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- Paperback
- Publisher: Virgin Books
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0753522705
- ISBN-13: 978-0753522707
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Bedford Stuyvesant was his country, and Brooklyn was his planet. With these words we are led into a world that you cannot imagine, that no film can do justice to. It requires hundreds of pages to absorb, and with each page you become further and further immersed. The graphic work accompanying the printed message is among the best I have ever seen, and it will help you to understand this very special person.
Somewhere in every person's life if you can experience transformation from where you were born to what your soul intended you to become, there is always a MENTOR figure. Sometimes it is a teacher, a relative, or a friend, but always someone.
For Jay-Z it was Slate, who was among the first street rappers, before they even put a name on the movement. He would stand in a circle; he could go 30 minutes just rhyming, as though he was trained for it. The young Jay-Z would stand and just be mesmerized by Slate, who seemed like an ordinary fellow until he stepped into the circle, and Jay-Z would transform himself by uttering the words, I can do that.
And therein begins a WILD RIDE, from the Marcy Projects in Brooklyn to king of the hip hop movement. He would go from drug dealing and drug running to a billion dollar self created empire that would be the envy of any businessman. Years later, Russell Simmons another hip hop master, and mentor to Jay-Z would say, that one grows up wanting to wear a suit, but hip-hop would mean never having to grow up and instead one would wear sneakers to the board room.
Jay-Z Decoded will have an interesting audience. Yes there will the kids who will own it and never read it, but for those of us, who read this book cover to cover, I promise you that you will not put this book back on the shelf without being affected by it.
I'm a Jay-Z fan. Period. But with that said, a music fan does not have to agree (or admire) every single thing an artist does. There were some parts in this book that I was flat out disgusted by and others I read and re-read.
Cons: I'm not a fan of the n-word. Period. While some may consider it a generational thing, I'm younger than Jay-Z (29), and I flat out don't have any respect for the word and will usually end up debating anybody who uses the word around me and DEFINITELY won't tolerate anybody calling me that. I think it's ridiculous that he wants people to let go of the entire history of the word but will then go into periods of the book where he reflects on how black people were treated historically, specifically during the Hurricane Katrina chapter.
He's still holding a grudge against Cristal because of what a representative said about not being able to control who buys his product. He felt that was racist. I can understand that. He felt like the rep used the wrong word. But then in the lyrics of one of his songs, he states that he wants Jehovah's Witnesses to stop being so uptight about him using the name "Hova" short for "Jehovah." He also brushed off anybody who was annoyed about the chorus of "99 Problems" and somehow believes that since he didn't talk about a woman during the song that no one should complain about him using the b-word. Whether it was used in the chorus or in the lyrics, it doesn't take much brainpower to figure out what "I got 99 problems, but a b---- ain't one" is referring to. Why not just not use it at all if you're not talking about a female?
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