Jay-Z
Made in America
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- 12,99 €
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- 12,99 €
Publisher Description
I’M NOT A BUSINESSMAN – I’M A BUSINESS, MAN
Rapper, MC, producer, zakenman, activist en bovenal: hustler. JAY-Z is Amerika en Amerika is JAY-Z. Van de straten van Brooklyn, New York klom hij op tot de absolute top van de hiphopwereld. JAY-Z: Made in America is de ultieme biografie van het grootste hiphopicoon aller tijden.
Met zijn geniale en provocerende teksten gaf JAY-Z zíjn Amerika – het land van drugs, criminaliteit, racisme en money – een stem. Daarmee veroverde hij niet alleen de VS, maar de hele wereld. En toch krijgt hij als rapper vaak niet het respect dat hij verdient voor zijn succes als artiest. In deze biografie gaat auteur Michael Eric Dyson dieper in op JAY-Z’s immense invloed op de hiphop en de Amerikaanse mainstream. Laat je meevoeren door het leven en de lyrics van de godfather van de hiphop.
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In this astute cultural biography, Dyson (Tears We Cannot Stop) analyzes the impact of Jay-Z through his music from his hard-knock life as a drug dealer from Brooklyn, to his becoming a billionaire rapper and husband of megastar Beyonc . "The more I pore over his lyrics," writes Dyson, who teaches a course on Jay-Z at Georgetown University, "the more I realize that I am dealing with an extremely intelligent poet whose work matches the poets I've admired since childhood... Tennyson, Hughes, Brooks and Yeats." With lyrics including "I'm not a businessman; I'm a business, man! Let me handle my business, damn," Dyson cites Jay-Z's "use of braggadocio and allusion, signifying and double entendre, metaphor and homophones." Dyson explores how Jay-Z created profound, meaningful art out of bleak urban decay. "When we hear JAY-Z," Dyson writes, "we listen to the incomparable tongue of American democracy expressed by a people too long held underfoot." Dyson compares Jay-Z to Barack Obama ("both tremendously charismatic men... married to strong and brilliant women"), and recalls Jay-Z's campaign ads for Obama and a tongue-in-cheek song he performed on the eve of Obama's inauguration, featuring the line "My president is black/ In fact he's half white/ So even in a racist mind/ He's half right". Dyson's excellent study serves as a succinct blueprint of Jay-Z's artistry and legacy.
