Decoded Excerpt…Jay Discusses Miscarriage, “This Can’t Be Life.”

Jay-Z gets very personal in his recently released book, Decoded, and discusses the miscarriage that his girlfriend had in ’94. In the lyric from “This Can’t Be Life” (that features Beanie Sigel, etc.) Hov says, “Baby came out stillborn, still I gotta move on.”

Jay explains, “This refers to something that happened to me around that time, 1994, when my girl of five years got pregnant and lost the baby in a miscarriage. Now, obviously, miscarriages happen everywhere, to anyone, but the point is that on top of the especially acute paranoia and disappointment and exhaustion I’m feeling from the street life, friends getting shot, your family being broke, I have to deal with the everyday tragedies that stalk everyone. And when that hits you, sometimes it becomes clear that you have to get out, that this really can’t be life, it has to be more.”

Spotted @ MTV