Decoded is a book by Grammy winning rapper Jay z. The book is a narrative of his famous lyrics and his overall life. The book decodes 36 songs from Jay-Z, giving an intimate and personal account of his most famous raps. The book’s cover features an image of Andy Warhol’s “Rorschach”.
Heres a piece from the book
"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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