The Jay-Z State of Mind

Friday, 22 October 2010 | by Pat's Picks

There’s a great profile of Jay-Z in this morning’s Wall Street Journal, chronicling the many projects in his stable and the many more to come. The business mogul tells reporter John Jurgensen that in the “early days of his entrepreneurship” some “white-collar guys didn’t know how to relate to him: “In the beginning it was ’ ‘Sup, man!’” “But at this point, it’s pretty much accepted that I walk both worlds naturally.” Up next is a book—organized around lyrics from 36 famous Jay-Z songs—that the Journal calls a “hybrid of music history, social commentary and memoir.”

Click here to read an excerpt from “Decoded,” which is due out on November 6