The Blueprint
| Jay Z
The Blueprint
The Blueprint is the sixth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released on September 11, 2001, by Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings. Its release was set a week earlier than initially planned in order to combat bootlegging. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2001 at Manhattan Center Studios and Baseline Studios in New York City. Contrasting the radio-friendly sound of Jay-Z's previous work, The Blueprintfeatures soul-based sampling and production handled primarily by Kanye West, Just Blaze, and Bink, as well as Timbaland, Trackmasters, and Eminem, who also contributes the album's sole guest verse."-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
He's left behind all the dirty funk of so many jams past; too powerful, too rich, too refined to even be touched by such filthiness.
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Rolling Stone
The Blueprint is a new-school old-school album, full of playground boasts, harmless battling and simple odes to the good life.
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Hiphop DX
well-established flow, comedic verses and “rewind-me” lines
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Focus Hiphop
It’s definitely his best album since Reasonable Doubt.
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NME
The Blueprint’ has eloquently mapped out life’s foundations: laughter, tears, joy and pain, and has marked the Jigga as the complete rapper.
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Immortal Reviews
He defined hip-hop and rap and brought the past to a then-modern note at the end of the old-school hip-hop era.
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Sputnik Music
A new Jay-Z, that wasn't as good as the Jay-Z heard on Reasonable Doubt, but still was excellent.
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Slant Magazine
Adding ’70s soul to the rapper’s predictable mix of self-declaration and catty peer-dissing.
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Vibe
The real surprise on Blueprint is Jay’s experimentation with tracks
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Back in the Day
The Blueprint was Jaz-Z’s first complete album where the hits outnumbered the misses
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The Young Folk
The Blueprint, arguably one of the most iconic and significant hip-hop albums of all time, uniquely offers a rich tapestry of sample beats
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AV Music
The Blueprint trades the chilly, futuristic minimalism of S. Carter for a warmer, more organic sound rooted in the soul and funk of the '60s and '70s.
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All Music
A fully realized masterpiece
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PopMatters
The Blueprint sounds organic
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