Copyright © 2019 by Hanif Abdurraqib

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The author would like to thank Cheryl Boyce-Taylor for generously granting permission to excerpt from “A Woman Speaks” and reprint in full “Devouring the Light, 1968.”

“Do Not Forget Old Friends” by Leonard Cohen, collected in Selected Poems: 1956–1968. Copyright © 1974 Leonard Cohen, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Abdurraqib, Hanif, author.

Title: Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest / Hanif Abdurraqib.

Description: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018031799

ISBN 978-1-4773-1648-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4773-1843-0 (library e-book)

ISBN 978-1-4773-1844-7 (non-library e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Tribe Called Quest (Musical group) | Rap musicians—United States—Biography.

Classification: LCC ML421.T762 W55 2019 | DDC 782.421649092/2—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018031799

doi:10.7560/316481