I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. Today I'm talking with author Marcus J. Moore about one of the

greatest groups of all time, De LaSalle. Marcus, welcome back to the show. We've had you on a couple

times. Always a pleasure to have you. Yeah, thanks for having me. I appreciate you. So we talked about

your book about Kendrick Lamar, which is great with Kendrick back on top.

It's a good time to go back and check out that book by Marcus, if you haven't read it already.

But today we're here to talk about a different book, High and Rising, a book about de la Sol.

It's amazing that there hasn't been a book about this incredible group before.

It's long overdue.

This is one of the greatest hip-hop groups of all time.

Greatest groups of all time, period.

Yeah, exactly.

Even when I was researching and when I first had the idea that I wanted to write a book

about De La So, my first thought was, oh, well, clearly I can't do that because there's already been a book

written. And then, much to my surprise, there wasn't one. So I don't know. It's fascinating how

there hasn't been a book written about De La Sol, but I also think it's because, and I can't take

credit for this idea. I did a talk the other night. And the gentleman said this where hip hop is still

fairly young. It's still a fairly young genre. Whereas other genres, you can read a million

jazz books. You can read a million rock books. But you can't read a lot of hip hop books because

we're just now getting to the point where our faves growing up are getting to the day-loss status

where you can write about them as legends.

Hip-hop feels so established in so many ways, and it is a 50-year-old genre,

but there's a lot of canonization and catch-up still to be done.

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