"Electric Relaxtion"
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 single 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. Image File history File links Electricrelaxation. ... A Tribe Called Quest is an influential rap group of the 1990s. ... Midnight Marauders is an alternative hip hop album by A Tribe Called Quest, released on November 9, 1993 (see 1993 in music). ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The 12-inch [30 cm] single gramophone record gained popularity with the advent of disco music in the 1970s. ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Jive Records is a major American record label that specializes in producing and releasing pop and hip hop music. ... A Tribe Called Quest is an influential rap group of the 1990s. ... Award Tour was the first single by A Tribe Called Quests third album Midnight Marauders and features Trugoy from De La Soul. ... Oh My God was the third single from A Tribe Called Quests third album Midnight Marauders. ... A Tribe Called Quest is an influential rap group of the 1990s. ... Midnight Marauders is an alternative hip hop album by A Tribe Called Quest, released on November 9, 1993 (see 1993 in music). ...

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.

• The lyrics to the unintelligible hook are "Relax yourself girl/ Please set-tle down"

• This song is referenced in the lyrics of The Roots' "Lazy Afternoon", a track from the album Do You Want More?!!!??!

• This song is featured in an episode of the television show Scrubs episode 107, where Dr. Turk is seen doing surgery on a patient and dancing out to the song a little.

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