“Award Tour” by A Tribe Called Quest

"Award Tour" kicked off the campaign for Midnight Marauders, A Tribe Called Quest's third album, in 1993. It's built on a Weldon Irvine sample, "We Gettin' Down" off his 1975 record Spirit Man, and Irvine shares the writing credit with Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. The group produced it themselves, recording and mixing with Bob Power.

Trugoy of De La Soul, their Native Tongues brethren, turns up on the hook, which becomes a roll call of cities and states from New York City to Tokyo to Detroit, and the second verse finds room for the Atlanta Braves and the New York Yankees. It went on to top Billboard's dance singles chart and remains the highest-charting Tribe single on the Hot 100, even if that peak was only number 47.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.