Bandcamp senior editor and Pitchfork contributor Marcus J. Moore announced today that he is writing The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America, a new cultural biography of Kendrick Lamar. According to Moore, the book will discuss Kendrick’s “rise to rap superstardom.” It’s due out via Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.

Read Marcus J. Moore’s review of Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 Kennedy Center concert.