Blueprint 3 is a guilty pleasure album. I like every track.

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

"Thank You" is one of the best Jay songs ever. but he also had GOD AWFUL shyt like Venus vs Mars. There's some dope songs on this album but as an album it wasn't that great. it was literally just a collection of singles put together, no cohesiveness, no direction.

I was gonna kill a couple rappers, but they did it to themselves
I was gon' do it with the flow, but they did it with their sales
I was gon' 9/11 'em, but they didn't need the help
And they did a good job, them boys is talented as hell
'Cause not only did they brick, they put a building up as well
Then ran a plane into that building and when that building fell
Ran to the crash site with no masks and inhaled
Toxins deep inside their lungs until both of them was filled
Blew a cloud out like a L into a jar, then took a smell
'Cause they heard that second hand smoke kills
nikkas thought they was ill , found out they was ILL
And it's like you knew exactly how I wanted you to feel

Hov floated on this verse to another level man. Witty, condescending sarcastic Hov is a different beast. BP3 caught alot of flack but it aged well

 

[Formerly known as...]

Magna carter was cool because of the release build up but the music isn't great at all.

Not sure what he was trying to do with it really.

 

[Ironman]

So Ambitious

 

[Izanami]

So Ambitious

Def one of Jays best motivation tracks I was in radiology school bumpin this particular track.

This album fits the volume series more than the blueprint. Jay most successful album commercially since vol.2 at that time. No need to juke the stats with telephone deals and such lol. I remember looking at the fake track list and ESOM was featuring Nas I was expecting a gritty record instead I got what felt like a Broadway record featuring Alicia Keys.

 

[SuburbanPimp]

Man look.... I enjoyed this album from the jump. Only song I don't really mess with heavy is "Off That" and Empire State of Mind got played out after some time interesting production choices, Thank You and Already Home are personal classics for me. I know it felt like he was trying to cater to the younger crowd and I'm sure he was. Thats part of how you stay relevant for so long. Whenever I'm somewhere and somebody plays a random BP3 song I'm always like

 

[Preach Jackson]

BP3 had solid tracks besides Off That, Hate, Reminder

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Magna carter was cool because of the release build up but the music isn't great at all.

Not sure what he was trying to do with it really.

Spoiler

Magna Carter felt like Jay got forced into a boardroom and talked into it. I remember all the commercials with Pharrell, Rick Rubin, Timbo, and all these other producers.

Honestly that whole rollout was mad pretentious. Way more pretentious than some people accuse the Black Album retirement DVD of being. I remember he had that "performance art" video thing for Picasso Baby where he performed the song like 6 hours straight or something like that.

And no offense to any of those producers, but they were all so rich and famous by that point that most of them were out of touch and just in their own little echo chamber of sub-par ideas.

Magna Carter sounds like someone's bad idea of a household name that decided to make an arthouse album.

I don't think any of us do.

 

[Formerly known as...]

Man I just listened to Magna Carter again today just to be sure and it's total ass. Definitely his worse album! No doubt

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Man I just listened again today just to be sure and it's total ass. Definitely his worse album! No doubt

It ain't worse than Magna Carter breh

But it's down there

 

[Mike the Executioner]

You ever hear the OG Just Blaze version? I like that beat better than the Timbo one.

No. Is there a link to that?!

 

[TheDarceKnight]

No. Is there a link to that?!

I got you tonight breh. I’ll post it here and tag you.

 

[Formerly known as...]

It ain't worse than Magna Carter breh

But it's down there

Magna carter is what I'm talking about. Sorry I should have been clear. Magna is ass!

 

[ThirdAct]

 

[IWasntMadeToPlayTheSon]

so ambitious, intro, thank you, empire, run this town and real as it gets are great the rest are garbage for the most part or at least forgettable

 

[vdfebduderocks]

Take away all the Timbo tracks from BP3 and it's not a bad album. Those Timbo tracks + corresponding leaks were mostly poo. Kanye also gave Hov some solid beats, albeit many were B-rated beats, It was Kanye's practice run that ultimately morphed itself into MBDTF. It's all interconnected in a weird way.

BP2 suffered from Hip Hop/Guru telling Hov to make a double album. Blueprint 2.1 is what BP2 should have been.

MCHG was simply a business experiment that probably led to other business ventures post-2013. Super experimental though, like take 3 of the bigger producers at the time (Tim, Pharrell, Swizz) along with a few others and make an album. Ultimately this session led to the Beyonce sessions and Tim/Pharrell gave Beyonce the better hits. Hit-Boy too.