Tag: Go Ahead in the Rain

Hanif Abdurraqib’s 140 Word John Starks Profile.

December 19th, 2021

What I like about Starks is that he’s willing to fight. He got kicked outta college for stealing some kid’s stereo equipment. Then he went to another college and got kicked out for smoking weed in his dorm room and listening to rap. He worked at a grocery store while averaging eleven points per game at one college, and then went to another. He didn’t even get drafted. Had to work his way up to the NBA through the minor leagues, where they pay you next to nothing. And now, here he is. He’s the quintessential New York player. He has the city’s architecture built directly into his style of play. He endures, and it isn’t romantic. It’s peppered with drugs and theft and jail time. But if there’s a fight to be had, you want him next to you.
Go Ahead in the Rain, The Low End, pg 54.

Can one write a powerful, touching, and insightful player profile in only 140 words? Hanif Abdurraqib can.

Three words from this piece that hang in my mind are:

Quintessential

endures

peppered

Be sure to check out Hanif’s archival project 68to05.
Listening to A Tribe Called Quest’s The Love Movement in Fall

November 28th, 2021

I listened to The Love Movement longingly on a school bus in the early fall in Ohio, where the leaves began to fight against their inevitable departure. By the tree that hung over my bus stop, the leaves slowly began to gather around the tree’s base, as if to say We did our best. We’ll try again next time.
Go Ahead in the Rain, The Source Cover

Autumn in literature rolls into Monday.

Hanif Abdurraqib reminisces on listening to A Tribe Called Quest’s The Love Moment in the fall of 98.

Tag: Go Ahead in the Rain

Hanif Abdurraqib’s 140 Word John Starks Profile.

Listening to A Tribe Called Quest’s The Love Movement in Fall