Award Tour

"Award Tour" is a song by A Tribe Called Quest, released as the first single from their third album Midnight Marauders. 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.

Appearances and covers

• The song was featured in the video games Thrasher: Skate and Destroy and MLB 08: The Show and Madden NFL 12.
• A portion of the song was performed by Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.^[1]
• A portion of the song was featured in the song World Tour by DC hip-hop artist Wale on his 2010 debut album Attention Deficit.

Charts

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