Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

by Hanif Abdurraqib

And the thing about road trips is that nothing at the end of the journey can live up to the anticipation of the unseen destination once we arrive there,

“Build Relationships where Education and Enlightenment Dominate.”

the music being sampled was rooted in past political moments, finding its way to newer political narratives by being pulled tight over a track where MCs would rap about their own desires for a fractured world. Sampling created a dialogue between past and present and helped bridge a gap between the music a rapper was first introduced to and the music they desperately wanted to share with the new world.