The Blueprint 3 is Five Years old Today.

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Inb4 Antidope is tracking Jay Z album release dates.
2009: The Blueprint 3 was the final installment in Jay Z’s Blueprint trilogy that started with 2001′s instant classic The Blueprint and continued on with The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse in 2002. BP3 was Jay Z’s eleventh studio album and became his eleventh album to debut at number-one in the United States, breaking the record he had previously shared with Elvis Presley. It sold 476,000 copies in its first week before topping out at 1.9 million copies sold as of today.

The album is notable for featuring Jay Z’s first single to hit number one on the Billboard 200 charts. “Empire State Of Mind,” an anthemic ode to Jay’s hometown of New York, was the first single to hit that benchmark in a career that dates back to 1989. The song featured singer/songwriter Alicia Keys and name-checks many of the city’s historic landmarks. The album also produced four other singles that produced significant chart success in the months after the album’s release.

Today, The Blueprint 3 is credited as the album that helped transformed Jay Z from mere massive hip-hop star to one of the most recognizable faces on the planet. The success of “Empire State Of Mind” combined with his growing reputation as businessman and mainstream celebrity icon raised his profile significantly (even for him) in the years since the album’s release. The album was his first album to achieve three Billboard Top 10 hits and would receive positive reviews from critics.
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For as much lukewarm reception as this album got, I thought it was easily the second best album that came out of the second half of his career at that point. It had a Volume 3 type feel to me, where you could tell that the aim was to make a commercial album, but it was also real quality.

The only black mark on this album is Death of Autotune, which I'm sure he knows. If his aim was to really stop the prevalence of autotune in hip-hop, that didnt happen but song was dope to me.

So Ambitious is the only song on here that is ehh to me, the rest of it is 
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Just wait until Thursday when I make the Blueprint 1 thread.


Listening to BP3 right now :pimp: :pimp:
 
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This album ain't even worthy of an appreciation date thread
Blueprint 1 on the other hand......
 
This is a good *** album :smokin :smokin
DOA
Run this town
So Ambitious
A Star Is Born
Empire State of Mind
Thank You
Already Home
Young Forever
 
Already home and so ambitious are good songs even for an artist of jayzs calibur
 
I played the hell out of this album when it dropped.

Wasn't a particular standpoint in his catalog, but I rock with it.

Jockin' Jay-Z :pimp:

I still randomly say "Chill baby girl, my giiiirrrlll is heeeeyyyaaa" from time to time :lol:
 
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