What first surfaced on Jay-Z’s Twitter page a few weeks ago, we now get to see that said image is really the cover to his new book, Decoded. The design is taken from Andy Warhol’s Rorschach ink blotch paintings. The book will feature illustrations and a decoding of sorts for 36 different Jay-Z songs. Interesting. Look out for it in stores and on iPad’s this November.
“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.”- Jay-Z
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