Ep. 138 Celebrating Black Artists with Marcus J. Moore

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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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon

• Robbert Glasper

• Terrence Martin

• Herbie Hanock

• Pharoh Sanders

• Kanye West

• Drake

• The Pulitzer Prize

• Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By (Kendrick Lamar, 2018)

• Alright by Kendrick Lamar

• LOVE. ft. Zacari by Kendrick Lamar

• good kid, m.A.A.d. city (Kendrick Lamar, 2012)

• Boogie Down Productions

• Public Enemy

• MC Lyte

• Queen Latifah

• KRS-One

• Fight the Power by Public Enemy

• Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith

• Kawhi Leonard

• Miles Davis

• In a Silent Way (Miles Davis, 1969)

• Bitches Brew (Miles Davis, 1970)

• Universal Beings (Makaya McCraven, 2018)

• Everything's Fine (Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, 2018)

• Songs in the Key of Life (Stevie Wonder, 1976)

• Wisdom of Elders (Shabaka and the Ancestors, )

• Raphael Saadiq

• Dizzy Gillespie

• George Benson

• Anna Wise

• Hannibal Buress

• Go Ahead in the Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib

• Once More We Saw Stars by Jayson Greene

• Jason Reynolds

• Sula by Toni Morrison

• Pratt Institute

• Greene Grape Provisions (Brooklyn, NY)

• Ikigai (Nairobi, Kenya)

• De La Soul

• 3 Feet High and Rising (De La Soul, 1989)

• Houghton Miflin Harcourt Books

• John Coltrane

• Albert Ayler

• Alice Coltrane

• Minnie Riperton

• Yasiin Bey (Mos Def)

• Beyonce

• Rihanna

• Mwandishi (Herbie Hancock, 1971)

• SOURCE (Nabya Garcia, 2018)

• Paul Simon

• MIKE

• Pink Siifu

• Fly Anakin

• Nelson Bandela

• Liv.E

• Akai Solo

• MAVI

• Earl Sweatshirt

• Jeremiah Jae

• Terence Nance

• Random Acts of Flyness (HBO)

• Standing on the Corner

• Slauson Malone

• Spotify

• Empire State of Mind by Zack O'Malley Greenburg

• Dapper Dan; Made in Harlem by Daniel R. Day

• Ice Cube

• Lil Wayne

• N.W.A.

• My Beautiful Dark Twister Fantasy (Kanye West, 2010)

• Runaway [feat. Pusha T] by Kanye West

• Late Registration (Kanye West, 2005)

• Monster [feat. JAY-Z & Rick Ross & Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver] by Kanye West

• Elton John

• Phil Collins

• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John, 1973)

• Thriller (Michael Jackson, 1982)

• Falling Into You (Celine Dion, 1996)

• Spice (Spice GIrls, 1996)

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