![]() ![]() With the song, the trio poignantly explore ideas of race (“You can be a black man and lose all your soul/ You can be white and groove but don’t crap the role”) amid some truly inventive and genre-shaping wordplay (“See, lyrically I’m Mario Andretti on the MoMo/Ludicrously speedy, or infectious with the slow-mo”). Also, a little help from De La Soul on the chorus doesn’t hurt their fun-loving cause, either.Īs funky as it may be, there’s more being delivered under the shiny exterior, like a rap game Trojan horse. It’s got the beatnik jazz roots courtesy of some subtle electric piano, a solid sense of rhythm, clever if not leisurely interplay on the mic between Q-Tip and Phife, and an omnipresent sense of laid-back cool. Apart from being the record’s lead single, “Award Tour” embodies everything that works about the Tribe formula. ![]()
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