Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Trugoy the Dove
Trugoy the Dove
Vocals
Ali Shaheed Jones-Muhammad
Ali Shaheed Jones-Muhammad
DJ
Phife Dawg
Phife Dawg
Vocals
Q-Tip
Q-Tip
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Kamaal Fareed
Kamaal Fareed
Songwriter
Ali Shaheed Jones-Muhammad
Ali Shaheed Jones-Muhammad
Songwriter
Malik Izaak Taylor
Malik Izaak Taylor
Songwriter
Weldon Irvine
Weldon Irvine
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Quest
Producer
Bob Power
Bob Power
Mixing Engineer
Brad Schmidt
Brad Schmidt
Assistant Engineer
Chris Flam
Chris Flam
Assistant Engineer
Eric Gast
Eric Gast
Assistant Engineer
George Spatta
George Spatta
Assistant Engineer
Gerard Julien
Gerard Julien
Assistant Engineer
Hoover Le
Hoover Le
Assistant Engineer
Patrick Derivaz
Patrick Derivaz
Assistant Engineer
Pete Christensen
Pete Christensen
Assistant Engineer
Tom Coyne
Tom Coyne
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

[Chorus]
We on award tour with Muhammad, my man (Right, true)
Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand (Right, true)
New York, NJ, N.C., VA (Right, true, right, true)
We on award tour with Muhammad, my man (Right, true)
Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand (Right, true)
Oaktown, L.A., San Fran, St. John (Right, true, right)
[Verse 1]
People, give your ears, so I be sublime
It's enjoyable to know you and the concubines
****, take off your coats, ladies, act like gems
Sit down, Indian style, as we recite these hymns
See, lyrically I'm Mario Andretti on the MOMO
Ludicrously speedy, or infectious with the slow-mo
Heard me in the '80s, J Beez on the promo
In my never-endin' quest to get the paper on the caper
But now, let me take it to the Queens side
I'm takin' it to Brooklyn side
All the residential Questers who invade the air
Hold up a second son, 'cause we almost there
You can be a black man and lose all your soul
You can be white and groove but don't crap the roll
See my shit is universal, if you got knowledge of dolo
Or delf, of self, see there's no one else
Who can drop it on the angle, acute at that
So, do that, do that, do-do-that-that-that (Come on)
Do that, do that, do-do that-that-that (Okay)
Do that, do that, do-do that-that-that
I'm buggin' out, but let me get back 'cause I'm wettin' ****
So run and tell the others 'cause we are the brothers
I learned how to build mics in my workshop class
So give me this award, and let's not make it the last
[Chorus]
We on award tour with Muhammad, my man (Right, true)
Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand (Right, true)
Chinatown, Spokane, London, Tokyo (Right, true, right, true)
We on award tour with Muhammad, my man (Right, true)
Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand (Right, true)
Houston, Delaware, DC, Dallas (Right, true, right, true)
[Verse 2]
Back in '89, I simply slid into place
Buddy, buddy, buddy all up in your face
A lot of kids was bustin' rhymes but they had no taste
Some said Quest was wack, but now is that the case?
I have a quest to have a mic in my hand
Without that, it's like Kryptonite and Superman
So Shaheed, come in with the sugar cuts
Phife Dawg's my name, but on stage, call me Dynomutt
When was the last time you heard the Phifer sloppy?
Lyrics anonymous, you'll never hear me copy
Top-notch, baby, never comin' less
Sky's the limit, you gots to believe up in Quest
Sit back, relax, get up out the path
If not that, here's the dancefloor, come move that ass
Non-believers, you can check the steps
I roll with Shaheed and the brother Abstract
**** know the time when Quest is in the jam
I never let a statue tell me how nice I am
Comin' with more hits than the Braves and the Yankees
Livin' mad fat like an Oversize Mampy
The wackest crews try to diss, it makes me laugh
When my track record's longer than a DC-20 aircraft
So, next time that you think you want somethin' here
Make somethin' def or take that garbage to St. Elsewhere
[Chorus]
We on award tour with Muhammad, my man (Right, true)
Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand (Right, true)
S.C., Maryland, New Orleans, Motown (Right, true, right, true)
We on award tour with Muhammad, my man (Right, true)
Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand (Right, true)
Chinatown, Spokane, London, Tokyo (Right, true, right, true)
[Chorus]
We on award tour with Muhammad, my man (Right, true)
Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand (Right, true)
Houston, Delaware, DC, Dallas (Right, true, right, true)
We on award tour with Muhammad, my man (Right, true)
Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand (Right, true)
New York, NJ, N.C., VA (Right, true)
[Outro]
Seven times out of ten, we listen to our music at night
Thus spawned the title of this program
The word "maraud" means to loot
In this case, we maraud for ears
Written by: Ali Shaheed Jones-Muhammad, John Davis, Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, Malik Izaak Taylor, Weldon Irvine
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