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CHICAGO â Hanif Abdurraqib doesnât exactly write about music.
I mean, yes, he writes about music, heâs written three acclaimed books (and many poems) about music; he has two podcasts about music; the Brooklyn Academy of Music recently named him guest curator-at-large. One of my favorite pandemic activities has been settling into his website Sixtyeight2ohfive, a kind of musical family tree/personal excavation project culled from Spotify playlists, and though I donât know if music was playing in the background all of those times heâs baked a cake on Instagram, probably.
Music, though, in the work of Hanif Abdurraqib, is more like a vehicle for getting closer to what it means to be feel joy, and history, and shame, and anger, and lonesomeness. The essay about Chance the Rapper that opens his first collection, âThey Canât Kill Us Until They Kill Usâ (2017), includes this: âEveryone, turn your eyes to the city you are told to imagine on the n