Music Class: A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation

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* CLASSIC QUEST:dance: Funny how many of the die hard Quest fans STILL don't know the hook to this song :lol:

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[Hook]
Relax yourself girl, please set-tle down

[Verse 1: Q-Tip, Phife Dawg]

[Q-Tip]
Honey, check it out, you got me mesmerized
With your black hair and your fat-ass thighs
Street poetry is my everyday
But yo, I gotta stop when you trot my way
If I was working at the club you would not pay
Aiyyo, my man Phife Diggy, he got something to say

[Phife Dawg]
I like 'em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican or Haitian
Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu Nation
Told you in the jam that we can get down
Now let's knock the boots like the group H-Town
You got BBD all on your bedroom wall
But I'm above the rim and this is how I ball
A gritty little something on the New York street
This is how I represent over this here beat
Talking 'bout you
Yo, I took you out
But sex was on my mind for the whole damn route
My mind was in a frenzy and a horny state
But I couldn't drop dimes cause you couldn't relate

[Hook]

[Verse 2: Q-Tip, Phife Dawg]

[Q-Tip]
Stretch out your legs, let me make you bawl
Drive you insane, drive you up the wall
Staring at your dome-piece, very strong
Stronger than pride, stronger than Teflon
Take you on the ave and you buy me links
Now I wanna pound the poontang until it stinks
You can be my mama and I'll be your boy

[Phife]
Original rude boy, never am I coy
You can be a shorty in my ill convoy
Not to come across as a thug or a hood
But hon, you got the goods, like Madelyne Woods
By the way, my name's Malik
The Five-Foot Freak
Let's say we get together by the end of the week
She simply said, "No", labelled me a ho
I said, "How you figure?" "My friends told me so"
I hate when silly groupies wanna run they yap
Word to God, hon, I don't get down like that

[Q-Tip]
I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak
Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my jeep
Keep it on the down, yo, we keep it discrete
See, I'm not the type of kid to have my biz in the streets

[Phife]
If my mom don't approve, then I'll just elope
Let me save the little man from inside the boat
Let me hit it from the back, girl I won't catch a hernia
Bust off on your couch, now you got Seaman's Furniture

[Q-Tip]
Shaheed, Phife and the Extra P
Stacy Beadle, PJ and my man L.G
They know the Abstract is really soul on ice
The character is of men, never ever of mice
Shorty let me tell you about my only vice
It has to do with lots of loving and it ain't nothing nice
 
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Midnight Marauders and Low End Theory are still #1 & 1a regarding best group albums IMO. This track will be great forever.

"Let me hit it from the back girl, I wont catch a hernia.
Bust off on your couch now you got seaman's(semen's) furniture."

Man, listen.

:yes: Yessir :yes:
 

playahaitian

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Midnight Marauders and Low End Theory are still #1 & 1a regarding best group albums IMO. This track will be great forever.

"Let me hit it from the back girl, I wont catch a hernia.
Bust off on your couch now you got seaman's(semen's) furniture."

Man, listen.

:yes: Yessir :yes:

one of the BEST punchlines ever...
 

Give Me 3ft.

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one of my favorite atcq songs!

didnt need the bonus videos! i knew one of the chicks in this video.
 

massdagod

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Since this song came out, I can literally say Ive listened to this song at like 9,000 times....

I love this track....

That beat is Genius.. Q-Tip is a fuckin' Genius for this shit...


the Flow from Phife and Tip on this joint was so sick.


This was the Pinnacle of A Tribe Called Quests Genius and Popularity right here.

Timeless shit.

 

massdagod

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Since this song came out, I can literally say Ive listened to this song at like 9,000 times....

I love this track....

That beat is Genius.. Q-Tip is a fuckin' Genius for this shit...


the Flow from Phife and Tip on this joint was so sick.


This was the Pinnacle of A Tribe Called Quests Genius and Popularity right here.

Timeless shit.

 

playahaitian

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Since this song came out, I can literally say Ive listened to this song at like 9,000 times....

I love this track....

That beat is Genius.. Q-Tip is a fuckin' Genius for this shit...


the Flow from Phife and Tip on this joint was so sick.


This was the Pinnacle of A Tribe Called Quests Genius and Popularity right here.

Timeless shit.


I feel like the documentary was a disappointment because it NEVER captured the science and magic of songs like this...

not only the influence on a generation and hip hop as a whole but what REALLY went into crafting a masterwork like this.

I hope someone else (Spike Lee preferably) tries to really do ATCQ and by extension the Native Tongues crew justice.
 

THE DRIZZY

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Classic track from a great era gone by. I miss hip hop like this. Realistic and not some fantasy high rolling drug kingpin fantasies.
 

massdagod

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I feel like the documentary was a disappointment because it NEVER captured the science and magic of songs like this...

not only the influence on a generation and hip hop as a whole but what REALLY went into crafting a masterwork like this.

I hope someone else (Spike Lee preferably) tries to really do ATCQ and by extension the Native Tongues crew justice.
I agree... they should have dove into the genius behind the music..

I liked the part where Busta was commenting on God Live Through...
 
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DEETZ181

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my favorite tribe track.:dance:


i like the unwrapped version.


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I remember having an argument with this dude over this song. I was telling him it was: "Relax yourself girl, please settle down.", and he was saying it was: "Relax yourself, world peace I command." One of the dumbest arguments I've ever been involved in!
 

playahaitian

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I remember having an argument with this dude over this song. I was telling him it was: "Relax yourself girl, please settle down.", and he was saying it was: "Relax yourself, world peace I command." One of the dumbest arguments I've ever been involved in!


Uncle Chuck I think this is NUMBER ONE in hip hop lines nobody understood...it took me YEARS to figure it out and honestly...

I think I was WAY happier before google...

because now all these classic car trips, subway, house party arguments we use to have?

Can be shut down at a touch of a button.
 
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