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Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics

and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an

art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and

successful artists of our time.

“Hip-hop’s renaissance man drops a classic. . . . Heartfelt,

passionate and slick.”— Kirkus, starred review

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　　Like its multi-hyphenate author, Jay-Z, Decoded is many things

at once. At its core, Decoded is an eloquent and candid memoir

detailing the story of a man who was born in a Brooklyn housing

project, spent his teen years dealing drugs on the streets of

Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up to be one of his generation’s most

successful artists and businessmen. But Decoded is much more than a

memoir: it is an intensely personal homage to hip-hop, as written

by a man who so clearly adores the art form; it is a rare glimpse

of the unexpectedly deep meanings behind the most recognizable rap

lyrics of the last decade; and it is a truly moving collection of

essays on topics ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the decline of

the music industry. Unconventional type design, line drawings, and

photographs visually emphasize the author’s message that rap is a

form that transcends and defies easy categorization. There’s not

much in the way of celebrity gossip here, but what we get, instead,

is a gritty and enormously compelling look inside the cultural

phenomenon of rap, from one of the men who contributed so much to

its shape. --Juliet Disparte

　　Jay-Z on Decoded

　　When you're famous and say you're writing a book, people assume

that it's an autobiography--I was born here, raised there, suffered

this, loved that, lost it all, got it back, the end. But that's not

what this is. I've never been a linear thinker, which is something

you can see in my rhymes. They follow the jumpy logic of poetry and

emotion, not the straight line of careful prose. My book is like

that, too.

　　Decoded is first and foremost, a book of rhymes, which is ironic

because I don't actually write my rhymes--they come to me in my

head and I record them. The book is packed with the stories from my

life that are the foundation of my lyrics--stories about coming up

in the streets of Brooklyn in the 80's and 90's, stories about

becoming an artist and entrepreneur and discovering worlds that I

never dreamed existed when I was a kid. But it always comes back to

the rhymes. There's poetry in hip-hop lyrics--not just mine, but in

the work of all the great hip-hop artists, from KRS-One and Rakim

to Biggie and Pac to a hundred emcees on a hundred corners all over

the world that you've never heard of. The magic of rap is in the

way it can take the most specific experience, from individual lives

in unlikely places, and turn them into art that can be embraced by

the whole world. Decoded is a book about one of those specific

lives--mine--and will show you how the things I've experienced and

observed have made their way into the art I've created. It's also

about how my work is sometimes not about my life at all, but about

pushing the boundaries of what I can express through the poetry of

rap--trying to use words to find fresh angles into emotions that we

all share, which is the hidden mission in even the hardest hip-hop.

Decoded is a book about some of my favorite songs--songs that I

unpack and explain and surround with narratives about what inspired

them--but behind the rhymes is the truest story of my life.

媒体评论

“Compelling . . . provocative, evocative . . . Part

autobiography, part lavishly illustrated commentary on the author’s

own work,

Decoded

gives the reader a harrowing portrait of

the rough worlds Jay-Z navigated in his youth, while at the same

time deconstructing his lyrics.”—Michiko Kakutani,

The New York

Times

“One of a handful of books that just about any hip hop fan should

own.”—

The New Yorker

“Elegantly designed, incisively written . . . an impressive leap by

a man who has never been known for small steps.”—

Los Angeles

Times

“A riveting exploration of Jay-Z’s journey . . . So thoroughly

engrossing, it reads like a good piece of cultural

journalism.”—

The Boston Globe

“Shawn Carter’s most honest airing of the experiences he drew on to

create the mythic figure of Jay-Z . . . The scenes he recounts

along the way are fascinating.”—

Entertainment Weekly

From the Trade Paperback edition.

书籍介绍

Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.

“Hip-hop’s renaissance man drops a classic. . . . Heartfelt, passionate and slick.”— Kirkus, starred review