Jay-Z Decoded

Music mogul and multi-platinum selling recording artist JAY-Z's bestselling book Decoded is released in a unique iPhone and iPad app.

Transforming the book into your own personal account of JAY-Z's life and music, the app enables you to choose your ten favourite JAY-Z songs to download and Decode.

Each 'decoded' song combines a full set of interactive lyrics complete with JAY-Z's own notes and annotations and a highly personal narrative section accompanied by a visually captivating selection of photographs and artwork. The app gives you the option to sync to your iTunes account to purchase and listen to JAY-Z's songs as he Decodes them.

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Upgrade within the app to receive the complete version of Jay Z's Decoded and rediscover all your favourite songs!

Price:
£2.99 for 10 songs or an additional £14.99 in-app purchase for the complete book.

Availability: UK

Guide

Create your own customised version of the book by picking your ten favourite JAY-Z songs to be Decoded. Listen to the songs whilst using the interactive lyrics with JAY-Z's own annotations. Upgrade to the full version to get the complete text of the book.

Availability: UK

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Featuring the full text of the book with illustrations and photographs, the enhanced edition includes over 30 minutes of previously unseen interviews with JAY-Z and two bonus videos for his songs.

Availability: UK

Told through lyrics (with his own notes and annotations), images and personal narrative, Decoded shares the story of JAY-Z's life through the codes that define him.

'Impossible to better'
Independent on Sunday

Decoded includes lyrics for 36 songs, each annotated with notes written by JAY-Z.

Public Service Announcement (The Black Album)
American Dreamin’ (American Gangster)
Early This Morning (unreleased)
Coming of Age (Reasonable Doubt)
Coming of Age (Da Sequel) (Vol. 2 . . . Hard Knock Life)
D’Evils (Reasonable Doubt)
99 Problems (The Black Album)
Ignorant Shit (American Gangster)
Most Kings (unreleased)
Success (American Gangster)
Renegade (The Blueprint)
Can I Live? (Reasonable Doubt)
Fallin’ (American Gangster)
Big Pimpin’ (Vol. 3 . . . Life and Times of S. Carter)
Streets Is Watching (In My Lifetime, Vol. 1)
Operation Corporate Takeover (Mix Tape Freestyle)
Moment of Clarity (The Black Album)
Breathe Easy (Lyrical Exercise) (The Blueprint)
My 1st Song (The Black Album)
Young Gifted and Black (S. Carter Collection)
Hell Yeah (Pimp the System) (Revolutionary But Gangsta)
Beware (Jay-Z Remix) (Beware)
Blue Magic (American Gangster)
This Life Forever (Black Gangster)
Meet the Parents (The Blueprint2: The Lift & the Curse)
Where I’m From (In My Lifetime, Vol. 1)
Minority Report (Kingdom Come)
Dynasty (Intro) (The Dynasty: Roc La Familia)
My President Is Black (unreleased)
Regrets (Reasonable Doubt)
This Can’t Be Life (The Dynasty: Roc La Familia)
Soon You’ll Understand (The Dynasty: Roc La Familia)
Beach Chair (Kingdom Come)
Lucifer (The Black Album)
December 4th (The Black Album)
History (unreleased)