![]() “ Go Ahead in the Rain is more than just an homage to A Tribe Called Quest…it's more like a reckoning. “Even those who know little about the music will learn much of significance here, perhaps learning how to love it in the process.” It's a bold conceit, but if the book loses a bit of reserved objectivity in the process, it gains much more: an emotional grounding for why the group was so important to the author, and, by extension, why their music should matter to readers, too.” “Abdurraqib's book doesn't attempt an arm's length, scholarly approach to analyzing the group and its music instead, Abdurraqib speaks from his own experiences, often in the form of questioning or appreciative open letters to members of the band. “arm, immediate, and intensely personal.This lush and generous book is a call to pay proper respects not just to a sound but to a feeling.” He is a five-tool writer, slipping out of the timeline to deliver vivid, memoiristic splashes as well as letters he's crafted to directly address the central players, dead and living.” ![]() ![]() “iveting and poetic…Abdurraqib's gift is his ability to flip from a wide angle to a zoom with ease. ![]() GO AHEAD IN THE RAIN: NOTES TO A TRIBE CALLED QUEST ![]()
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