Hanif Abdurraqib

You know, we're filming this and recording this in June.

It's like a massive heat wave that has gripped the city.

And last night my neighborhood lost power, like my street lost power.

And it's a funny thing happens when you lose power, at least for me, where I had like 10 solid minutes of being like, maybe this is just affecting me.

But I like gradually like peeked out my window and saw one of my neighbors gathering in a gazebo in the middle of our street.

So it was wonderful in a sense to go out to this gathering point and have everyone kind of like, we all don't have power.

What are the most immediate needs?

If I were to say, I am just like a small speck in this grand universe, I would very easily and quickly fall into this individualism.

Instead of me saying, well, I step outside of my house and I see either a person or I see the results of a person's living reflected directly to me.

Why do you love Columbus so much?

I tend to think that my most joyful experiences living in Columbus are mirrored by the fact that people just talk to me in a way that is also familiar and comfortable.

We're in Spoon Cool Records in Columbus, Ohio.

It's my favorite record shop.

And Columbus is a great record town.

In every city I would stop on tour.

I would go digging.

I would go record shopping.

But it's kind of isolating.

I know my own taste.

Left to my own devices, I would just be delving through the crates in search of whatever would satiate and satisfy my own taste.