I have so many songs that I need to listen to after this book.
Abdurraqib's writing is poetry and he reads it wonderfully and the light touch of speaking the interstitial and comment material the way a musician talks between songs is just so beautifully done. The way he writes about music can make me fall in love with a song I have never heard and might not even like. But I love it in that moment. And then when he talks about crushes and love and loss. And racism and fear and pain and going on. It's such a glorious tapestry and it's a book of essays by a poet which makes it not poetry, but also not not poetry.