An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
A journalist, cultural critic, and professor whose work has appeared in Pitchfork, TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, the Atlantic, and elsewhere, Marcus J. Moore is also the author of The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America and, more recently, High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul. Hanif Abdurraqib calls the latter “a love letter, but not one grounded solely in the romantics of the past…it is also an ode to how [the group] touched the present, and how they will endlessly touch the future.” Moore discussed High and Rising with fellow BIO member Kevin McGruder in October.
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