Blueprint

Q: 3 out of 5 stars - "...Drenched in slinky, '70s soul samples this time round, the hooks, and inevitably the hits, just keep on coming."

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Format: Vinyl LP (2 Records)

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Vinyl LP Details

Number of Records: 2
Released: September 11, 2001
Originally Released: 2001
Label: Roc-A-Fella

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 1/03/02, p.119

Ranked #5 in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 2001".

Spin - 1/02, p.76

Ranked #7 in Spin's "Albums of the Year 2001" - "...Dig the planet's most charismatic egoist flowing like Cristal....Punk record of the year? Fo'sheazy!"

Entertainment Weekly - 9/28/01, p.72

"...Jay spits his outlaw boasts and pimp-slap toasts with the same cooly obstreperous flow that's always gilded his thug-life cliches..." - Rating: B-

Q - 12/02, p.67

Included in Q Magazine's "The 50 Best Albums of 2002."

Q - 11/01, pp.122-3

3 out of 5 stars - "...Drenched in slinky, '70s soul samples this time round, the hooks, and inevitably the hits, just keep on coming."

Uncut - 12/01, p.108

5 stars out of 5 - "...The sonics here are relentlessly ear-catching. Almost every tune sounds like a hit..."

The Wire - 1/02, p.40

Ranked #12 in Wire's "50 Records of the Year 2001".

Vibe - 1/02, p.74

Rated as Vibe's "Best Album" of the year, 2001.

Vibe - 11/01, pp.145-6

5 discs out of 5 - "...Like a bookend [to his forst album 1996's REASONABLE DOUBT], or the second key on a double-bolt lock. Only better...he is our cleanest poet, rethinking space..."

NME (Magazine) - 12/29/01, p.59

Ranked #4 in NME's 50 "Albums Of the Year 2001".

NME (Magazine) - 10/6/01, p.41

8 out of 10 - "...Eloquently maps out life's foundations: laughter, tears, joy and pain, and marks the Jigga as the complete rapper..."

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.Ruler's Back
2.Takeover
3.Izzo (H. O. V. A.)
4.Girls, Girls, Girls

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.Jigga That N!#*A
2.U Don't Know
3.Hola' Hovito
4.Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)

Tracks on Disc 3:

1.Never Change
2.Song Cry
3.All I Need
4.Renagade - Eminem, Jay - Z

Tracks on Disc 4:

1.Blueprint (Momma Loves Me)