For others, Go Ahead in the Rain is a starting point to absorb the group’s musical catalog, while being guided by a valid consumer. The 206 page book commences with a somewhat weary history lesson about musical traditions slaves carried from West Africa to America before taking readers to his childhood in Columbus where A Tribe Called Quest’s music was one of the few hip-hop catalogs allowed in his parents home.ĭepending on one’s age, A Tribe’s story, which spans over three decades, of inner-turmoil, and its Native Tongue era, will serve as a walk down memory lane. It’s vital moments like the former, about growth and discovery through the music of ATCQ that fill Go Ahead in the Rain. This was the jazz I had been looking for,” writes Abdurraqib. “Once I placed the trumpet into its case for the last time and tucked it into a closet somewhere, I played The Low End Theory for months on end, wondering if I’d ever stop. As a kid in Columbus, OH., Abdurraqib unenthusiastically took trumpet lessons, at the behest of his father, who was a jazz musician. In Abdurraqib’s previous work, They Can’t Kills Us Until They Kill Us, the National Book Award winner packed loads of emotion into tightly compacted sentences, as he does here in Go Ahead in the Rain. It’s Abdurraqib’s individualized narrative, and connection to A Tribe that guides Go Ahead in the Rain.
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