How A Gangsta Rapper Made Me a Better Mom – Integrated Musical Edition is a six-hour-plus fiction audiobook combining Stacey Jackson’s narration with 19 original songs woven directly into the storytelling.
Inspired in part by Stacey’s own journey through motherhood, reinvention and the music industry – including an unexpected recording collaboration with Snoop Dogg – the project blends spoken-word storytelling and original music into one continuous listening experience.
Stacey Jackson serves as author and principal narrator, with Roy Basnett as guest reader.
The audiobook was produced, recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Ramzi Sleiman.
Authors
Stacey Jackson & Ruth Elkins
Principal Narrator
Stacey Jackson
Guest Reader
Roy Basnett
Audiobook Producer
Ramzi Sleiman
Original Music
19 integrated original recordings
Recording / Editing / Mixing / Mastering
Ramzi Sleiman
Publisher / Label
3B1G Records
Release Date
7 October 2025
Running Time
6 hrs 23 mins
Stacey Jackson is a Canadian-born, American and London-based recording artist, author, television presenter and podcast host whose career spans music, broadcasting and storytelling. Over the course of her recording career, she has dozens of commercially released dance records, including a collaboration with Snoop Dogg – an unexpected chapter in her life and career that helped inspire the world and title of How A Gangsta Rapper Made Me a Better Mom.
She is the author and principal narrator of How A Gangsta Rapper Made Me a Better Mom (Integrated Musical Edition), an immersive musical novel that combines spoken-word storytelling with 19 original music recordings woven throughout the narrative, creating a listening experience that sits between audiobook, soundtrack and musical storytelling.
Former presenter of the music series Stacey Jackson in the 80s, which ran for three consecutive seasons on Sky in the UK, Stacey now co-hosts The Gen-X-Perience Podcast, bringing a warm, conversational interviewing style to culture, entertainment and life through a Gen-X lens.


