Both The Blueprint and The Blueprint 2 rank highly among Jay-Z's best albums. In fact, in different ways, both projects are viewed as actual blueprints for how to craft excellent hip-hop music.

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says a major music manager who’s inked branding deals to support album releases ... of the entire deal closer to $30 million and say Jay-Z likely received as much as $7.5 million in music ...

This one's easy: JAY-Z's 13th studio album is produced by ... before on Run This Town and D.O.A. (both off of The Blueprint 3 album), as well as on Holy Grail featuring Justin Timberlake (part ...

When Kanye West heard the instrumental for ‘D.O.A.’, he knew that it was the perfect beat to diss autotune on before Jay-Z did.