Jay-Z Releasing Decoded Paperback

A year after Jay-Z’s Decoded hit shevles, the book will be re-released on November 1st as a paperback. The book will also contain a new chapter, seven additional illustrations, three songs: “I Know”, “Young Gz”, “Lost One” and a new afterword.

What still excites me about rap is that it’s an open thread, a cipher that listeners find their own meanings in. The point of this book is not to settle arguments or transform rap songs into neat stories with a beginning, middle, and end. Rather, I’m trying to point readers to some ideas and information, get them to see deeper into the music than they saw before and learn more about worlds different from their own (or find new ways of looking at the worlds they already know)—to find their own meanings and connect them back to their own lives. I want readers to see the craft and learn the context—and I want them to still be able to feel the magic, and enjoy the show. —JAY-Z, from the new Afterword

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  1. SMH now I gotta sell the old shit to some unsuspecting sucker for the same price I paid for it and buy this one.

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  3. Fungie says:

    damn..now i want the new one..they updating this shit like an iPhone..lol

    Target giving out $1,000 giftcards http://goo.gl/IlJ9U ..4 their 30th anniversary..next 24 hours only..all my school shit paid 4!

  4. COLD DEΛTH says:

    REAL NIGGAS DON’T READ BOOKS!

    NEW YORK WINS AGAIN!

    YOU CAN’T STOP US NOW!

  5. Your mother's "friend" says:

    Jay-z = GOAT , but lets be real he stole the “i know” idea from 50 , i hope he at least acknowledges it

  6. COLD DE/TH says:

    REAL NIGGAS WRITE BOOKS! REAL NIGGAS COLLECT BOOKS FOR SHOW! NEW YORK WINS AGAIN! YOU CAN’T STOP US NOW!

  7. CapricornReligion says:

    Damn Jay…..

    Lol, I respect the Move and, “Young Gz” is a VERY underrated Classic but, Lol, C’mon man. You should of just added those Three to begin with.

    I’ll go to Barnes and Noble and just read it there. My first copy is enough

  8. drakesucks says:

    illuminati………

  9. THEREALDIRTYG says:

    I aint selling shit my book is signed.

  10. DRAG says:

    The first book was cool. I just wish he would have broken down some deeper things. It”s like he made that book for middle aged white dudes that never been to the hood ever.

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAPqeg2N8a0&w=560&h=315%5D

  11. COLD DE/TH says:

    DRAG, YOU FAG, IT WAS FOR THAT CROWD. NIGGAS DON’T READ.

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  13. Guy says:

    jay z be a devil worshipper

    “i want them to still be able to feel the magic”

    not to mention the fucking baphomet hidden in the cover

  14. Lucky P says:

    thanks HOV..for giving the late motherfuckers even MORE of a collectors item..thanks

  15. King says:

    @Guy

    So you mean Andy Warhol was in the Illuminati? Because he’s the one that painted the cover… in 1984.

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  17. happy fingers says:

    the cover looks cool

  18. LATraffic says:

    Thats dope, but not worth buying another copy.

  19. DJ Semtex's Prosthetic says:

    why would this even be considered for the top 5 posts? id imagine theres better things to put there other than jay-z is tryying to re-release his book?

  20. Look says:

    I used to be a Jay-Z fan, and i even read this book. But i can’t listen to him anymore now that i know about the satanic bullshit he’s pushing…look at the cover, how can you not see the baphomet right in the fuckin’ middle?

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  27. Indy says:

    We deinfitely need more smart people like you around.

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