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The music mogul is set to release an autobiography and lyrics booklet Decoded later this year. He said he hopes it will shed some light on the complexities of the genre.
The 40-year-old told MTV News, 'I think, more so than anything, just to explain or to let people realise who just listen to rap like, 'Let's browse through it,' to show people the depth in rap and its poetry.
'I want to show that rap is really poetry, it's not just a bunch of guys putting rhyming words together. There's thought behind it and there's cleverness and there's inspiration. There's social reason and there's political reason and there's angst and there's anger and all these different things inside music.'
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