Title: A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders
Year/Genre: 1993, East Coast Hip-Hop
Condition: New

Cultural Facts:

1. Recorded by the Queens group at the height of the Native Tongues movement, blending street-level stories with abstract, Afrocentric humor.

2. The cover art features a crowd of Black radio DJs and rap figures, nodding to the community of hosts who kept underground hip-hop on the air.

3. Released the same year as Wu-Tang Clan’s debut, it represents the jazzy, laid-back branch of New York rap growing alongside harder street styles.

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