Le 1er février 2019, Hanif Abdurraqib sortait le livre Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest. Il a été finaliste pour le prix Kirkus et dans la longue liste du Prix national du livre de non-fiction. On February 1, 2019, Hanif Abdurraqib released the book Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest. He was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and in the long list of the National Book Award for Nonfiction .