Live Telecast with JAY-Z

Event Details from  Book Soup:

Book Soup is pleased to be hosting a live telecast produced byLIVE from the NYPL with JAY-Z talks about his new bookDECODED in conversation with Cornel West at the New York Public Library

This telecast will be shown at Book Soup and will start promptly at 4:00pm. A limited number of Jay-Z autographed copies will be available for those in attendance.

Fiercely candid, uncompromising, provocative, inspiring—DECODED is the long awaited first book by the multi-platinum, 10 time Grammy Award winning artist, entrepreneur, and icon JAY-Z.

"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."—JAY-Z, from DECODED