RaveFull Stop\"When Hanif Abdurraqib writes about music, he writes about its potential to bridge generations and peers, and he builds his narratives from the seeds of his own feelings ... The pleasure of Abdurraqib’s writing — whether the subject is Whitney Houston or Q-Tip — emanates from the singular way he experiences music. He can take one note and extrapolate an entire psychic history, both of his own world and the world of the musician. He also, literally, feels music with a level of detail and sensitivity far beyond the average listener ... [Abdurraqib] takes detours several times throughout Go Ahead in the Rain, using moments in the history of A Tribe Called Quest as openings into his own personal memoir or the cultural saga of Black America. It is an active and enthralling way of telling a history; no story is a closed loop, and the narrative’s center shifts with each new point of entry ... A Tribe Called Quest, then, is a tour de force subject for the writer, because their story is as compelling as Abdurraqib’s way of telling it. A Tribe Called Quest’s music and Abdurraqib’s writing are hands lifting the foot of the other up to the highest echelons of storytelling. Abdurraqib is a poetic and sonic writer, so reading his work is also an act of listening and feeling his timing.\
