The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse
| Jay Z
The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse
The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse(stylized as The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse) is the seventh studio albumby American rapperJay-Z. It was released on November 12, 2002, by Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings. The album serves as a sequel to his sixth album The Blueprint(2001). Parts of the album were later reissued for his compilation album, titled Blueprint 2.1(2003). The album debuted at number one, shipping with first-week sales of 545,000 units. As of February 2012, the album has sold 2,117,000 units in the United States."-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The fortifying teaser to a pay-per-view-worthy finale.
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NME
state of the art club tracks, introspective ditties, violent face-offs and ghetto truths ripped from memory, tweaked sound-wise by Timbaland, The Neptunes, Dr Dre and Just Blaze amongst others
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Rolling Stone
One more strong record from hip-hop’s most dependable voice.
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Back in the Day
The Blueprint 2 felt like, a Big Mac after being served a steak with the first Blueprint.
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Spin
Tightening the screws on his delivery, he’s found a bruising poetry in a flow that once seemed clumsily conversational.
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Sputnik Music
The difference between the “Blueprint 2” and the aforementioned contemporaries is that it is far less interesting and more frustratingly average.
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Rap Reviews
It's that trademark mix of wit and playfulness that keeps the otherwise volumnious double disc "The Gift & the Curse" from becoming overbearing.
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AV Club
Overreaching but surprisingly solid, Blueprint 2 is divided into two sections meant to symbolize the duality of stardom.
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Hiphop DX
The Gift & The Curse wins because of Jay-Z’s experimentation and the fact that he didn’t try and make the same album again.
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Focus Hiphop
I don’t even think it’s Jay’s worst work at this point in his career.
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Uncut
we’ve heard too much of this before.
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