Ep. 138 Celebrating Black Artists with Marcus J. Moore
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Marcus J. Moore is a music journalist, the author of our November pick for The Stacks Book Club, The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America, and today’s guest. Marcus shares why he felt it was important to write about Kendrick Lamar now, how this book is more than just biography, and what music he recommends we all check out. There are no spoilers on this episode.
The Stacks Book Club selection for November is The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus J. Moore, we will discuss the book with Cole Cuchna on November 25th.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host |
| 0:12.3 | Tracy Thomas. Our guest today is Marcus |
| 0:15.2 | J. Moore. Marcus is the author of the Stacks Book Club November pick, The Butterfly Effect |
| 0:20.5 | how Kendrick Lamar ignited the soul of Black America. |
| 0:24.0 | We talked today with Marcus about why he wanted to tell Kendrick Lamar's story now. |
| 0:29.2 | His career in music writing and Marcus gives us some recommendations on music we should |
| 0:34.2 | definitely be listening to. Don't worry there are no spoilers on today's |
| 0:38.1 | episode. Great news, the Stacks finally has merch and you can get yourself some of our super cute gear by going to the Stax Podcast.com |
| 0:46.9 | slash shop. Also anyone who joins the Stax Pack in November gets a free audio book from our friends over at Libro FM and that's in addition to the |
| 0:56.2 | two for one deal that they offer for any listener of the show when they use the code the Stacks at |
| 1:00.9 | checkout. If you want to join the Stacks pack head to |
| 1:04.0 | Patreon.com slash the Stacks. I also always like to say an extra special thank you to |
| 1:09.3 | our newest members of the Stacks pack This week that includes Sonia Chen, Maggie, Laura |
| 1:15.2 | Marquez, Amelia Lewis, Stephanie Cristione, Alicia Monroe, Valerie Bresin, |
| 1:21.6 | Cindy Allman, Jamie Moore, and Alice Shanklin. |
| 1:25.2 | Thank you all so much and now without further ado, let's get to my conversation that is |
| 1:30.5 | spoiler free with Marcus J. Moore. |
| 1:34.0 | All right, everybody, I'm very excited. |
| 1:40.0 | Today I am here with Marcus J. Moore. |
| 1:42.0 | Marcus is the author of our November book club pick, |
| 1:45.3 | The Butterfly Effect How Kendrick Lamar |
| 1:47.8 | ignited the soul of Black America. |
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