Jay-Z Drops The Blueprint 3 Album - Today in Hip-Hop

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Sept. 8, 2009: The Blueprint 3 was the final album in Jay-Z’s Blueprint trilogy, which began with the basic The Blueprint in 2001, after which continued with The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse in 2002. On at the present time in 2009, the Brooklyn rhymer accomplished the triumvirate by dropping BP3 in retail shops in all places.

The Blueprint 3 is Jay-Z’s eleventh studio LP and it turned his eleventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, breaking the earlier document with Elvis Presley. It bought 476,000 copies in its first week of launch.

The album is notable for “Empire State of Mind,” his anthemic ode to his beloved hometown of New York City, which dominated the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 5 consecutive weeks. The track options singer-songwriter Alicia Keys and title-checks most of the metropolis’s historic landmarks.

The challenge additionally delivered 4 extra singles that have been huge hits in the months after it got here out: “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune),” “Run This Town,” “On to the Next One” and “Young Forever.”

The Blueprint 3 is taken into account to be the album that helped Jay-Z go from a mere hip-hop star to probably the most well-known individuals in the world. The success of “Empire State of Mind” and his rising status as a businessman and mainstream superstar icon raised his profile considerably in the years because the album’s launch.