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by rocafan on 10/24/2003 08:11:00 AM

Blueprint Review by Joe Budden

*Just found this thought it was cool, cause I like Joe Budden

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT he was on one route, Jay-Z came and changed the entire game all over again. The majority of that album was food for thought. It wasn’t about the flashiness at all; it was all about soul, from the into to the bonus cuts. Even the into summed it up: “I’m represent’ for the seat where Rosa Parks sat/ Where Malcolm X was shot, where Martin Luther was popped.” You have to go back to those days of great speakers just trying to change the times and that’s exactly what The Blueprint came and did. It taught people and it changed hip-hop.

A classic grows on you and never leaves. The Blueprint was a clean-the-house album. You leave it on and don’t skip anything. Even the commercial joints were different. He took risks. “Hola, Hovito” wasn’t “Big Pimpin’.” Even a single like “Girls, Girls, Girls” wasn’t you typical girl song. The humor, the storylines and details, it was real vivid. Jay was extremely creative. He slowed the shit out of Michael Jackson for “Izzo (H.O.V.A)” and still had it in the clubs. He may be the king of anthems. “U Don’t Know” had a nigga with $1 singing “one million, two million, three million, four.”

I think this was superior to Reasonable Doubt because we’re talking about 2001. This is an advanced Jay. It sounded like hungry Jay. I’ll take seasoned Jay over rookie Jay all day long. Aside from Jay being such a phenomenal lyricist, Kanye West and Just Blaze have to get Producers of the Year for this album. They must have been mad ‘cause they came out with the heat. I don’t think there was a beat made without that soul sped up shit from everybody before this. You can go to a producer all day long and say you want soulful, but they delivered.

Source: The Source Magazine 8/03 issue

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