JAY-Z: Made in America Audiobook (Free)

This program is read by the author, and includes an introduction written by Pharrell, and read by Nick Cannon.

‘Dyson’s incisive evaluation of JAY-Z’s brilliance not merely offers a brief history of hip-hop’s critical place in American tradition, but also ideas at how exactly we can greatest progress.’ -Questlove

JAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson’s decade of teaching the work of one of the best poets this nation has produced, as gifted a wordsmith as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost on the subject of JAY-Z: Manufactured in America and Rita Dove. But being a rapper, he’s sometimes not provided the credit he deserves for how great an musician he’s been for such a long time.

This audiobook wrestles with the biggest themes of JAY-Z’s career, including hustling, and it recognizes just how that he’s always weaved politics into his music, making important statements about race, criminal justice, black wealth and social injustice. As he enters his fifties, and to tag his thirty years as a documenting artist, this is the perfect time to have a look at JAY-Z’s profession and his function in making this nation what it is today. In many ways, this is JAY-Z’s America just as much as it’s Pelosi’s America, or Trump’s America, or Martin Luther King’s America. JAY-Z provides given this country a language to believe with and terms to live by.