It’s a book for anyone who has secluded themselves in headphones, pressed play, and heard themselves singing back in someone else’s voice. It’s a tribute to A Tribe Called Quest and a tribute to the power music has to grow with the listener. It’s illuminating for fans of the group, but even hip-hop novices will be moved by Abdurraqib’s book. Go Ahead in the Rain further functions as a pocket history of a hip-hop golden age, illustrating Tribe’s importance through collaborators and rivals. Tribe’s albums, infused with the jazz from their own parents’ record crates, were among the few hip-hop works approved by Abdurraqib’s parents in an era where media scaremongering around N.W.A. Pedro Pascal Lists A Tribe Called Quest, Pharcyde As Favorite RappersĪbdurraqib ambitiously blends the universal and the personal: the first chapter traces the roots of hip-hop and jazz back to rhythms preserved by enslaved Africans in the Americas, and the author crystalizes those centuries of history into a story of his father rebuking a micro-aggressive middle school jazz teacher.
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