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Jay-Z Get's Ready To Get Decoded

Wednesday, 22 September 2010 |   Written by Jason   PDF Print E-mail Post a Comment
     Jay-Z will drop his first book "Decoded" on November 16th with a logo inspired by Andy Warhol. The book will include 36 songs "Decoded" by Jigga himself, telling the stories behind some of his most famous links and lyrics.

     Jay-Z says "When I first started working on this book, I told my editor that I wanted it to do three important things. The first was to make the case that hip-hop lyrics—not just my lyrics, but those of every great MC—are poetry if you look at them closely enough. The second was I wanted the book to tell a little bit of the story of my generation, to show the context for the choices we made at a violent and chaotic crossroads in recent history. And the third piece was that I wanted the book to show how hip-hop created a way to take a very specific and powerful experience and turn it into a story that everyone in the world could feel and relate to."


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