Electric Relaxation
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| Single by A Tribe Called Quest | ||
| from the album Midnight Marauders | ||
| Released | 1993 | |
| Format | Digital download, 12" maxi single | |
| Genre | Hip-hop | |
| Length | 4:04 | |
| Label | Jive Records | |
| A Tribe Called Quest singles chronology | ||
| "Award Tour" (1993) |
"Electric Relaxation" (1993) |
"Oh My God" (1994) |
Electric Relaxation was the second single from A Tribe Called Quest's third album Midnight Marauders. It was the first and only video by the group to be completely filmed in black and white.
[edit] Music video
The video starts off with a wide view of Queens, as we eventually see the group riding in a taxi on their way to a diner. Q-Tip and Phife trade rhymes in the taxi for the song's entire first verse. While riding Q-tip looks out the window and sees a woman who he is fond of, and she looks back. Then while standing by a few fountains in a park, Q-Tip sees her again. Soon the group end up at a diner and are ready to order. Everyone in the diner is seen laughing, bobbing their heads to the beat, and having a good time, while Phife talks to his friends about a bad event he had with this girl he liked. ("She simply said 'No,'/labeled me a hoe/I said, "How ya figure?"/"My friends tell me so!") Then, Q-tip spots the woman from earlier through the diner window. Then it turns out that the girl has been following Q-Tip the whole time, and the video ends with her outside the diner.
[edit] Trivia
- The lyrics to the unintelligible hook are "Relax yourself girl/ Please settle down"
- For a while this song was the theme song to The Wayans Bros. But was later replaced with an anonymous beat.
- This song is featured in the Vince Vaughn-Jon Favreau movie Made.
- This song is featured in an episode of the television show Scrubs episode 7, where Dr. Turk is seen doing surgery on a patient.
- This song is referenced in the lyrics of The Roots' "Lazy Afternoon", a track from the album Do You Want More?!!!??!
- The Diner they eat at in the music video is the Square Diner. Located at the corner of Leonard and Verick St.
[edit] External links
| A Tribe Called Quest |
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| Members: Q-Tip | Phife Dawg | Ali Shaheed Muhammad | Jarobi White |
| Albums: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm | The Low End Theory | Midnight Marauders | Beats, Rhymes and Life | The Love Movement |
| Compilations: The Anthology | Hits, Rarities, and Remixes |
| Singles: "Bonita Applebum" | "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo" | "Can I Kick It?" | "Check the Rhime" | "Jazz (We've Got)" | "Scenario" | "Hot Sex" | "Award Tour" | "Electric Relaxation" | "Oh My God" | "1nce Again" | "Stressed Out" | "Find a Way" | "Like It Like That" |
| See also: Native Tongues Posse | The Ummah |
