Memories of 'The Blueprint'

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

Never Change

Never really liked it

I think the overall strength of the album may have carried that song for me. As I'm listening to it in my mind, yeah, it wasn't that great. But just put the CD on play and I never found a need to skip.

 

[HoLLaBaCK]

I remember the first day I hear it. I was doing searches on Aimster (I think) for day's nothing would come up, The 1 night I did my search as usual and jackpot, I DLed each song individually , I didn't even have a track listing for it. I just burned them shyts on a disc and jumped on my bike and met a couple of friends at my boys house. We bumped the album and played Goldeneye (yeah we was still on it) all night!

I remember being completely blown away by the album. It just felt like it was right on time, musically and lyrically that shyt was just right to me. I can remember that shyt getting bumped out of every whip on the block for awhile. I know everyone feels some kinda way about this album but to me it will always be classic.

 

[Won Won]

Hearing "U Don't Know" online before the album came out had me geeked. I remember driving to the mall to buy it during a 2 hour college break, and seeing 20 people huddled around the TVs at a Radio Shack.

Asked a woman what was going on and she told me, "a plane flew into one of the twin towers." I didn't even believe it at first. Didn't listen to the album until later that night since I was glued to the radio/TV

 

[re'up]

I still think 'Early This Morning', would have elevated the album a lot, as the intro, with a second verse would have been perfect. The rest of the tracks, I can take or leave, but 'Early This Morning' is too ill. LOL at 'Addicted to the Game', with that hook, imagine that shyt on there.

 

[god shamgod]

The whole fall 2001 hip hop was on point

Blueprint,escape from new york mixtape featuring nas,Dmx the great depression(album was trash but people were still checkin for x),stillmatic,bulletproof wallets,ludacriss word of mouf all dropped in the fall

And the anticipation of nas response to takeover was the biggest buzz cuz that dropped last

 

[Big Mel]

I still think 'Early This Morning', would have elevated the album a lot, as the intro, with a second verse would have been perfect. The rest of the tracks, I can take or leave, but 'Early This Morning' is too ill. LOL at 'Addicted to the Game', with that hook, imagine that shyt on there.

I had that white label with all those scrapped songs.

Murder, murder marceyville
Early this morning

I forget the others

 

[Newark88]

I remember a few days after 9/11, I copped the Blueprint from Target and copped Ghetto Fabolous from Brother Akbar on Broad and Market downtown Newark for $3. All on the same day lol

 

[CHAIN]

Can't deny it is one of the wackest songs of all time. Beat sounds like robots farting.

Lol! I always liked that song

But the blueprint is monumental, Big Mel‘s be a man comment gave me a flashblack, digital bullet was fire but as a wu fan I was mad cause I knew it wasn't better than the blueprint.Ain't No Love is too soulful...damn

yall remember how wack that love song on digital bullet was, I believe it was called shady, The first beat I ever made on fruity loops sounded like that but it was a bit better.

 

[re'up]

The whole fall 2001 hip hop was on point

Blueprint,escape from new york mixtape featuring nas,Dmx the great depression(album was trash but people were still checkin for x),stillmatic,bulletproof wallets,ludacriss word of mouf all dropped in the fall

And the anticipation of nas response to takeover was the biggest buzz cuz that dropped last

'The Great Depression' had that 'Who We Be' though, that shyt got a lot of spins....'THE DOG THE TREE THE CAT THE LAWNMOWER'...I liked that shyt. He was dissing the Lox on there. East Coast had a great run in 2001, Jada, Beans, Jay, Nas.

 

[fantabolous]

Never Change

Never really liked it

 

[Newark88]

Who remember the Blueprint commercials they use to play on Hot 97 when Jay was talking about "Don't let me push my shyt up tomorrow" because it was originally suppose to drop a week or 2 after 9/11. But due to the bootlegging, they decided to push the album up.

 

[Big Mel]

Lol! I always liked that song

But the blueprint is monumental, Big Mel‘s be a man comment gave me a flashblack, digital bullet was fire but as a wu fan I was mad cause I knew it wasn't better than the blueprint.Ain't No Love is too soulful...damn

yall remember how wack that love song on digital bullet was, I believe it was called shady, The first beat I ever made on fruity loops sounded like that but it was a bit better.

Digital Bullet by no means was a great album but it had a handful of amazing Rza performances.

Now, ain't no love was weak to me because k def had made that sample way more gully and cinematic years earlier on the real live album.

That's the crux of why blueprint was bland to me. It was reactionary stock soul flips that paled in comparison to true soul found on Supreme Clientele.

 

[re'up]

Who remember the Blueprint commercials they use to play on Hot 97 when Jay was talking about "Don't let me push my shyt up tomorrow" because it was originally suppose to drop a week or 2 after 9/11. But due to the bootlegging, they decided to push the album up.

I remember it got pushed up. Man, I used to be so jealous of NY and Hot 97, all the freestyles, having to read updates about dudes killing shyt on Flex show, or whatever, trying to find streams. You guys should appreciate that shyt, you think your radio is bad....there isn't even a rap station in San Diego anymore. It's just house and top 40.

I remember thinking there might be unheard tracks, but nah. Remember the Izzo video? Jay and Dame seemed like brothers man.

 

[CHAIN]

Cmon man, don't do that...just appreciate the album for what it is.

And Supreme Clientele was a personal classic to me @ the time, all of a sudden its normal to consider that album a classic, most ppl ignored it when it came out, shyt was slept on and swept under the rug by ruff ryders/cashmoney/rocafella/murder inc/eminem/nelly and those other movements....I'm glad it stood the test of time

 

[Big Mel]

Hot97 was utter trash by then. I rarely ever listened.