Blueprint 3 was an awkward ass album

[KillKenny]

Not really a bad album. For someone 13 years after his debut - it's better than what most rappers do at that stage.

 

[African Peasant]

Yea some weak tracks like Hate made it

fukked with Already home, What We Talkin Bout, Real As It Gets...

Whenever I hear this beat, I hink of this CLASSIC

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[28 Gramz]

This when I stopped listening to Jay like that, bruh just got corny af overnight.

 

[African Peasant]

Vol. 2 is Jay's most successful album.

It's a mid album full of features, not among his best

BP, Vol. 1, AG, Blueprint >>>

The worst culprist is Vol. 3, super weak outside of the singles and sold a lot

 

[Da King]

Embarrassingly bad album

 

[FlimFlam]

I remember during the Verzuz debates on here, some posters claimed that ESOM would win a round against NY State Of Mind.

I mean....ESOM is a cute pop hit and all but are you kidding me?

in a versus context i could see it outperforming Nas' song with the right sequencing and crowd

the crowd would have to be the dipset lox crowd for NYSTOM for its strongest chance... n it still might not be a given due to recency bias

 

[Tribal Outkast]

He was just trying to fit in that era’s style. It’s not a good album but I’m not too mad at it cause he got so many other joints to listen to. It just showed thar a Kanye co-sign wasn’t always a guaranteed good thing

 

[Gifted one]

One of the worst aged albums in his catalog. "Thank You" and "Already Home" is the only two songs that still hit good today. Everything else aged like bad milk.

Horrible especially coming from a great album like AG, the drop in quality is embarrassing, then came MCHG

 

[Wild self]

Actually, this album repeats the same mistakes of Kingdom Come: Jay attempting to "rewrite the rules" to stay relevant. MCHG suffers from the same.

And its like Jay Z took cues from T.I. for both Kingdom Come and BP3. Kingdom Come dropped the same year as T.I.'s King and Kingdom Come was like Jay Z answer to King being the only rap album to go platinum that year. Then T.I.'s Paper Trail started this trend of these huge stadium sized power pop rap records i.e. "Live Ya Life" feat. Rihanna.

Then there's the weird futuristic sound he was going for with the Timbaland tracks. Timbaland was struggling to find his sound after having a monster two years with Justin, Nelly, and his own Shock Value album, but the chemistry with Jay was off. MCHG was a better album IMO, but Jay was lazy lyrically and his once elite flow was showing signs of fatigue.

Then there's the Kanye/No I.D. songs, which were dope for the most part, but there was still "Hate" and "Young Forever". Awkward time for Kanye too as this was in transition from 808's going into the MBDTF era. Hip Hop was at an awkward phase as a whole. The Hipster/Blog era was something else with Wale, B.o.B, Kid Cudi, and them coming up. That whole Travis Porter, J-Money style comingnout of Atlanta. Flocka debuting. Gucci Mane breaking through the mainstream. Drake becoming the biggest rapper out. Cole impacting. Nicki Minaj impacting.

I understand the criticism about BP3 at that time period, but people wanted 90s rappers to still be on that dirty goons shyt on outdated, uninspired boom bap beats or weird trap beats talking about residing on pissy project hallways.

Hip Hop was at a transitional period

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Ain't no way in hell BP3 is worse than MCHG, because MCHG is one of the worst albums in history.

They had that shyt on vinyl for like 15 dollars with the plastic still on it and I passed

 

[SupaVillain]

just listened to forever young too

 

[cleanface coney]

you would have got kicked out the whip in 2009 detroit playing the shyt posted in this thread

Guwop/OJ bricksquad was in prime form

shyt really the south period

 

[CM_Burns]

KC had a couple mild hits and AG had no hits so this was Jay chasing hits and it worked. This and Magna Carta are his only albums I don't like, but it had a few good songs.

 

[L $ C]

KC had a couple mild hits and AG had no hits so this was Jay chasing hits and it worked. This and Magna Carta are his only albums I don't like, but it had a few good songs.

correct

 

[BK The Great]

It was Jay growing out of that street aura and going more mainstream, 7/10 album. Some corny songs but definitely not that bad. Might be his lowest album next to Magna Carta.