The notoriously private Jay-Z has announced he is releasing a memoir that promises to blow the lid on the most private details of his life.
The book, titled ‘Decoded’, is set to be a real treat for hardcore fans - the memoir is said to go all the way back to Jay’s childhood, going into detail about his younger years in Brookly’s Macy Projects to his years as a teen drug dealer to becoming a hip hop icon. The biography will also include up-close-and-personal interviews with family and friends, and feature first-person explanations of his most famous and provocative lyrics.
But it took some persuading to get Jay-Z to agree to release the book, which was penned a few years ago.
He told Rolling Stone:
"It's too much. For the book, I was interviewed, people close to me were interviewed. So I was learning a lot of things I didn't know as a child," Jay-Z told RS. "It's not anything I haven't said in the past, in songs. It's just more detailed. A song is three minutes long. A book doesn't have to rhyme, and it has no time limit, so you can say exactly how everything went." He said the book also helped him put to rest a few of his demons – in particular his memory of his father, who left when he was age 11.
"It was still wrong, at the end of the day, but he did stick around at a time where it wasn't particularly cool or popular," Jay-Z said. "He married my mom at a time when guys were just leaving, and you'd never even meet your dad. So it made me ease up a little bit in how I felt about him."
Sounds like a good read! And whether he’ll delve into his 360 deal with Live Nation, owning the New Jersey Nets and his most precious possession of all, Beyonce? We’ll just have to wait and see…
Jay-Z’s Decoded is out on November 16.
Will you read Jay’s book? Let us know by commenting below. Meanwhile, to hear the rapper wax lyrical about ‘Problems’ in his preferred medium, check out the vid below…
The book, titled ‘Decoded’, is set to be a real treat for hardcore fans - the memoir is said to go all the way back to Jay’s childhood, going into detail about his younger years in Brookly’s Macy Projects to his years as a teen drug dealer to becoming a hip hop icon. The biography will also include up-close-and-personal interviews with family and friends, and feature first-person explanations of his most famous and provocative lyrics.
But it took some persuading to get Jay-Z to agree to release the book, which was penned a few years ago.
He told Rolling Stone:
"It's too much. For the book, I was interviewed, people close to me were interviewed. So I was learning a lot of things I didn't know as a child," Jay-Z told RS. "It's not anything I haven't said in the past, in songs. It's just more detailed. A song is three minutes long. A book doesn't have to rhyme, and it has no time limit, so you can say exactly how everything went." He said the book also helped him put to rest a few of his demons – in particular his memory of his father, who left when he was age 11.
"It was still wrong, at the end of the day, but he did stick around at a time where it wasn't particularly cool or popular," Jay-Z said. "He married my mom at a time when guys were just leaving, and you'd never even meet your dad. So it made me ease up a little bit in how I felt about him."
Sounds like a good read! And whether he’ll delve into his 360 deal with Live Nation, owning the New Jersey Nets and his most precious possession of all, Beyonce? We’ll just have to wait and see…
Jay-Z’s Decoded is out on November 16.
Will you read Jay’s book? Let us know by commenting below. Meanwhile, to hear the rapper wax lyrical about ‘Problems’ in his preferred medium, check out the vid below…
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