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Jay z autobiography book6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The advance word is that in It Ain’t Hard to Tell (out in 2012), Nas will be tackling some big life stuff, like his relationships with Carmen Bryan, the mother of his daughter, and Kelis, his ex-wife, as well as the passing of his mother from cancer, plus lots of gossip, none bigger than his beef with Jay. Did that mean, perhaps, that you got fewer details on the private life of a rap legend than you would have liked? Good news, then: Nas - the only other modern rapper nearly as revered as Jay-Z, at least until Kanye’s been around for a few more years - is writing a book too, and his is an all-purpose autobiography. He bailed out during the research process, though, later telling USA Today that uncovering details about why his father left the family “threw me for a loop emotionally” and that, in general, the revelations in the book “felt like I was going too far.” And while Jay still shared plenty, the piecemeal format he settled on for Decoded - part lyric explication, part personal anecdotes - meant he could comfortably skirt whatever he wanted. ![]() Years before Decoded, Jay-Z had a contract to write a proper autobiography called The Black Book. ![]()
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