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 ...

Inevitably becoming one of the biggest forces in hip hop and one of our first billionaire couples, The game changed when ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook With the beginning of the rock revival thing last year, you’d never have suspected that 2001’s ...

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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 ...

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 The ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Sept. 8, 2009: The Blueprint 3 was the last album in Jay-Z's Blueprint trilogy, which started with the classic The Blueprint in 2001, and then ...

It may be hard for some fans to recognize or recall, but the rise of Shawn Carter aka Jay Z to rap alpha dog status wasn't immediate or a foregone conclusion. Those who are dismissive of Jay's ...

JAY-Z continues to show that his wealth is in another stratosphere. The Roc Nation maestro recently sported a timepiece valued at a small private island. As reported by Complex, Hov put on for the ...

'the blueprint 3' is the follow up to jay-z's instant classic 'blueprint' (2001) and the critically acclaimed 'blueprint 2' (2002); 'blueprint 3' is the final installment in the blueprint series. of ...

Kanye West and Jay-Z collaborated far before even West broke through hip-hop as a rapper. West would produce a few of Jay-Z’s records, and even helped create instrumentals for the first Blueprint.

Wale says he remembers one time that J. Cole got furious while on Jay-Z‘s Blueprint 3 tour. In an interview with Uproxx’s ...