Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest

"Hanif Abdurraqib’s Go Ahead in the Rain is a brilliant meditation on race, music and writing. It’s also a history of hip-hop and an extended reflection on one of hip-hop’s most legendary groups: A Tribe Called Quest. Abdurraqib synthesizes the personal and the critical as he writes bracingly about the ambitious aesthetic of Tribe’s music and his personal affinity with the contrasting personas of the group’s principal members: the vulnerable, dynamic Phife Dawg and the cool, visionary Q-Tip. I loved Go Ahead in the Rain because it’s about what it means to take refuge in music and also what it means to break out of that refuge through music."