Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 (Review)
10 platinum albums and 13 years later, we come to The Blueprint 3. Hove is a legend. Jay-Z is an intellectual beast. He’s a bag of Hot Cheetos with nacho cheese with a liter of Mt. Dew while watching Scarface in the comfort of your own condo with Beyonce and Megan Fox at your sides…. naked. Oh, and The Blueprint 3 sucks.
The Blueprint 3 isn’t about going back to roots, or even a throwback to the previous 2 Blueprint albums. The Blueprint 3 is about creation. Jay-Z wanted to show that he can innovate hip hop. That he can say “fuck you” to all the auto-tune junkies, and show that he always has the best producers. Usually in Hip Hop, innovation is about a change in style and sound. For those of you that don’t want to read what follows, my review can be boiled down into this:
The Blueprint 3 is the same shit Jay-Z has always done, except with more featurings and more cute synthesizers.
The Blueprint has that futuristic vibe, and WAY too many featurings. Production-wise, this isn’t Kanye’s usual east coast monster beats, or Neptune’s snazzy beats that Jay’s always sounded good over. While No I.D., Swizz Beats, and Neptunes produce it, Kanye and Timabaland both come in with the future. Using so many featurings makes me feel like Jay-Z wasn’t too confident. While there are a few good featurings, it’s interesting how Jay is sure to use people like Kanye, Drake, Cole, and Cudi; literally the top people right now.
The funniest part is that this is probably how Hip Hop is actually going to sound. We’re definitely getting to the “synthesizers are teh ausumnezz” point with a lot of producers, and Jay-Z making an album like this will inspire people to keep going with it. Knowing this site is part of the Real Talk Movement, I’d like to extend my hand across the table to Real Talk Reggaeton and make a comparison of BP3 to an album released earlier this year by Wisin & Yandel, La Revolucion (literally translated: The Revolution). La Revolucion promised to revolutionize latin music and bring forth something new. What did it end up being? The same shit, but with more synthesizers. Both La Revolucion and The Blueprint 3 are decent albums. Both are easily some of the best albums of 2009.
The issue is that when you’re one of the best EVER, you are held to higher standards. A Jay-Z album that is just “decent”, AFTER postponing the album for a year, is just abysmal. Jay-Z should, and CAN do better. No one give me any of this “he’s old now” bullshit. American Gangster was great, and in comparison to other heavy hitters like Ice Cube and Nas who released great albums last year, this is bullshit. The album was decent, not horrible.
It was, however, a horrible disappoint.
Am I dead wrong? I could be. Listen to the whole album on MTV’s the leak below, and have your own opinion.
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written by Naranjit0, September 08, 2009
i feel he needed better beats on this album
and wen i heard that timbaland didnt give him his best beats i was like dam that guy is a fag he possible ruined wat couldve been a great album
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written by ohmahgawd, September 08, 2009
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written by acllaim, September 08, 2009
i stand up and applaud the creativity in your album.
but focus more on talking about the actual album and what it holds rather than making the article funny. (you drew out a legit chuckle when i read the first pargraph)
I disagree. Other than the first paragraph which I just used to ease into the review, I focused solely on the problems of the album. What I didn't do is focus on single songs, because the main issue is about the whole album rather than a few tracks.
I agree with what you say but i do honestly think its top album of 09. The thing about this album is you have to take a listen to it a couple of times to like it.. other than that tho it wasn't anything amazing but its badass.
La Revolucion is also the top album of 09. You could argue Down to Earth was better just like you can argue Mos Def's "The Ecstatic" is the top album, right?
oh wow, oh well... if i may why didnt u compared this album to iDon? La Revolucion is actually way better than this and/or iDOn. iDon promised the same thing of revolutionazing el genero and he deff did not do that, ended up having some 3-4 good songs, while the rest of the album sucked..
just putting it out there, woulda have been a much more better comparison, lol
Because unlike iDon, this album was actually decent.
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written by ModaFoka, September 08, 2009
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written by Cristian, September 08, 2009
but focus more on talking about the actual album and what it holds rather than making the article funny. (you drew out a legit chuckle when i read the first pargraph)
you forgot to mention how this album already had 3 singles of which are already on the top 100 songs on the radio.
i agree with everything you said though. great job!
but thanks to you, i dont want to buy the album :p lol
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written by KikePR, September 08, 2009
just putting it out there, woulda have been a much more better comparison, lol
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written by WunaKo, September 08, 2009
Also Jay already announced he is workin on another album.. and says "its not going to be another #1 album." Cause he will be experimenting more than ever. (source MTV news mixtape daily)
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im actually not sure if i want to buy it though