A New York Times Best Seller 2019 National Book Award Longlist,
Nonfiction 2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, Nonfiction A February
IndieNext Pick Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed,
Nylon, The A. V. Club, CBC Books, and The Rumpus, and a Winter's
Most Anticipated Book by Vanity Fair and The Week Starred Reviews:
Kirkus and Booklist "Warm, immediate and intensely personal."-New
York Times 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. 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. 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. The result is
as ambitious and genre-bending as the rap group itself. 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. Their work is placed in the context of the broader
rap landscape of the 1990s, one upended by sampling laws that
forced a reinvention in production methods, the East Coast-West
Coast rivalry that threatened to destroy the genre, and some record
labels' shift from focusing on groups to individual MCs. Throughout
the narrative Abdurraqib connects the music and cultural history to
their street-level impact. Whether he's remembering The Source
magazine cover announcing the Tribe's 1998 breakup or writing
personal letters to the group after bandmate Phife Dawg's death,
Abdurraqib seeks the deeper truths of A Tribe Called Quest; truths
that-like the low end, the bass-are not simply heard in the head,
but felt in the chest.
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