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Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the A Tribe Called Quest’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. More about this book >
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, nominated for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, named a best book of 2017 by NPR; Pitchfork; O, The Oprah Magazine; Chicago Tribune; Slate; Esquire; GQ; and Publisher’s Weekly; among others. He is a Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow, a poetry editor at Muzzle, and a member of the poetry collective Echo Hotel with poet/essayist Eve Ewing. Abdurraqib has multiple forthcoming books including the new collection of poems A Fortune For Your Disaster and a history of Black performance in the United States titled They Don’t Dance No Mo’.
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