5/20/2023 0 Comments Jay z memoir![]() 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. When I first started working on this book, I told my editor that I wanted it to do three important things. They follow the jumpy logic of poetry and emotion, not the straight line of careful prose. I’ve never been a linear thinker, which is something you can see in my rhymes. When you’re famous and say you’re writing a book, people assume that it’s an autobiography - I was born here, raised there, suffered this, loved that, lost it all, got it back, the end. So far, 298 of the 300 pages have been released, found and deciphered. But overexposure aside, Decoded, out today, is a candid memoir that offers a rare first-hand account of a modern rags-to-riches story.Īs part of the Bing promotion, 300 pages of the book were placed in the streets where the events they describe actually took place, for fans to locate and decode. Between the Bing push and the Andy Warhol cover art, Jay-Z’s autobiography (the genre seems to be a recurring theme today) runs a high risk of being overhyped. ![]()
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