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.” 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. 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 book’s list price was set unusually high at $40.ī published an excerpt from Decoded: “When I first started working on this book, I told my editor that I wanted it to do three important things. The iPad/iPhone version takes it one step further with interactive features, an exclusive video, and customizable content. The printed and eBook formats contain illustrations, lyric analysis, and the autobiography content. To write this 336-page book, 36 of Jay-Z’s songs were “decoded” and broken down to offer readers an intimate look at Jay-Z’s art. The cover for Jay-Z’s memoir Decoded features a golden piece from Andy Warhol’s 1984 series, the “Rorschach” paintings.
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