Or listen to our entire catalogue with our high-quality unlimited streaming subscriptions.The Blueprint of the first volume was Jay-Z as vital as hed ever been, storming back to the hardcore after a few years of commercial success.
The Blueprint: The Gift the Curse was a complete turn, a set of half-cocked crossovers, bloated to bursting with guest features that obscured his talents. The Blueprint 3 is somewhere between the two, closer to the vitality and energy of the original but not without the crossover bids and guest features of the latter (albeit much better this time). Kanye West is in the producers chair for seven tracks, and its clear he was reaching for the same energy level as the original Blueprint (which he produced). What We Talkin About begins the album with a wave of surging, oppressive synth, while Jay-Z enumerates (with an intriguing lack of detail) what hes said and whats been said about him, ending with a nod not to the past but the future (and Barack Obama). West also produced the second, Thank You, and while it starts with typical Jay-Hova brio, the last verse piles on the unrelenting criticism of unnamed rappers doomed to weak sales. Theres plenty more lyrical violence to come, but most of the targets are much safer than they were eight years earlier. Jay doesnt sound very convincing when he claims in D.O.A. Death of Auto-Tune that its not politically correct to rail against one of the most reviled trends in pop music during the 2000s.) From there, he branches out with a calculating type of finesse, drawing in certain demographics via a roster of guests, from Young Jeezy (hardcore) to Drake (teens) to Kid Cudi (the backpacker crowd). The king of the crossovers here is Empire State of Mind, a New York flag-waver with plenty of landmark name-dropping that turns into a great anthem with help on the chorus from Alicia Keys. Jay is upstaged once or twice by his guests, and while the productions are stellar throughout -- Timbaland appears three times, and No I.D. Jays mind this time. Wilson, ComposerLyricist - Jay-Z, MainArtist - Gimel Young Guru Keaton, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Hunte, ComposerLyricist - Janet Sewell-Ulepic, Producer, Co-Producer - Jordan Young, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alexander Shuckburgh, ComposerLyricist - Ann Mincieli, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Janent Sewell-Ulepic, ComposerLyricist. Cole, FeaturedArtist - Jay-Z, MainArtist - Kanye West, Producer, ComposerLyricist - No ID, Producer - Jeff Bhasker, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Gimel Young Guru Keaton, Producer, Mixer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Dawson, Producer, Recording Producer - Jermaine Cole, ComposerLyricist - Maurice Jordan, ComposerLyricist - Kenoe, Producer, Additional Producer - George Medoro, ComposerLyricist.
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