![]() ![]() The book opens with the music of African slaves who “would use drums to communicate with each other, sending rhythmic messages that could not be decoded by Europeans” and then offers a short history of jazz starting with New Orleans cornet player, Buddy Bolden. ![]() In Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, Abdurraqib blends his talents as both culture critic and personal essayist for a meditation on perhaps the most influential hip-hop group from the genre’s sample-laden boom-bap era in the early to mid-’90s. I discovered Tribe in a different world than Hanif Abdurraqib: not in Columbus, Ohio, but Akron not on cassette tape, but a Greatest Hits CD stolen from the public library not as a black teenager realizing that Tribe’s jazz-imbued hip-hop is acceptable to play at home, but as a white 15-year-old suddenly on a mission to become a true-school turntablist in an environment where such a dream was laughable.įandom aside, this book is on point. ![]() As I write this review, I’m listening to “Award Tour” and nodding my head like I’m front row for A Tribe Called Quest’s 1993 Arsenio Hall performance under lavender stage lights. ![]()
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