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*8 SEPTEMBER 2009*
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*15 TRACKS*
*60:44*
(roughly ~4 minutes / song)
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“WHAT WE TALKIN’ ABOUT”
(featuring ‘luke steele’)
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2
“THANK YOU”
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3
“DOA”
(“death of auto-tune”)
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4
“RUN THIS TOWN”
(featuring ‘rihanna’ + ‘kanye west’
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#5
“EMPIRE STATE OF MIND”
(featuring ‘alicia keys’)
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6
“REAL AS IT GETS”
(featuring ‘jeezy’)
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7
“ON TO THE NEXT ONE”
(featuring ‘swizz beatz’)
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8
“OFF THAT”
(featuring ‘drake’)
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9
“A STAR IS BORN”
(featuring ‘j cole’)
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10
‘VENUS’ vs ‘MARS’
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11
“ALREADY HOME”
(featuring ‘kid cudi’)
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12
‘HATE’
(featuring ‘kanye west’)
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13
“REMINDER”
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“SO AMBITIOUS”
(featuring ‘pharrell’)
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“YOUNG FOREVER”
(featuring ‘mister hudson’)
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Blueprint_3
The Blueprint 3 – Wikipedia
26-33 minutes
The Blueprint 3
Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3.jpg
Studio album by
Jay-Z
Released September 8, 2009
Recorded July 2008 – August 2009
Studio
Various[show]
Genre Hip hop
Length 60:44
Label
Roc Nation
Asylum
Atlantic
Producer
Shawn Carter (exec.)
Kanye West (also exec.)
No I.D.
Shux
Janet Sewell-Ulepic
Angela Hunte
The Inkredibles
Swizz Beatz
Timbaland
J-Roc
Kenoe
Jeff Bhasker
The Neptunes
Jay-Z chronology
American Gangster
(2007) The Blueprint 3
(2009) Jay-Z: The Hits Collection, Volume One
(2010)
Singles from The Blueprint 3
“D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”
Released: June 5, 2009
“Run This Town”
Released: July 24, 2009
“Empire State of Mind”
Released: October 20, 2009
“On to the Next One”
Released: December 15, 2009
“Young Forever”
Released: May 11, 2010
“A Star Is Born”
Released: June 25, 2010
The Blueprint 3 is the eleventh studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released September 8, 2009, on Roc Nation, through distribution from Asylum Records & Atlantic Records.
It is the third Blueprint album, preceded by The Blueprint (2001) and The Blueprint2: The Gift & The Curse (2002). Production for the album took place during 2008 to 2009 at several recording studios and was handled by Kanye West, No I.D., The Neptunes, Jeff Bhasker, Al Shux, Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon, The Inkredibles, Swizz Beatz, and Timbaland.
The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 476,000 copies in its first week. It became Jay-Z’s eleventh US number-one album, breaking the record he had previously shared with Elvis Presley, and produced five singles that achieved chart success. Upon its release, The Blueprint 3 received generally positive reviews from music critics.[1] The album received a nomination for Best Rap Album, while four of its singles “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”, “Run This Town”, “On to the Next One”, and “Empire State of Mind” won a combined six Grammys at both the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards and 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.
Background[edit]
The earliest hype over The Blueprint 3 came when DJ Clue released in January 2008 a mixtape song called “Ain’t I”, produced by Timbaland. In the intro, Clue says, “Off that Blueprint 3 baby!” However, a spokesperson for Jay-Z said that it was an old, unreleased song and that the recording of The Blueprint 3 had not yet started.[2] On July 20, Timbaland, a frequent contributor to previous Jay-Z albums, told MTV News that he would be producing the whole album.[3] But in an interview with the Rolling Stone magazine, Jay-Z called the statement “premature”.[4] In July 2009, Jay-Z confirmed The Blueprint 3 as the album’s title during an interview with radio station Shade 45.[5]
By November 2008, he had finished the album but with lengthy negotiations with Def Jam, he went on to reworking it.[6] In January 2009, Jay-Z confirmed continued production of the album and admitted the leak of several songs.[7][8] In a Billboard magazine interview, Jay-Z confirmed “What We Talkin’ About”, the album’s intro, “Thank You”, and “Already Home” as song names and collaborations with Australian dance group Empire of the Sun, rappers Drake and Kid Cudi and singer Rihanna.[6] He also mentioned in an interview with DJ Semtex that his favorite song on the album is “Empire State of Mind”.[9] The official track list for Blueprint 3 was revealed on August 18, confirming the guest appearances from Kanye West, Rihanna, Drake, Kid Cudi, Young Jeezy, J. Cole, Alicia Keys, and more.[10])
Artwork[edit]
The cover consists of a large amount of all-white instruments and recording tools stacked in a corner, with three red lines across the image. Rather than simply using photoshop, the album’s design team carefully stacked all the equipment in a corner then used a projector to create the bars. They then painted red onto the equipment where the projection of the bars was, and replaced the projector with a camera to achieve the correct perspective for the image. Blueprint 3 would be Jay-Z’s first album cover that did not feature his face on it.[11]
Recording[edit]
Most of the album’s recording sessions took place in Hawaii at Avex Honolulu Studio,[12] in an effort to avoid leakage. West’s protégé Mr Hudson explained to The Times that he “won’t get bothered there” compared to a major city such as New York or Los Angeles.[13] Sessions for the album took place during 2008 to 2009 at Avex Honolulu Studio and several other recording studios, including Germano Studios, Oven Studios, and Roc The Mic in New York City, Kingdom Studios and Lava Studios in Cleveland, Midnight Blue Studios and South Beach Studios in Miami, The Holy Chateau in Perth, Australia, and Westlake Studio in Los Angeles.[12][14]
Jay-Z told Rolling Stone his method of selecting producers: “If Timbaland makes ten great tracks then he produces the album, if Kanye West makes ten great tracks then he produces the album; if he makes three, I’ll take three. I let the music dictate the direction.”[4] However, the final track listing reveals, that West produced the majority of tracks on the album, and three done by Timbaland. West confirmed two songs, “A Star Is Born” and “Young Forever”, during an appearance on The Wake Up Show in February 2009.[15] Mr Hudson, who is the featured artist on the latter, described it as a flip on the Alphaville record of a similar name.[16] During a joint interview with Hudson, West confirmed that the pop artist would be featured on three songs.[16] Pharrell stated that he emailed “So Ambitious” to Jay-Z the day he was mastering the album. He loved the track so much that he put off the mastering.[17]
Release and promotion[edit]
The album was released September 8, 2009 on Roc Nation in the United States.[18][19] It was also released digitally on September 11, 2009 in the US, and its United Kingdom and international release followed on September 14 that same year.[20] Prior to its official release, the album leaked in its entirety on August 31, 2009.[21] When asked about the leak, Jay-Z stated “It’s a preview. I’m excited for people to hear the album. I’m very proud of the work I’ve done, so enjoy it”.[22]
The album’s first single “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)” was premiered on June 5, 2009 via New York radio station Hot 97.[23] On June 7, 2009 Jay-Z made a guest appearance at Hot 97’s Summer Jam concert, and performed D.O.A. live on stage, for the first time. On May 20, 2009, Jay-Z confirmed that he bought out the remainder of his contract from Def Jam Records in order to start his contract with Live Nation, as The Blueprint 3 was set to be released under Roc Nation and distributed by Atlantic Records.[19] In August 2008, Jay-Z performed the Kanye West–produced song “Jockin’ Jay-Z” during the latter’s Glow in the Dark Tour.[5]
Critical reception[edit]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
AnyDecentMusic? 6.3/10[24]
Metacritic 65/100[25]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars[26]
Entertainment Weekly B+[27]
The Guardian 3/5 stars[28]
The Independent 4/5 stars[29]
MSN Music (Consumer Guide) A–[30]
NME 8/10[31]
Pitchfork 4.5/10[32]
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars[33]
Slant Magazine 3.5/5 stars[34]
The Sunday Times 2/5 stars[35]
The Blueprint 3 received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 65, based on 22 reviews.[25] In his review for MSN Music, Robert Christgau called the album “fairly superb” and gave it an A- rating,[30] indicating “the kind of garden-variety good record that is the great luxury of musical micromarketing and overproduction”.[36] AllMusic writer John Bush compared the album to its predecessors, describing it as “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)”.[26] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly commented that the album succeeds at its goal of “reaching maximum commercial blast radius while maintaining its street bona fides”.[27]
The Daily Telegraph gave the album four out of five stars and complimented its modern sound.[37] The A.V. Club gave it a B+ rating and stated, “Jay-Z sounds liberated by his legacy rather than weighed down by expectations”.[38] Despite noting inconsistency in Jay-Z’s rapping, Jon Caramanica of The New York Times complimented the album’s varied musical elements and called it “an unexpected blend of maturity and youth”.[39] Pete Cashmore of NME commented that it “delivers because of hefty beats and quality rapsmanship, nothing else. And, ultimately, that’ll do just fine”.[31] Kiilian Fox of The Observer commented that Jay-Z is “maturing into a responsible elder statesman”.[40] Zach Baron of The Village Voice viewed that “much of Blueprint 3 is about the weird, meta-rap work of redefining what it is to be a boss” and stated “Jay-Z’s midlife crisis is over. Which doesn’t make The Blueprint 3 a classic. But we’ll take it. For now”.[41]
In a mixed review, Slant Magazine’s William McBee found The Blueprint 3 “predictable”, “complacent”, and “a hip-hop feast, for sure, filled to the brim with elite production and elite rapping, but it lacks the hungriness, the spirit, and the craziness that marks a classic album”.[34] Rolling Stone’s Jody Rosen called it “a catchy, pop-friendly record”, but viewed that it lacks the “electric charge” of Jay-Z’s previous albums and that he is “stuck for a subject […] But he says it well”.[33] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian wrote that it “peters out in a mass of indistinct tracks” following its first four songs.[28] The Sunday Times criticized the music’s “insistent straining for a crossover, pop-coloured sheen”, writing that it “mires much of the album in insipidness, coating stale braggadocio (without, mostly, any compensating humour).”[35] Pitchfork’s Ian Cohen commented that it is “so certainly Jay-Z’s weakest solo album, you’ll be tempted to wonder if Kingdom Come was somehow underrated”.[32] Greg Kot of the Los Angeles Times gave the album two-and-a-half out of four stars and viewed Jay-Z’s celebrity and older age as somewhat of a flaw, stating:
It’s tough for hip-hop stars to age well. Once they become celebrities living in mansions and starring in family movies, street cred is usually the first thing to go. Just ask Ice Cube. Longevity just wasn’t built into the hip-hop lifestyle, with its premium on youthful swagger, street tales and fast turnover […] ‘The Blueprint 3′ aims to show everyone he still has wicked skills on the mic. It does, even as it illustrates that sometimes he coasts on his celebrity […] The message: Don’t mess with ol’ Gray-Z.[42]
The Blueprint 3 was ranked the best album of the year by Billboard,[43] and seventh best album of the year by MTV.[44] Rolling Stone named it the fourth best album of 2009 in its year-end list.[45]
Commercial performance[edit]
The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 476,000 copies.[46] It serves as the third-highest first-week sales of 2009.[46] It became Jay-Z’s eleventh US number-one album, breaking the record he had previously shared with Elvis Presley.[47] In its second week, it remained at number 1, selling another 301,000 units, before dropping to second in its third week. After four weeks sales totaled 1,104,000 units. In the album’s fifth week it sold 75,000 copies bringing the total to 1,178,000 it is Jay-Z’s 11th solo album to go Platinum.[48] The album in its fifth week is also number 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. In its sixth week the album rose up 2 spots to number 3 on the Billboard 200, despite selling 65,000 copies, 10,000 less than its previous week. 53,000 copies were sold in the US in its seventh week, putting it at number 4 on the charts. In week eight the album sold 51,000 copies. In the next week album sold 48,000 units.[49][50] In next three weeks album sold over 100,000 copies and, as of May 2010, its sales in the U.S. stand at 1,748,000 units.[49][51] It is Jay-Z’s first album to have 3 Hot 100 Top 10 Hits.
The album was the 9th best selling album of 2009 in the U.S., selling over 1.52 million copies in 4 months,[52] the album is now at over 1.86 million sold and still in the Top 30.[53] The Blueprint 3 was the second highest selling hip-hop album of 2009 domestically. It was the 5th Highest selling Rap Album of 2010 according to Billboard.[54]
On the week ending July 29, 2012, The Blueprint 3 re-entered the Billboard 200 at 28. It has sold 1,933,000 copies in the US to date.[55] The album sold over 3 million records worldwide.
Track listing[edit]
No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
- “What We Talkin’ About” (featuring Luke Steele)
Shawn Carter
Kanye West
Ernest Wilson
Kevin Randolph
Frédéric Mercier
West
No I.D.
4:04 - “Thank You”
Carter
West
Wilson
Marcos Valle
West
No I.D.
4:10 - “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”
Carter
Wilson
Garrett DeCarlo
Dale Frashuer
Paul Leka
Janko Nilovic
Dave Sucky
No I.D. 4:15 - “Run This Town” (featuring Rihanna and Kanye West)
Carter
West
Wilson
Jeff Bhasker
Robyn Fenty
Athanasios Alatas
West
No I.D.
Bhasker
4:27 - “Empire State of Mind” (featuring Alicia Keys)
Carter
Alexander Shuckburgh
Jane’t Sewell-Ulepic
Angela Hunte
Alicia Keys
Burt Keyes
Sylvia Robinson
Shux
Sewell-Ulepic[a]
Hunte[a]
4:36 - “Real as It Gets” (featuring Jeezy)
Carter
Jay Jenkins
Maurice Carpenter
Leigh Elliott
Johnny Mollings
Lenny Mollings
The Inkredibles 4:12 - “On to the Next One” (featuring Swizz Beatz)
Carter
Kasseem Dean
Gaspard Augé
Xavier de Rosnay
Jesse Chaton
Swizz Beatz 4:17 - “Off That” (featuring Drake)
Carter
Timothy Mosley
Jerome Harmon
Aubrey Graham
Timbaland
J-Roc
4:06 - “A Star Is Born” (featuring J. Cole)
Carter
Scott Mescudi
West
Wilson
Jermaine Cole
Maurice Jordan
Al Goodman
George Medoro
West
No I.D.
Kenoe[b]
3:48 - “Venus vs. Mars”
Carter
Mosley
Harmon
Timbaland
JRoc
3:10 - “Already Home” (featuring Kid Cudi)
Carter
West
Wilson
Scott Mescudi
Harry Mudie
West
No I.D.[b]
Bhasker[b]
4:29 - “Hate” (featuring Kanye West)
Carter
West
Bhasker
West
Bhasker
2:31 - “Reminder”
Carter
Mosley
Harmon
Karin Briscoe
Timbaland
JRoc
4:18 - “So Ambitious” (featuring Pharrell)
Carter
Pharrell Williams
The Neptunes 4:12 - “Young Forever” (featuring Mr Hudson)
Marian Gold
Frank Mertens
Bernhard Lloyd
Carter
West
West 4:13
Notes
^[a] signifies a co-producer.
^[b] signifies an additional producer.
“A Star Is Born” features additional vocals by Tony Williams.
“Venus vs. Mars” features additional vocals by Beyoncé.
“Reminder” features additional vocals by K. Briscoe.
Sample credits
“What We Talkin’ About” contains a sample of “Spirit”, by Frédéric Mercier.
“Thank You” contains excerpts from “Ele E Ela” as performed by Marcos Valle.
“D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)” contains elements of “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” by Steam and also contains a sample of “In the Space” by Janko Nilović & Dave Sucky.
“Run This Town” contains samples of “Someday In Athens” by The 4 Levels of Existence.
“Empire State of Mind” contains samples of “Love on a Two Way Street” performed by The Moments.
“On to the Next One” contains samples of “D.A.N.C.E.” by Justice.
“A Star Is Born” contains samples of “Touch Me” by The Mother Freedom Band.
“Already Home” contains a sample of “Mad Mad Ivy” by Gladstone Anderson and the Mudies All-Stars.
“Young Forever” contains a sample of “Forever Young” by Alphaville.
Personnel[edit]
Artists
Jay-Z – primary artist (all tracks), executive producer
Luke Steele – featured artist (track 1)
Kanye West – featured artist (tracks 4, 12)
Rihanna – featured artist (track 4)
Alicia Keys – featured artist (track 5)
Young Jeezy – featured artist (track 6)
Swizz Beatz – featured artist (track 7)
Drake – featured artist (track 8)
J. Cole – featured artist (track 9)
Kid Cudi – featured artist (track 11)
Pharrell – featured artist (track 14)
Mr Hudson – featured artist (track 15)
Cassie – background artist (track 10)
Beyoncé – background artist (track 10)
K. Briscoe – background artist (track 13)
Technical
Tony Dawsey – mastering
Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton – mixing (tracks 1–4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 15), recording (tracks 1–12, 14, 15)
Ken “Duro” Ifill – mixing (track 5)
Chris Godbey – mixing, recording (tracks 8, 10, 13)
Fabian Marasciulloet – mixing (track 14)
Andrew Dawson – recording (tracks 1, 2, 9, 11, 12, 15)
Marcos Tovar – recording (track 4)
Karl Helborn – recording (track 6)
Miki Tsutsumi – recording (track 7)
Andrew Coleman – recording, digital editing and arrangement (track 14)
Luke Steele – recording (track 1, Steele’s vocals)
Ann Mincieli – recording (track 5, Keys’ vocals)
Dom Monteleone – engineer (track 1)
Jordan “DJ Swivel” Young – mixing assistant (track 5)
Ramon Rivas – mixing assistant (track 14)
Hart Gunther – digital editing and arrangement assistant (track 14)
Jason Wilkie – digital editing and arrangement assistant (track 14)
Production
Kanye West – production (tracks 1, 2, 4, 9, 11, 12, 15), executive producer
No I.D. – production (tracks 1–4, 9), additional production (track 11)
Shux – production (track 5)
The Neptunes – production (track 14)
Pharrell Williams – production (track 14)
Chad Hugo – production (track 14)
Angela Hunte – co-production (track 5)
Jane’t “Jnay” Sewell Ulepic – co-production (track 5)
Kenoe – additional production (track 9)
Jeff Bhasker – keys (tracks 1, 2, 9, 11, 12, 15), additional production (track 11)
Kevin Randolph – keys (track 1)
Additional personnel
The Carter Administration – A&R
Lanre Gaba – A&R administration
Fabienne Leys – A&R administration
Roc Nation – marketing
Eric Wong – marketing
Jana Fleishman – publicity
Sheila Richman – publicity
Roc Nation Management – management
Greg Gigendad Burke – creative direction & design
Dan Tobin Smith – photography
Michael Guido – legal council
Jennifer Justice – legal council
Renee Karalian – legal council
Charts[edit]
Certifications[edit]
See also[edit]
List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2009
List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 2009
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External links[edit]
The Blueprint 3 at Discogs
The Blueprint 3 at Metacritic
First Listen: The Blueprint 3 at Los Angeles Times
Jay-Z’s New Album: Nothing Old About It at The New York Times
A Track by Track Review: The Blueprint 3 at Spin
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