| The Blueprint 3 | 
| Artist: Jay-Z
Label: ROC NATION
Category: Music
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Rating:  35 reviews
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 520856
UPC: 075678958663
EAN: 0075678958663
ASIN: B002DMJM66
Release Date: September 14, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | What We Talkin'- About Jay-Z + Luke Steele (Of Empire Of The Sun) | | • | Thank You | | • | D.O.A. - (Death Of Auto-Tune) | | • | Run This Town - Jay-Z + Rihanna + Kanye West | | • | Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z + Alicia Keys | | • | Real As It Gets - Jay-Z + Young Jeezy | | • | On To The Next One - Jay-Z + Swizz Beatz | | • | Off That - Jay-Z + Drake | | • | A Star Is Born - Jay-Z + J. Cole | | • | Venus Vs. Mars | | • | Already Home - Jay-Z + Kid Cudi | | • | Hate - Jay-Z + Kanye West | | • | Reminder | | • | So Ambitious - Jay-Z + Pharrell | | • | Young Forever - Jay-Z + Mr Hudson |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Theres a first for everything February 23, 2010
Mr. Jordan Williamson (Jarrow, North East UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Perhaps its because of all of the stars that feature in this album, but this album is a piece of genius, there is not one song i dislike, obviously i like more than songs than others but to anyone pondering the purchase of this album I personally suggest that you listen to a few tracks on spotify and make your decision, if you dont want to use spotify then just buy the album, afterall nothing ventured...
Top Album February 23, 2010
Underground King (New York, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jay done well with this album - compared to the other 2 Blueprint's i can listen to this start to finish.
Well done
 A good album January 23, 2010
MusicalProdigy (Nottingham)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
All the reviews giving this album anything lower than 3 stars have kind of missed the point a bit. Yes, it has a commercial feel to it as jay-z tries (arguably a bit too hard) to cover the full spectrum of fans. However, this does not diminish the quality of the tunes or the lyrics. Tracks like 'Venus vs Mars', 'A star is born' and 'Thank you' contain very impressive wordplay while 'on to the next one' is a good track to dance too. Maybe where the album falls down a little in my opinion is the inclusion of 'reminder' and death of auto-tune'. 'Brooklyn we go hard' , 'History' and 'Jockin Jay-Z' may have worked better. But that's just my opinion! All in all, this is a very enjoyable album which I would recommend to anyone. It is nowhere near as bad as Kanye West's '808s and heartbreak' but is not as authentic as the original blueprint or Talib Kweli's Beautiful Struggle.
 A Disappointment... September 5, 2009
D101 (Dub, Irl)
27 out of 34 found this review helpful
Contrary to what I just read the 'Blueprint 3' is far from "absolute quality"...The supposed follow up to 2001's critically acclaimed 'Blueprint' & 2002's 'Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse' (though in truth the three albums have little if anything in common other than their name) comes after a long wait. In September 2008 'Swagga Like Us' was released - a great single which we were led to believe would appear on both 'Paper Trail' & 'The Blueprint 3'. This was followed by 'Jockin' Jay-Z', 'Brooklyn (Go Hard)' & 'History' - the latter a wonderful Kanye West produced track in homage to the newly elected President Obama. The signs looked good for the forthcoming album...but this proved to be a false dawn.
The album starts off well enough - 'What We Talkin' About' is a solid track featuring flavours of the month Empire of the Sun. One of the album's best tracks 'Thank You' precedes the two lead singles 'D.O.A.' & 'Run This Town'. 'D.O.A.' is a great song but for me the radio friendly 'Run This Town' is weak. I usually love pretty much anything produced by Kanye but for me this is a pop song put on the album to sell records. 'Empire State Of Mind' brings me to a recurring problem with the 'Blueprint 3' - namely good verses, bad choruses! Alica Keys' hook doesn't work for me at all. Similarly the hooks on 'Venus Versus Mars' & 'Reminder' are dismal. As a consequence these Timbaland produced tracks are two of the album's worst. The other track produced by Timbaland 'Off That' featuring Drake (another flavour of the month) is probably the best of the three but in truth none of these songs are worth remembering. They sound like something Timbaland had left over that took him 5 minutes to produce. It is hard to believe this is the same person who gave us 'Dirt off Your Shoulder'.
The album cover alone conveys the move by Jay-Z to try & come out with some 'futuristic sound'. 'Hate' is a great example of how this doesn't work. This is not the typical "chipmunk Soul" we are used to from Kanye. More filler tracks include the Swizz Beatz produced 'On To The Next One' & The Neptunes produced 'So Ambitious'. It's not all bad though! 'Real As It Gets' featuring Young Jeezy is a very solid tune, whilst 'A Star Is Born' & 'Already Home' featuring Kid Cudi (another flavour of the month...but the real thing in my opinion!) are two of the best tracks on the album. Perhaps the song that will split opinion most on the album is the Kanye West produced 'Forever Young' featuring Mr. Hudson, which samples the 80s song of the same name by Alphaville. With this song you are either going to love it or hate it. Right now I am of the opinion that it is a good song but I do think I could get sick of it very easily.
Overall the `Blueprint 3' is a solid album (probably 3.5 stars but definitely not 4). You put it on and you will enjoy it. But is it a masterpiece?! Is it a fitting end to the Blueprint Trilogy that started so well 8 years ago?! Probably not! This album is a step forward from the abysmal `Kingdom Come' but a definite step backwards from `American Gangster'. In terms of `Reasonable Doubt', `The Blueprint' or `The Black Album...it doesn't even come close! I'll end with something another reviewer said on another site..."Jay-Z's like a classic rock group (like, say, U2); we expect him to keep delivering same-old, same-old new music, but are we going to like the Blueprint 3 more than we liked the old classics?! No!"
 Not a classic by a long shot September 14, 2009
B. Thomas (London)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
You've got to respect Jay-Z's success and he's impressive live, but only Reasonable Doubt, The Black Album and, at a push, The Blueprint 1, can be viewed as essential amongst his mass of albums. The Blueprint 3 follows his habit of producing overly commercial, hit and miss albums. You get the impression that he doesn't have that much input in the beat making process and is too reliant on the likes of Kanye West and Pharrell Williams producing him radio-friendly hits. I'm also not enjoying Kanye's recent trend of using a voice vocoder, someone needs to tell him that it's extremely annoying!!
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