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"'''Electric Relaxation'''" is the second single from ]'s third album '']''. "'''Electric Relaxation'''" is the first single from ]'s third album '']''.


The song was featured as the opening theme song for ]'s black sitcom '']'', for the first two seasons. The song was featured as the opening theme song for ]'s black sitcom '']'', for the first two seasons.

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1993 single by A Tribe Called Quest
"Electric Relaxation"
Single by A Tribe Called Quest
from the album Midnight Marauders
B-side"Midnight"
ReleasedJuly 1993
Recorded1993
GenreHip hop, jazz rap
Length
  • 3:45 (single)
  • 4:04 (album)
LabelJive
Songwriter(s)Kamaal Fareed, Ronnie Foster, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Malik Taylor
Producer(s)A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Quest singles chronology
"Award Tour"
(1993) 		"Electric Relaxation"
(1993) 		"Oh My God"
(1994)

"Electric Relaxation" is the first single from A Tribe Called Quest's third album Midnight Marauders.

The song was featured as the opening theme song for The WB's black sitcom The Wayans Bros., for the first two seasons.

Background

In a conversation with XXL, Phife Dawg revealed that the beat was created in his grandmother's basement by Q-Tip:

I just remember coming home from somewhere—my grandmother gave him a key, the whole nine, he used to just go in and do his thing—I came home from some type of trip and I walked in the kitchen, and you know, he's in the basement and you could hear the music coming up, and all I heard was that. I didn't even say hello to my grandmother or whoever was in the house, I was just like, "Hold on!" and went downstairs. "Yo, what the hell is that?!" He was like, "Yo, that shit is crazy, right?" And it just became what it is now  ... On that record, he wrote my lines and I wrote his—actually, we wrote our own lines, and when we recorded, we traded. That's why the whole back and forth, you know what I mean?

Charts

Charts (1994) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 65
U.S. Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 2
U.S. Hot R&B Singles 38
U.S. Hot Rap Singles 13

References

  1. "Phife Breaks Down His Ten Favorite A Tribe Called Quest Songs". XXL. November 8, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
  2. Midnight Marauders > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles Allmusic. Accessed on October 10, 2010.
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