Jay-Z is set to rerelease his New York Times bestseller Decoded on November 1st (via RR).
The memoir, which deconstructs lyrics from his tracks, will be reissued in a new expanded paperback that includes a new chapter, seven additional illustrations and three new decoded tracks (“I Know,” “Young Gz,” “Lost Ones” 
).
Hov also lent his pen to a new Afterword to be included in the book. “What still excites me about rap is that it’s an open thread, a cipher that listeners find their own meanings in,” he writes. “The point of this book is not to settle arguments or transform rap songs into neat stories with a beginning, middle, and end. Rather, I’m trying to point readers to some ideas and information, get them to see deeper into the music than they saw before and learn more about worlds different from their own (or find new ways of looking at the worlds they already know)—to find their own meanings and connect them back to their own lives. I want readers to see the craft and learn the context—and I want them to still be able to feel the magic, and enjoy the show.”
that looks like those photos the head shrinks show you and ask you what you see on all those tv shows
it is stupid, smh
Rorschach test .
who gives a fuck? though to Jay’s credit, he DID at least hire a black dude as co-writer, unlike witless fucking fraud Common, who went with a white boy.
look at the cover closely, its the head of baphomet the sabbatic goat, a figure of SATANISM. (ie. face of illuminati)
Ps: if u dont believe me click on this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet
and look for yourself
What’s your point?
I looked for myself and the verdict is that you’re an idiot.
Stop being a virgin and leave the basement
Jay is the best ever, so fucking intelligent.
you that ig’nant or just coonin’? read James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Frederick Douglass and come back at us, dipshit.
its crazy how rap has had deeper underlying meanings this whole time but some people just judge shit on the surface level. why cant our parents look beyond the cuss words and anger and listen to the cries of these songs and see the poetic beauty in rap? this book sounds hella dope and i hope it helps more closed minded people
Exactly! Rap is perfected poetry. Some songs are soooo fucking amazing from a writing standpoint, it’s unbelievable.
That pic of Jay >>> Nas’ career.
…camel in a leather jacket?
^^^^ anonymous
The shittiest Nas verse in history >>>>> Jay crying on hot97 after Ether
So you drop 40 bucks on a book, now they want you to drop another 40 because of a new cover and a few extra words, for years artists , labels raped the public with cd costs…now there doing it with concerts and books…what a joke.
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amazing book