I'm sorry but Blueprint 2 fukkING SUCKED

[Budda]

Like most double albums, half of the album was dope, the other half was weak.

These joints were all dope:

Poppin' Tags
Some People Hate
Guns & Roses
Show You How
Meet the Parents
Hovi Baby
Some How, Some Way
The Watcher 2

It shouldn't have been a double. "Early This Morning", "People Talking" and "Murda Marcyville" should've been on it, and that would've been a complete dope LP. B.I.G. is still the only MC to pull off having a double with mostly classic joints. The double LP ain't for everybody.

I like Excuse me miss too never understood the hate it got.

 

[Canada Goose]

This was the first Jay Z album I ever heard. A lot of skippable songs but the highs were


I liked the song with Lenny Kravitz.


All around the world
Did it my way
Poppin tags
U Don't know remix (love MOP energy on this track)
Meet the Parents
BP2
Show you how
Guns n Roses
Excuse Me Miss
So many hoes (great comedy track)
Some people hate
Somehow Someway
The Watcher

All dope songs.



When Jay came back with the TBA as the next album though

 

[re'up]

I have good memories attached to this album, so I hold it in higher regards than the quality of the music might suggest. But there was some heat on there.

Same for Volume 3.

right, me too.

in retrospect, you can see how unfocused it was and an an attempt to cover every base/weakness, whereas The Blueprint 1 felt very from the heart, in terms of a little more vulnerability, really perfecting a new production style that was soulful and heartfelt, so sonically and lyrically it felt very aligned.

Whereas BP2 has that grandiosity to it, it's almost like in movies where a director has that breakout indie movie, and then a huge budget follow up/ Jay had all the money and all the resources, and kind of fumbled. Maybe the ROC being in kind of disarray was part of it. Someone made a great point in here, how the Neptunes beats from the LL album were fire. Imagine Jay over Luv U Better or All I Have, even similar song concepts.

You can tighten the album to 12 tracks and it still feels a little hollow to me, big budget but kind of lacking heart or theme. Poppin Tags is great in a sense, but it's also like what is the purpose of this? or All Around The World? For me you can hear Jay kind of struggling with how to approach his content and image. There's a sense of trying to redo older material too, a return to form, that doesn't 100% work either. The Watcher 2, and U Don't Know. And Meet The Parents having the same sample as Breathe Easy.

the sean paul track is pretty bad, but has this sick beat at the last 2 minutes.

Someone said adding Early This Morning would help and that's true, but that was recorded for Blueprint 1and it's clear, he had so much heart and soul in just that little 2 minute song.

 

[re'up]

A Dream
Diamond Is Forever
Excuse Me Miss
All Around The World
Poppin' Tags
Hovi Baby
Blueprint 2
What They Gonna Do II
U Don't Remix
Somehow Some Way

trying to do a 12 track version, without songs like Early This Morning or Show U How, and it's tougher than I realized. it's a bad album. that's like an EP. this is what I have.

 

[stave]

Y'all leaving off bytches & Sisters which is a superb sleeper track smh

It's way too many tracks on it but there was fire on both discs

 

[KingSol81]

Here go the nas stans pretending the title track was bad even tho he cooked yall mans

"Give me more flutes in my headphones Guru, let's proceed with the procedures proceeding this evening

I got my mojo back baby oh behave, ROC yeah, number one click yeah, throw your diamonds up yeah, ROC yeah

I'm sorry Ms. Gloria Valez is just is what it is"

Jigga gassed on the title track fasho.

 

[CM_Burns]

This album has way more skips than Jay's best albums, but has some fire too. Watcher 2, All Around The World, N1gga Please especially

 

[DaHNIC82]

Nas straight rattled him and it showed

 

[frush11]

beat sounds so dated and cookie cutter

Lots off Neptunes beats sound weak as fukk these days

 

[DrexlersFade]

Nas straight rattled him and it showed

Son was all over the place telling fake dream stories about BIG Ole "The Neverending Story ass nikka" All that fantasy garbage.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I have good memories attached to this album, so I hold it in higher regards than the quality of the music might suggest. But there was some heat on there.

Same for Volume 3.

It's the same for me with certain albums too.

As far as Jay's albums, Blueprint 3 along with Kingdom Come are the two I was definitely the most disappointed in. And like a few of his albums, Vol. 3 has tracks I still love, and others I can't believe he actually recorded and put on an album, lol. Some of his catalog is weird like that for me.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Definitely an album that convinces me that no matter how good your crew is, every rapper can be victim of the Yes Man Syndrome. Jay prob has the best crew of ears ever for a major rapper. Guru and Hip Hop picking beats while Just Blaze/Kanye/Bink compete for placements. Not to mention the legends that were constantly coming to D&D to drop off beats or listen to shyt. And despite all that he still fukked the double LP up. It def has good tracks, and I like some that others may consider corner (Guns & Roses) but...it's just bloated. Making a double album is like a career defining decision, given the rappers and albums you're competing with. It's just wild that no one has really gotten it right since Pac/Big/Wu.

 

[WaveGang]

I see I said, jealousy I said, get stoned everyday like Jesus said...say no more

Jay so corny looooool

 

[TrapHouse Rock]

album was mostly forgettable

but poppin' tags was HOT on the streets and everybody was shocked it wasn't a single/video for it

 

[ledge]

the blueprint 2.1 re release where they cut it down to 1 disc was pretty good

Nah they picked the wrong fukking songs. Kept that Sean Paul bullsh*t and cut out classic NO ID beats like “All Around the world”. And added that awful Swizz Beats “Stop”