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4.61 AVERAGE
4.61 AVERAGE
sometimes you pick up a book at the right moment where it'll impact you the most. this book incidentally became a source of comfort this past month. im eager to pick up more of Abdurraqib's work
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
sad
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
music, poetry, race, loss, sadness, and joy are intertwined beautifully. A once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I should have dnf’d it to be honest, this just wasnt for me as both a non-American person and someone whose musical interests are in different genres.
It’s not bad, on the contrary Abdurraqib is a very good writer, I enjoyed his prose a lot but I just did not know most of the music references which rendered more than half of the essays just kinda unreadable to me.
Some of the essays were extremely strong though, so I would recommend this to those that are more in the know with 90s and 00s American rap and punk scenes (and also a little bit of emo too).
It’s not bad, on the contrary Abdurraqib is a very good writer, I enjoyed his prose a lot but I just did not know most of the music references which rendered more than half of the essays just kinda unreadable to me.
Some of the essays were extremely strong though, so I would recommend this to those that are more in the know with 90s and 00s American rap and punk scenes (and also a little bit of emo too).
hanif abdurraqib's transcends subject in a way i've seen few modern authors do. it didn't matter to me what artist he was writing about—if i knew them, if i had my own thoughts about them, if i had personal moments with their work—because the writing spoke to me at every step of the way, regardless. it spoke to the most human part of myself, and i found such a communal feeling in that—as if it wasn't just abdurraqib's sharing pieces of his thought and life; somehow, i was sharing something with him, too.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced