Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group’s history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself. Thank You 4 Your Service, which arrived when fans needed it most, in the aftermath of the 2016 election. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here. How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. "Warm, immediate and intensely personal."- New York Times And a Winter's Most Anticipated Book by Vanity Fair and The Week "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, Nylon, The A.
Throughout the narrative Abdurraqib connects the music and cultural history to their street-level impact, seeking deeper truths that are not simply heard in the head, but felt in the chest. Their work is placed in the context of the broader rap landscape of the 1990s, one upended by sampling laws, the East Coast-West Coast rivalry that threatened to destroy the genre, and some record labels' shift from focusing on groups to individual MCs. Abdurraqib traces the Tribe's creative career, from their early days as part of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues, through their first three classic albums, to their eventual breakup and long hiatus. Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group's history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here.Thank You 4 Your Service, which arrived when fans needed it most, in the aftermath of the 2016 election. How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders.
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