Thursday, September 23, 2010

Jay-Z Breaks Down Most Kingz Verse




Jay-Z is set to release his much anticipated book titled "Decoded". I'm definitely picking this one up! Should be a good read! Here's 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 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."

1 comment:

Christopher-Gaspar said...

Good post; didn't know Jay-Z had a book coming out.

Chris
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