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Award Tour

"Award Tour"
Award Tour Cover.jpg
Single by A Tribe Called Quest, Trugoy
from the album Midnight Marauders
B-side "The Chase, Pt. 2"
Released November 1993
Format CD, 12" maxi single
Recorded 1993
Genre Alternative hip hop
Length 3:46
Label Jive Records
Songwriter(s) Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, Weldon Irvine, Ali Shaheed Jones-Muhammad, Malik Izaak Taylor
Producer(s) A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Quest, Trugoy singles chronology
"Hot Sex"
(1992)
"Award Tour"
(1993)
"Electric Relaxation"
(1994)
"Hot Sex"
(1992)
"Award Tour"
(1993)
"Electric Relaxation"
(1994)

"Award Tour" is a song by A Tribe Called Quest, released as the first single from their third album Midnight Marauders. It features rapper Trugoy on the chorus, from the fellow Native Tongues group De La Soul. It contains a sample of "We Gettin' Down" by Weldon Irvine, from his 1975 album Spirit Man. The B-side of the single is the original version of the Midnight Marauders track "The Chase, Pt. 2", which notably features the first known verse by future Tribe collaborator Consequence. The song remains Tribe's highest charting single to date, experiencing large success in America and overseas.

The second half of the song's chorus calls out names of cities and states in this order: New York City, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, St. John, Chinatown, Spokane, London, Tokyo, Houston, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Dallas, South Carolina, Maryland, New Orleans and Detroit. In addition, one line in the second verse mentions two Major League Baseball teams, the Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees.


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