Ep. 241 Names on Top of Names on Top of Names with Jonathan Abrams

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Today Jonathan Abrams joins The Stacks to discuss his third book The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop. In unpacking the massive undertaking, the NYT staff writer and sports reporter addresses what goes into crafting a good oral history, and why he wanted to tell this particular story now. Plus, we get into the best diss tracks and rap beefs of all time.

The Stacks Book Club selection for November is Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law. We will discuss the book on November 30th with Mariame Kaba.

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0:00.0	Do you know what sucks really bad?
0:02.3	Missing out on tickets to the biggest tour of the year.
0:06.8	Not Taylor Swift, not Beyonce, but the live in the stacks tour.
0:13.3	We have only three stops left, so you need to grab your tickets now before you have major
0:20.1	FOMO for the rest of your life.
0:22.7	I will be in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on Sunday, September 24th.
0:28.0	I will be in New York City with KSA layman on Monday, September 25th, and you can find
0:32.9	me for the last stop of the tour on Wednesday, October 18th, with a few special guests which
0:39.3	we will announce real, real soon.
0:42.2	I promise you a night of big laps, hot takes, and more bookish conversation than you could
0:47.6	possibly imagine.
0:49.8	Tickets are selling fast, so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour and get them before they're gone.
0:57.5	And I can't wait to see you live in the stacks.
1:10.3	Welcome to the stacks of podcast about books and the people who read them.
1:13.1	I'm your host Tracey Thomas, and today we welcome Jonathan Abrams to the show.
1:17.1	Jonathan is a New York Times sports reporter and a former staff writer for the LA Times
1:21.0	and ESPN's now-defunct Grantland.
1:23.9	He is the author of a brand new book called The Come Up and Oral History of the Rise of
1:27.8	Hip Hop.
1:28.8	You might also know Jonathan's book about the wire called All the Pieces Matter.
1:33.5	In his new book The Come Up, Jonathan dives into the history of hip hop as told by the people
1:37.2	who lived it.
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