Music journalist and author Marcus J. Moore‘s new book about De La Soul, High and Rising, came out this week via HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books. It’s Moore’s second book — he ...

Marcus J. Moore, author of 2020’s The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America, initially assumed it was too late to follow it with a book about one of his favorite ...

“It was disappointing, because they were quite literally judging a book by its cover,” says Moore ... Moore also details how De La Soul’s suburban origins shaped the light, endlessly ...