Some might consider Jay-Z’s The Blueprint to be one of, if not his biggest record.But for the grammy-winner, The Blueprint 3 might’ve been bigger than the first. If only because it proved that ...

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With a new album on the way, Jay-Z knew what the people wanted when he performed Friday night at Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut: a taste of the new songs. In one of only five U.S. Jay-Z Previews ...

As Jay-Z got prepared for his show at Madison Square Garden, he sat down for a video interview to talk about everything Barack Obama's election to the making of his hot new album, "The Blueprint 3.

The Blueprint 3 is the latest release by rapper Jay-Z; it's the second sequel to one of his best-known releases, 2001's The Blueprint. It's also Jay-Z's 11th solo album in 13 years, making him one ...

Of all the albums in Jay-Z's catalog, The Blueprint 3's cover is the first not to feature a photo of Jay, so naturally people questioned whether the BP3 image — a cluster of white-painted ...

We can wrangle with the moral implications of Jay-Z making a track like "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" when the very next song on Blueprint 3 has Rihanna (to say nothing of whoever's on the hook ...

The Blueprint 3 is Jay-Z's 11th studio LP and it became his 11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, breaking the previous record with Elvis Presley. It sold 476,000 copies in its first week ...

Flits from languidly combative to awkwardly obtuse and Jay-Z gets lost in the shuffle. The Neptunes’ synth-quirk production never quite clicks, and then it does, and then it doesn’t again. 14.

Jay-Z is on course to net his 11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 next week, as "The Blueprint 3" should cruise to the top of the chart.

Jay-Z's new "The Blueprint 3" is on par with his past work. Overall, it's a state-of-the-art performance by arguably the greatest to ever speak ghetto poems over music. Then why does it feel like ...