Before Detroit gave the world Motown, techno, and hip-hop, it gave the world something harder to name: a feeling that music made in basements and backrooms and borrowed spaces could become the soundtrack to an entire generation. That is the story Living for the City is here to tell, and nobody alive is better equipped to tell it than Hanif Abdurraqib.
MacArthur Fellow. New York Times bestselling author. Hanif brings his singular voice to a new video podcast series that goes inside the streets, venues, and neighborhoods where iconic sounds are born, talking with the artists, DJs, producers, and community architects who built these movements from the ground up.
Season One is Detroit. Eight episodes. The full arc of how one city became the unlikely origin point for some of the most influential music ever made, told by the people who were actually there. This is not a music history lesson. This is a front-row seat to the moments that mattered.
Living for the City premieres May 13th.
