2002: By the turn of the new millennium, Brooklyn rapper Jay Z had already begun his ascension from hip-hop to mainstream superstar and business man. His 2002 album The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The ...

Jay-Z will on April 8 release "Blueprint 2.1," featuring highlights from last year's Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam double-CD set "The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse," plus a handful of as-yet ...

Jay-Z The Blueprint 2 — The Gift & The Curse (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) Jay-Z must be taking his status as the king of New York hip-hop for granted. On the follow-up to 2001’s critically acclaimed ...

Hova seemed invincible after he dropped the Blueprint, but one year later, the Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse shows some chinks in his armor. Almost everything Jay-Z did right last year has fallen ...

There are holes in Jay Z ‘s hefty catalog on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music among other streaming services. The hip-hop mogul’s Blueprint albums — 2001’s classic The Blueprint, 2002’s The ...

This is Jay-Z’s 3rd ‘Blueprint’ titled release in as many years, and this time it’s an edited version of ‘The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse’. In an attempt to reclaim a bit of face he’s now ...

Jay-Z's Blueprint album series is finally available to stream outside of Tidal. Last night (May 22), fans who had not made the switch to Tidal rejoiced when they discovered The Blueprint 1, 2 and ...

JAY-Z ‘s The Blueprint is one of the few projects set to be inducted to the National Recording Registry. The rapper’s sixth studio album, considered to be one of his greatest works, will be ...

See original story from 10/2/16 below. Jay Z fans with Apple Music no longer have to consider changing their music streaming service to Tidal to hear some of the classic Blueprint series. 2001’s ...

Strike a balance between good and evil and you’ll find Jay-Z. He’s gone from hustling drugs in Brooklyn’s no-go zones to a penthouse on the Hudson River, and breathlessly ostentatious ...

The problem with being on top, as Jay-Z would no doubt attest, is that there's nowhere to go but down. It's not surprising, then, that The Blueprint 2 has led many to claim that the rapper has ...

What made The Blueprint so great was Jay-Z's opulent showbiz, magnifying his ego to global proportions. But can such an ego be tolerated over a double album? Alas, despite individually powerful ...