The Voice in My Head Is God

Rapper 2 Chainz debuts with a middling mix of memoir and self-help about the value of listening to one’s intuition. The bulk of the book consists of formative episodes in which the author’s “inner voice” proved correct, in some cases saving his life or his career. He describes, for example, sensing that a stranger behaving oddly in public was a gunman, and intuiting that he needed to break a record deal to go solo, after which he built up enough leverage to return to the label and sign a four-album solo deal. Unfortunately, despite his promise to help readers tap into their intuition to live more authentically, the assorted examples don’t cohere into a clear program to follow. Banal observations (“It’s important to place a lot of thought into every decision, especially big decisions”) and stale advice (he references Malcolm Gladwell’s well-known 10,000 hour theory to underscore the importance of hard work) don’t help matters. All but the author’s most devoted fans can feel free to skip this. (Mar.)