In the beginning before the beginning, there were drums, and hymns, and a people carried here."Ībdurraqib unspools history from here, carrying the reader through centuries of African-American music-making in a capacious few pages that end with the 1990 release of A Tribe Called Quest's first album, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. Like any good origin story, poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib's Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest begins in the beginning: "In the beginning, somewhere south of anywhere I come from, lips pressed the edge of a horn. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Go Ahead in the Rain Subtitle Notes to a Tribe Called Quest Author Hanif Abdurraqib
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