Hip-hop in this era was, I realized in reading, a root system. This aspect of the book is not diligent or complete, but it’s not really intended to be. It’s also a messy, wide-ranging history of hip-hop during its first renaissance in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Yet the book is more than just a summary and analysis of one rap group’s career. Spotify supplied me with the actual music, but Abdurraqib supplied me with guidance, and a year-by-year recap of Tribe’s endeavors. Go Ahead in the Rain forces an education in A Tribe Called Quest that I might not have had otherwise. I have no excuse.) I wanted to read the book because I’m a fan of Abdurraqib’s, and because I thought reading it would be a chance to learn about Tribe. The truth is, I had heard only one song by A Tribe Called Quest when I picked up Go Ahead in the Rain, Hanif Abdurraqib ’s monograph on the group. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest / Hanif Abdurraqib / University of Texas Press / Febru/ Paperback / $16.95 / 215 pp / 978-1-4773-1648-1
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