Jay-Z “The Blueprint III” Full Album Review!!!

I was so ready for this album to drop, originally scheduled to release September 11th 2009 but due to heavy pirating and internet leaks from Timbaland’s camp the album was pushed up to the 8th! It was well worth the wait!

Track List:

1. What We Talkin’ About Featuring Like Steele of Empire of The Sun

2. Thank You

3. D.O.A (Death of Auto-tune)

4. Run This Town Featuring Kanye West & Rihanna

5. Empire State of Mind Featuring Alicia Keys

6. Real As It Gets Featuring Young Jeezy

7. On To The Next Featuring Swizz Beatz

8. Off That Featuring Drake

9. A Star is Born Featuring J Cole

10. Venus vs Mars

11. Already Home Featuring Kid Cudi

12. Hate Featuring Kanye West

13. Reminder

14. Ambitious Featuring Pharrell

15. Young Forever Featuring Mr Hudson

The majority of the album was produced by Kanye West and Timbaland but also features cuts from Swizz Beatz, NO I.D, The Incredibles and Pharrell Williams.  The tracks above highlighted in red are the best of the album, many of them some of the most impressive cuts of Jay-Z’ career!

The mogul/entertainer/iconic mc talks his sh** on “Real As It Gets”, “Run This Town”, and “On To The Next” a fire production that harks back to Beyonce’s “B’Day” album and is gonna burn the clubs up!!!

The Hov’s queen B wife and “heir” Lil Wayne are the only two artist that don’t make cameos on the third set of blueprints and I think he was perhaps trying to make a statement with that gesture. Maybe that he doesn’t need either of there hype to slay the game. Jay didn’t collaborate with B on her latest album “I Am Sasha Fierce” but did appear on “The Carter III” on a track called “Mr Carter”. This new album proves that Jay is not only a great business man but still one of the best rappers/artist recording modern music.

“Run This Town” is currently #2 on the Billboard Hot 100  and though no one has been able to vanquish the Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling”, the track gave the album the buzz it needed to spear all the buzz necessary for the Jay-Z mania we’ve seen the past month or so.

“Empire State of Mind” is a great track that if not makes you almost want to be a New Yorker definitely inspires a visit to the big city and currently sits at # 5 on Billboard!

My favorite song on the album “So Ambitious” talks about all the people in his life that doubted him, didn’t believe in him and how that gave him the fuel to become one of the most successful men in the music industry.

The album shifted 420,000+ units it’s first week. The Hov is SLAYING the game!!!

TrueClefMusic Rating: 4.00 out of 5

Cop the Blueprints IMMEDIATELY!!!!