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HOW A GANGSTA RAPPER MADE ME A BETTER MOM

Integrated Musical Edition

STACEY JACKSON

Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording

ABOUT THE PROJECT


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.

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Excerpt from the Integrated Musical Edition

PROJECT CREDITS

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

ABOUT STACEY JACKSON


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. 

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HOW A GANGSTA RAPPER
MADE ME A BETTER MOM