6/6/2023 0 Comments Go ahead in the rain book![]() ![]() Noting the band’s wide-ranging samples-Art Blakey, Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone-he explains that “The Tribe was one of the first groups to repurpose a long line of sound that our parents, and perhaps their parents, were in love with.” He describes his experience trying to find himself as a seventh-grader in Ohio listening to hip-hop on a Walkman and appreciating the band’s willingness to tread “a thin line of weirdness.” In high school, he got by with a crew of friends whose quick wit and music knowledge gave them enough social cred to keep out of fights. Abdurraqib focuses on A Tribe Called Quest, a group that broke out from Queens, N.Y., in 1990. Poet Abdurraqib follows up his collection of music criticism They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us with an impassioned, incisive biography cum memoir arguing for hip-hop’s importance to the black youth of his generation. ![]()
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