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This first cultural biography of rap superstar and "master of storytelling" (The New Yorker) Kendrick Lamar explores his meteoric rise to fame and his profound impact on a racially fraught America--perfect for fans of Zack O'Malley Greenburg's Empire State of Mind.Kendrick Lamar is at the top of his game. The thirteen-time Grammy Award-winning rapper is just in his early thirties, but he's already won the Pulitzer Prize for Music, produced and curated the soundtrack of the megahit film Black Panther, and has been named one of Time's 100 Influential People. But what's even more striking about the Compton-born lyricist and performer is how he's established himself as a formidable adversary of oppression and force for change. Through his confessional poetics, his politically charged anthems, and his radical performances, Lamar has become a beacon of light for countless people.
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Marcus J. Moore is a music journalist, editor, and author of "The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America," which will be published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, on October 13, 2020. Moore works at The Nation magazine as a contributing writer and at Bandcamp Daily as its contributing editor.His writing on music can also be found at Pitchfork, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, The Atlantic, the Washington Post's newspaper and magazine, Complex, The Fader, Vox, SPIN, MTV and BBC Music. His features and reviews of mainstream albums have appeared in Rolling Stone and Billboard.
