6/8/2023 0 Comments Decoded memoir![]() ![]() This is interesting in itself, as the life of the man known to his mother as Shawn Carter is certainly colourful enough to succeed on such conventional terms.įrom the shy boy in the Queens projects, scribbling in his notebook in tiny print so his peers couldn't "bite" his rhymes to superstar rapper, chief executive, entrepreneur and husband to the singer Beyoncé Knowles, this is a life with content to go around.īut as the title and cover art - one of Andy Warhol's Rorschach paintings, adapted from the visual tests used by psychologists to assess a patient's thought processes - suggest, Decoded is something that probes rather deeper.īuilt for the coffee table, Decoded is packed with photographs, sleeves and illustrations, and also functions as a lyric book, bringing together three dozen of Carter's selected raps spanning his career from 1996's Reasonable Doubt to 2007's American Gangster, plus a few unreleased cuts for good measure. ![]() ![]() Decoded, the first book by the New York rap mogul Jay-Z, is rather more than a memoir. ![]()
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