The cover art for Jay-Z’s anticipated book ‘Decoded’ was released. The cover features an image of Andy Warhol’s “Rorschach” and is expected to hit shelves on November 16th through publisher Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. ‘Decoded’ is currently available for pre-order at Amazon.com.
Decoded by Jay-Z Cover Art
36 of Jay-Z’s lyrics are decoded with narrative from the artist through the project. Until now, Jay-Z’s lyrical artistry has been open to interpretation. Billboard posted an excerpt from the book where Jay-Z explains what he wanted to accomplish with the project:
“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.”
See below as Jay-Z decodes his lyrics in “Most Kingz” and the source of inspiration from a Basquiat painting:
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