![]() ![]() ![]() He interrogates Q-Tip on issues of brotherhood, understanding the complexities of the leader’s relationship to Phife in relation to his own brother. He considers an album’s quality in the 90s to be intimately entwined with its ability to be played through without skips, so that he would not have to remove his gloves in the Midwestern winter or worry about someone on the school bus asking to hear what he was listening to. ![]() Along with frequent personal letters addressed directly to each member of Tribe, Abdurraqib looks deeply into his own history in order to reveal the unseen-or unheard-layers of the music, interweaving personal history with that of A Tribe Called Quest, hip-hop, the 90s, and black culture writ-large. Go Ahead in the Rain is perhaps the first notable hip-hop book-at least by an author who does not rap or play drums (here’s looking at Questlove)-to seamlessly blend memoir with sociocultural history.Ībdurraqib seems to know every story there is to tell about A Tribe Called Quest that said, he never gets so deep into the group’s mythos that he forgets himself. Writings on hip-hop are perhaps best known through outlets that now run primarily online, but in the genre’s relatively young history, there are already a wealth of books both about and by the artists of the genre. ![]()
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