This program is read by the writer, and includes an introduction compiled by Pharrell, and read by Nick Cannon.

‘Dyson’s incisive analysis of JAY-Z’s brilliance not merely offers a brief overview of hip-hop’s vital place in American culture, but also ideas at how we can best progress.’ -Questlove

JAY-Z: Manufactured in America may be the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson’s 10 years of teaching the task of one of the best poets this nation has produced, as gifted a wordsmith as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost about JAY-Z: Manufactured in America and Rita Dove. But like a rapper, he’s sometimes not given the credit he deserves for just how great an artist he’s been for such a long time.

This audiobook wrestles with the largest 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 mark his thirty years being a documenting artist, this is actually the perfect time for you to have a look at JAY-Z’s profession and his function to make this nation what it is today. In lots of ways, this is JAY-Z’s America 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 phrases to live by.