Jay- Z’s Decoded is a 300-page tome that’s filled with lush photographs, autobiographical musings and lyrical analysis, roughly in equal measure. But despite its title, the book leaves much un-decoded. Among the important topics largely left out of the book: the details of Jay- Z’s rise as a businessman. Jay- Z has amassed a fortune of 0 million by Forbes’ last count; last year alone he pulled in million. Yet Decoded offers little commentary on the rapper’s transition from the booth to the boardroom. There’s next to nothing about Jay- Z’s ascension to the presidency of Def Jam, his ownership stake in the Nets, his pact with Live Nation and other big deals. Though Jay- Z spends much of Decoded talking about his career as a drug dealer, there’s not much explanation of how or why he extricated himself from that life. Somewhere toward the middle of the book, he zips right past an explanation of how and why he got out, saying “ Maryland ended badly, too–shootouts in clubs, major police investigations, whole crews arrested. I got out of there just in time.” In fact, one of the main reasons he decided to get out was a failed attempt on his life. In Pictures: What Jay- Z’s Book Doesn’t Decode By the early 1990s Jay- Z’s hustling career was approaching its peak. He spent much of his time making “business trips” from New York to Maryland and points further south. Rapping was merely a hobby, a dream deferred–when the opportunity arose, he’d appear on songs like “ Can I Get Open,” recorded with a group called Original Flavor in 1993. But he remained hesitant to devote time and money to music when he knew he could make more as a hustler. It would take more than a nudge to make him change his priorities. That came suddenly and violently in 1994, when Jay- Z almost had his life taken over a dispute with rival dealers. “ He messed with the wrong people,” one of his associates told me in.
In 2010, David Droga and Andrew Essex, co-founders of advertising agency Droga5, hope to convince both John Meneilly, manager of hip-hop star Shawn Carter (better known as Jay- Z) and a partner in Carter's company Roc Nation and Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's Online Services division, to enter into an unprecedented, high-stakes partnership to benefit the launch of Carter's new lyrical memoir, Decoded. Droga5 wrestles with two disparate challenges: developing a campaign for the book's launch and finding a way to drive trial for Bing, Microsoft's new search engine. Droga5's innovative solution is to kill two birds with one stone: a massive, interactive scavenger hunt involving outdoor, bespoke, and digital media. Because Spiegel * Most complete FB2 format support: styles, tables, footnotes. * Additional fonts support (place.ttf to /sdcard/fonts Support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean languages; autodetection of TXT file encoding ( GBK, Shift_ JIS, BIG5, EUC_ KR).* Day and night profiles (two sets of colors, background, backlight levels). * Brightness adjustments by flick on left edge of screen.* Background texture (stretched or tiled) or solid color.* Paperbook-like page turning animation or sliding page animation.* Dictionary support ( Color Dict, Golden Dict, Fora Dictionary, Aard Dictionary).* Customizable tap zone and key actions.* Autoscroll (automatic page flipping) - start using menu/goto/autoscroll or assign action Autoscroll on key or tap zone; Change speed using volume keys or bottom-right and bottom-left tap zones; stop - tap any other tap zone or key.* Can read books from zip archives.* Automatic reformatting of.txt files (autodetect headings etc. Styles can be customised in wide range using external CSS.* Select text using double tap (optional). Place additional textures to /sdcard/.cr3/textures/ - to be used as tiled page.
Decoded by Jay- Z Overview - 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. Read more. New & Used Marketplace 91 copies from .25 More About Decoded by Jay- Z Overview 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.
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