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What I love about The Blueprint 3

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TheQuailman
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First off, its a pretty fucking good album.  Production and guests are top notch.  Jay-Z spits some good flow.  Its a top notch album besides its small shortcomings.

But what I love about it is how popular and mainstream it is.  I mean I know its Jay and Rhianna and some other popular artists.  But I consider this a long awaited legitamite hip hop.  And look, people know about it and are listening to it.  I just checked the top ten on itunes.  The top song was Empire State of Mind.  Run this Town and Young Forever were also on the top ten. 

Yea I understand, this album is still a mainstream album.  It was built/produced that way.  But come on, this is a huge step.  Finally people are listening to at least some decent stuff and not this Soulja boy shit.

I don't know maybe I'm just excited because its the first time in a long time since the stuff that I've liked has become popular.

Sep 15 2009 5:01PM
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VT_scratch
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i feel you


but are they all gonna turn shitty in like 2 months when every single fucking radio station plays them like 3 times an hour?

thats what happened with kid cudi here.
Sep 15 2009 5:11PM
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Cudder.
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ive listened to Empire state of mind at least 700 times
Sep 15 2009 6:45PM
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WhiteBurd
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interesting, my opinion is that this is a main stream album, the quality could be better, its almost wack but i still can listen to it. his old stuff id twice as good as this
Sep 15 2009 7:27PM
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Peter.
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same, i play it on repeat in the car, that and jockin jay z
Sep 15 2009 8:00PM
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garettnorthey
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"N**gas like my old shit, buy my old album" - Jay-Z
Sep 29 2009 12:35AM
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freeskibum82
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still a fan of On To The Next One and Off That more than empire state of mind.
Sep 29 2009 8:31AM
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lydiaiskwllol
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Iv been thinking the same thing
Sep 29 2009 8:57AM
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ja.
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lol
Sep 29 2009 1:22PM
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Ben.
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love the album. well most of it. couple not so great songs.
Sep 30 2009 1:29PM
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Mooserz
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Jay Z is a very smart business man and he knows exactly what hes doing. as for my favorite song, its On to the next one
Sep 30 2009 11:35PM
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dr_phil
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I only like ESOM, Run This Town, the track w/ Cudi and Thank You. (great beats)

I can't endure the production on the other tracks. It's utter shit.

As for lyrics, Jay isn't at his best, but he's fucking talented.
Oct 1 2009 12:01AM
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