Electric Relaxation

Electric Relaxation

Infobox Single
Name = Electric Relaxation


Caption =
Artist = A Tribe Called Quest
from Album = Midnight Marauders
A-side =
B-side =
Released = 1993
Format = Digital download, 12" maxi single
Recorded =
Genre = Hip-hop
Length = 4:04
Label = Jive Records
Writer =
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "Award Tour"
(1993)
This single = "Electric Relaxation"
(1993)
Next single = "Oh My God"
(1994)
Misc = Listen
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title=Electric Relaxation
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Electric Relaxation was the second single from A Tribe Called Quest's third album "Midnight Marauders". It contains samples from "Mystic Brew" by Ronnie Foster.

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.

Trivia

*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.

*Kanye West has a cover of Electric Relaxation on his mixtape, Freshmen Adjustment. It features rapper Consequence, who is Q-Tip's cousin, and is produced by A Tribe Called Quest.

*Marco Polo has a cover of Electric Relaxation on his album, Port Authority. It features J*Davey and the lyrics are reworked from the female perspective.


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