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There’s an entertaining video on Fora.tv of Jay-Z’s appearance at the New York Public Library. He was with Cornel West, a philosopher, civil rights activist and Princeton professor, as well as Paul Holdengräber, the director of the event. Entertaining it was, but it was also rather strange and a tad annoying, the latter two properties being intimately tied. The whole show was soaked in a weird over-reverence for Jay-Z. This was weird in part because over-reverence is never deserved, even though it must have been somewhat difficult to avoid a reverential stance, given that Jay-Z was there to promote Decoded, a book in which he analyses the lyrics of his songs. [Read more →]