![]() ![]() The book’s function is multifaceted: a history, a commentary, a love letter, a memoir. ![]() In “Go Ahead in the Rain,” Abdurraqib threads together all these thoughts using the keen needle that is A Tribe Called Quest. ![]() Both him and I are self-described ATCQ fans, and while our backgrounds can’t be any more disparate - Black boy from urban Ohio who blossomed alongside the golden age of hip hop and white girl born and bred in varying suburbs who rediscovered that era as the internet made her more musically conscious - this strand of fandom has lassoed us together. When Hanif Abdurraqib thinks of A Tribe Called Quest, he thinks of his father’s reverence for jazz, sour cherry candies he bought on a road trip and Tony, the bootleg “CD Man” in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.Ībdurraqib thinks of a lot of things I have never thought of, but we are still united in the fact that when we think of A Tribe Called Quest, we think of a lot of thoughts. ![]()
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