[Blog] Jay-Z Breaks Down The Blueprint 3 Album Cover

by MrWhiteFolks on August 4th, 2009

"These things are like the forgotten pieces in hip-hop. It's still about music. It's not about radio, making gimmicks — it's still about making music. Those things are piled in the corner. These are the forgotten things about music. It's still about music. It's not about radio, it's not about making gimmicks, it's about music. The three stripes that everybody is asking about is made from the original [number] three. The first three they made on the wall was someone carving. If you look at [the number] 3, all they did was connect lines. The whole thing about this album, how I approached it, is that I wanted to make a new classic to start that all over again — to go back to making classic albums like the ones we grew up listening to." -Jay-Z

via MTV

 

 
 
 
 

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rudeboy2213 months ago
a new classic…huh well this shit better be fire cause 1 and 2 was raw as fuck
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paymecash3 months ago
^^^^ YEAH AS LONG AS THE MUSIC IS DOPE WHO CARES WHAT THE COVER LOOKS LIKE.
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regulator3 months ago
lol jay-z has 1 classic album— reasonable doubt.. blueprint is good too— but although this tracklist looks good.. this album will prolly not be that great.. i hope he proves me wrong but im really just not a big jay fan like that— i dont see whats so special about this guy that everyone calls him the best.. i dont judge a rappers skill by how much money they got.. so to me hes far from the greatest.. and he will never top his first cd..
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domo2023 months ago
the blueprint wasnt a classic? wtf is wrong with your ears that shit got a xxl in xxl magazine and thats fucking hard to get reasonable doubt was a classic the blueprint was a classic the black album was a classic and american gangster was a classic thats 4 classics get your facts straight fuck nigga
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fivestarstunna3 months ago
i agree with all those being classic except american gangster..
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dagod3 months ago
Jay got way more than just 1 classic. Like domo202 said, he got a handful. From ‘96-’03 no body consistently made more hot music than Jay.
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jpouy3 months ago
Everybody always sleeps on American Gangster! How many flaws can you find in that album!?!? Some people try to say that Hello Brooklyn was the downfall… But he rode the beat perfectly and the metaphors were legit in that song! Do yall LISTEN to music or do yall jus skim through it!?
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dantheman3 months ago
I’d say scarface has had a longer consistent rune in music than Jay, Still like Jay better though
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juggernuatpeezy3 months ago
Blueprint was Jay’s best album y’all could disagree if y’all want but I think that’s his best and only great album…even better than Reasonable Doubt…I never seen Hova as a great rapper but everyone else does so IDK…I think he’s good but not great…I hope this album is as good as the Blueprint…because there is already a whole bunch of controversy around it so who knows.

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ruthless3 months ago
how can he say it’s not about radio when he jus did a gay ass song wit rihanna and kanye jus to get radio play smh


ill pass on this album Jay-Z jus ain’t the same no more
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gitmunny3 months ago
run this town is betta than all tha otha bullshit they play on tha radio n u cant judge albums by tha 1st single anyway… bp3 might jus b that classic that we need
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ajballa3 months ago
and D.O.A was the first single anywayz technically
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getatchyaneckyo3 months ago
DOA was the street single and im guessing Run This Town was the commercial single
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jaffar3 months ago
nobody cares. the music better be good. thats it!
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shade3 months ago
“to go back to making classic albums like the ones we grew up listening to.”

That is what the fuck I’m talking about.. I can’t wait until this auto-tune infused pop that we’ve been forced to call Hip-Hop dies out; because of the fact that the artists who deserve to shine don’t get any, and the rappers that don’t deserve shine bask in the glory. It’s a shame because most the artists that formed this new era are often called ‘The GOAT’ or ‘Best Rapper Alive’, when in all honesty they don’t even hold a candle to the pioneers that birthed this music genre… smdh at what Hip-Hop has become.
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ruthless3 months ago
“to go back to making classic albums like the ones we grew up listening to.”

how can you believe that after hearin that wacc ass “run this town” song


don’t let jayz fool you
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domo2023 months ago
run this town was wack? nigga u must be crazy that song was fire i dont care about the album cover because im still gonna cop it that will sound so fucking dumb if somebody say im not copping the album because what the album cover look like who gives a fuck what the album cover look like i got a feeling this shit gonna be a classic
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macadon043 months ago
Incarcerated rapper Shyne will be released on October 6, after serving over 8 years in a New York prison for his role in a shooting inside of a New York City nightclub.
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macadon043 months ago
JAY-Z wants to SIGN SHYNE PO I HOPE NOT HE WANT EVEN PROMOTE BEANS, BUT NEWS IS SHYNE WILL BE COMING HOME OCTOBER 6TH
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daydymez3 months ago
don’t yall niggas understand,,beans ins’t promotable ,,beans already has his fan base,,he’s not gaining or,, loosin nothin,,beans is good,,sick of hear that bullshit about jay not helpin beanz,
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rodlonc113 months ago
The way Jay talkin, this album just might be another classic under his belt!
Reasonable Doubt=Classic
Blueprint=Classic
The Black Album= Classic
*Honorable Mention: American Gangster(Great Cd, Classic IDk!)
and Blueprint 2( IMO the most underrated and slept-on CD in recent history!)
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daydymez3 months ago
yea i can go with that ,,what about KINGDOM COME!!!,,lmfao naw im playin,,that was his worst,,but yea i can’t wait for this album
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radamez3 months ago
Cant forget Hardnock Life
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theory7773 months ago
TRIBE OF DAN!!!
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skitzo3 months ago
im definately going to cop this album even if jay stole the album cover from "U2"and the group known as “the secret machine”
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dooflinky3 months ago
noe is that nigga now!
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sadamiddin3 months ago
HEY DOO NOE SOUNDS JUST LIKE HOV TOO. HATERS NO SPEAKY!
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macadon043 months ago
JAY Z IS A GOOD RAPPER, BUT AS A BUSINESS MAN HIS ARTISTS GET NO SHINE WHAT S SO EVER
JAY -Z I BET ANYONE IF HIP HOPS LIVING LEGENDS WAS TO START OFF WITH JAY 10 TIMES OUT OF 10 THEY WOULDNT NOT GET ANY SHINE, I FEEL SORRY FOR J.COLE, I HEARD HE IS PREETY HOT TO.IF DAME DASH WAS STILL THIER EVERYBODY WOULD SHINE, ROCAFELL HAD A FUCKING ARMY OF B+ ARTISTS WHERE ARE THEY AT NOW LOOK AT M.O.P


SO PLEASE GET OFF THE TIP OF JAY-Z"S DICK PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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radamez3 months ago
You got him confused with Puff. Beans, Memphis, Kanye, Cam…..all got Gold or Platinum plaques fucking with Jay. If Dame was that dude like you seem to think why none of the cats I mentioned especially Kanye go with him?

Some niggas you just cant market…you can not force the public to buy something they dont want. M.O.P. will not move any units because no one but hardcore hip hop heads will fuck with these guys. Not in even 50 cent could help M.O.P. Kanye is the type of nigga that went out and marketed himself and didn’t wait for the label do it. Beans that’s my motherfuckin dude but that nigga got issues.
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macadon043 months ago
SO IF YOU WERE A LABEL HEAD/CEO IF YOU KNOW YOU COULDNT PROMOTE A CERTAIN ARTISTS THEN WHY FUCK WITH HIM/HER ONLY TO HAVE THEM SIT FOR 5 YEARS JAY/LABELS FUCKING WITH PEOPLES LIVES I MEAN HOW YOU HAVE A NICOLE WRAY AND NOT PUT HER OUT AND SO ON
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radamez3 months ago
It’s called a tax write off. That’s how the game is played….hate it or love it. Name another rapper that put as many niggas on as Jay has?

Nicole Wray??? Since when she was fucking with the ROC. I thought she was Missy Elliott’s artist.
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macadon043 months ago
WITH NICOLE WRAY I WANT TO SAY IN 03 SHE HAD A VIDEO/SONG CALLED IF I WAS YOUR GIRLFIREND WITH THAT NIGGA DAME DASH IN THE VIDEO.NOW HERE IT IS NO MORE ROCAFELLA ITS CALLED ROC NATION IF YOU ASK ME THE REAL ROC LOOK MORE LIKE A TIGHT NITT UNIT, AFTER DAME LEFT NIGGAS/CAREERS ON MILK CARTOONS NOW, LIKE BLEEK, BEANS,DJ CLUE,STATE PROPERTY,NORE,PEEDI CRACK, OR YOUNG STEFF..IF YOU ASK ME GAY-Z DOES NOT BEILEVE IN ARTIST DEVELOPMENT THATS WHY THEY PROBALLY NOT SELLING LIKE THEY SHOULD…..
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radamez3 months ago
Let me get this right….Nicole Wray does a song/video and Dame was in the video and that’s your proof that she signed with the ROC? Wow! I think you getting your info from milk cartons. Do some homework.

Maaaan…I asked you several questions…can I get an answer?

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sthamogul3 months ago
Since these dick heads are saying Run This Town is garbage, I challenge someone to name 5 songs that are being played on the radio now INCLUDING DRAKES TRACKS that are better.

I honestly think Jay-Z has more haters then Lil Wayne at this point. He’s only given us consistent good music, bought out Kanye, Ne-Yo, RIhanna, Jeezy, and Rick Ross to name a few but YET people will say he didn’t promote Freeway and didn’t let Joe Budden come out. He’s the GREATEST RAPPER EVER just off the fact you go by total body of work and consistency. I will say that him approching 40 its taking away from his credibility but we need to appreciate him for who he and what he’s given hip-hop.

If these so-called other artist who’s he’s supposedly holding back were better they would’ve found a way to get they’re shine.

-words from Tha Mogul (not a Jay-Z stan, just someone who appreciates good music)
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moneymike3 months ago
Blue Print , Kingdome Come , Resonable Doubt , Black Album , BP2 , american Gangsta. thats my order so far.


The Cover is THE NEW CLASSIC ALBUMS which means the cover is the opposite of blue.
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justblaze083 months ago
man is it me or like the whole good music label is on his album i know kanye is making majority of the beats but damn it look like a good music compilation album and im mad as hell justblaze not doing any tracks he made the blueprint famous too with his signature sound
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weezysucks3 months ago
The Black Album is my favorite, CLASSIC
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somerville3 months ago
People use “Classic” too much now.
Classic this, Classic that.
Just release a good album, and if it’s great and stands the ‘test of time’, it’ll be called a classic without the rapper needing to declare it himself.
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leftyduvall3 months ago
whoa, even the cover has a message.

and not one cornball guest appearance?? I mean, other than drake.

Ye and No ID produced the whole joint??

I don’t remember ever being this excited over an album.

ooooo wait, Slaughterhouse in 6 days!!
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johnny3 months ago
Gay-Z is old lame and wack. Nigga i’m in the hood i can’t remember the last time i heard a nigga playing Jay unless it was his old shit.. Ya’ll jay dick riders let it go!! He hating on most of the new hot rappers !! We 2 pac was getting at his homo ass the nigga didn’t say a fucking word back.. FUCk GAY-Z Nigga’s in da hood can’t relate to that trash!
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whoyoube3 months ago
“nigga’s in the hood’ doesnt need an apostrophe, dumb nigga. go back to school
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phillyeagle3 months ago
ever look at the flag of washington dc? it has 3 red stars horizontally across with 2 red stripes underneath. now that flag of dc represents the three major city-states in the world aka the “empire of the cities’’. these 3 city states basically have their own laws, rules, and rack in billions of dollars tax free. this goes way deeper into the rabit hole. but those 3 red stripes look very familiar. did u hear jay say they represent the original 3? hmmmmmm. also, this might be obvious, but one of the riches families in the world and a family that pretty much runs the currency system in the us are the rockerfellas. and of course jay-z company is rocafella(and now ’’roc nation”). furthermore. the kingpin of the rockerfellas wad “J-D” Rockerfella and whos the kingpin of the roc? “Jay-Z”
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critikal3 months ago
it’s about music….. if you didn’t hear the first five times
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leftyduvall3 months ago
@phillyeagle:

interesting…

@johnny:

shove those straps up ur ass and eat a dick sucka!
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villydakidd3 months ago
Jay z still hot>>he iz a legend wit a lot of fans…iam not 1 of his biggest fans but i knw makin gud musik aint eazy, but he keep cumin up wit brand new ryhmes and ideaz..musical genius
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dannyblow3 months ago
I HOPE IT’S DIFFERENT ! ! ! AND HOPE HE PUT TAKEOVER 2 OR A BP3 TRACK ON IT LAST MIN THO
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dakush4203 months ago
one of the most consistent…makes hits but keeps it real hip hop he was never on no auto-tune bullshit my nigga buried that shit if anything….BP3 could be classic
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