by The Kenny Burns Show
Title Weekend Gross
spotted: RapRadar
Just one year after Jay-Z’s Decoded hit bookshelves, the New York Times bestselling book will be re-released on November 1. Featured in a new expanded paperback edition, the re-release will contain a new chapter, seven additional illustrations, three decoded songs: “I Know”, “Young Gz”, “Lost Ones” 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
checkout #instagram pics of Hip Hop Video Vixen: Rosa Acosta after the jump…Enjoy!
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directed by Highly Alleyne and Lamar Thomas
directed by T and B Films
T.I.’s novel, Power & Beauty, also written by David Ritz, will be available in bookstores on October 18th. Unil then, HHNM has the first eight pages of the fictional love story’s opening chapter. Read up below.
Cam speaks on his past business relationship with hip hop mogul Jay-Z.
“I think he’s a good, great businessman,” Cam said referring to Jay. “But he’s a competitor. He doesn’t like people just as good or who may be better on the same level as him….” Read More
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Kanye West launched his womens wear fashion line for spring/summer 2012 in Paris this weekend.
Named Dw, after his mother Donda West who passed away in 2007, the line offered up a collection of neutrally shaded chic ensembles, heavy on layering and texture.
Kanye achieved his desired look with the help of respected British designers Louise Goldin and Katie Eary and Giuseppe Zanotti designed the shoes specially for the collection.
The clothing was reportedly inspired by Christine Centenera, an editor at Harper’s Bazaar Australia.
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