DeHaven’s Book
Back in 2007, DeHaven was ready to air out all the personal details of Jay-Z’s life: that he wasn’t a gangster, he wasn’t a big-time drug dealer and that he had less money than he said he did. Before Jay-Z was famous, Jay-Z worked for De-Haven selling drugs in New Jersey in the late 80s and early 1990s. DeHaven was the boss and Jay-Z was one of his runners. DeHaven ended up getting arrested and spending a long time behind bars. In that time, Jay-Z became one of the most famous rappers of all time. The plan was for Jay-Z to help to DeHaven when he got out of jail. When DeHaven did get out of jail, Jay-Z allegedly did none of that. In fact, Jay-Z was ignoring DeHaven altogether. DeHaven was pissed off and decided to release a tell all book about him and Jay-Z’s life. The book was completed and was supposed to be accompanied by a DVD, but the book never got released. Did Jay-Z stop the book from being released?
Funkmaster Flex’s Biggie Books
Funkmaster Flex in 2014 was originally working on a book about rare stories of hanging out with Biggie Smalls from the accounts of his family and close friends. When that book didn’t happen, Flex was working on a separate Biggie book that focuses strictly on his murder. Flex has still not released either one of his books. We spoke to the co-author of the murder book and it is still in the works.
Jay-Z’s Black Book
You might have forgotten about this one, but Jay-Z was releasing an autobiography with writer Dream Hampton back in 2003. Jay-Z did release a memoir back in 2012, but that was more memories about his life. This book was a full autobiography. The plan for the book was for it to be released shortly after The Black Album was released. In fact, in the Black Album CD booklet (remember those?) includes a small excerpt from that book. It happens to be the only excerpt from the book ever released. Once the book was progressing along, Jay-Z didn’t like how many personal details of his life would be published and ultimately pulled out from releasing the book.
E-40’s Book Of Slang Dictionary
Back in 2003, E-40 announced that he was publishing a slang dictionary of slang words he created in conjunction with Murder Dog Magazine. That book never materialized, and a decade later in 2014, 40 said that was going to be releasing his book of slang in the form of an app instead. E-40 never released that app either. E-40 should still release it because there still is a demand for it and rap fans around the world would love it.
It Ain’t Hard To Tell by Nas
Back in 2012, Nas signed a book deal for his autobiography titled “Ain’t Hard To Tell”. The book’s focus was going to be on his relationships with Carmen and Kelis and his entire recollection of the Jay-Z beef. In addition to all that, Nas was going to include “song deconstruction” where he explains some of his old lyrics verse by verse. Back in 2020, Nas signed a book deal with Simon and Schuster with hip hop journalist Toure for his autobiography. Neither the original book from 2012 has been released nor the latest version from 2020. We just looked now online to see if there is any information pertaining to that book anywhere, and we have found a listing for it with a release date of December 31st 2050!