Just really incredible. Abdurraqib is so insightful, and like half of the sentences in this are punches to the throat in the best of ways. The first four essays alone would give this book five stars, but the rest of the book keeps going, wades through all this time--it's also a piece of historical writing in some ways, on the precipice of the 2016 election and subsequent aftermath, without painting that moment as being the only bad thing happening at the time. His love of and appreciation for music in so many forms is incredible; he manages to weave together these stories to make his points that are so broad in their connections and yet make so much sense all at once. I'm seriously in awe. I want to buy this book (I borrowed it from the library) so I can mark it up properly and really dig into it, but it's still an incredible read even just reading it and trying to carefully copy out the parts that hit me in the moment.