Z’s favorite track on The Blueprint 3 would also become one of mine. Well, I Didn’t forget but I was surprised that Mr. “Empire State of mind” is another track worth mentioning, featuring Alicia Keys, this is the inevitable track off every Jay-Z album is this to remind you that he’s from New York City, in case you forgot, and he LOVES his city, in case you forgot. For being produced by Kanye West this track is really simple, there are not a lot of fancy production fades and cuts that I do think that West is really good at but the simplicity of the horn and clap track layered with a chirps piano and smooth chorus make this track stand out. “A Star Is Born” might be my favorite, it relays heavily on the horn sample from “Touch Me” by Mother Freedom Band. The Majority of The Blueprint 3 is typical Hip-Hop, tracks that would make great background music at a party with a few tracks really standing out to me. Hudson and ahhh I think I am forgetting someone… Oh yeah Kanye West, why would he produce a track without getting him self in on it at some point. Kid Cudi, Alicia Keys, Drake, Young Jeezy, Rihanna, Pharrell, J.Cole, Luke Steele from Empire of the Sun, Mr. Of course what would a Jay-Z album be with out a laundry list of notable featuring artists. Within this album I found a few cleverly hidden samples, some really obscure, “Someday in Athens” by The Four Levels of Existence in “Run this Town” and others a little more notable “D.A.N.C.E” from Justice is fairly notable in “On to the Next One.” Samples from Alphaville, Gladdy’s Allstars, Mother Freedom Band, The Moments, Janko Nilovic and Dave Sucky and Frederic Mercier can also be found on this record. Mars,” “Reminder,” and “Off that.” Pharrell only throws down one track on this record via “So Ambitious.” From a production take on The Blueprint 3, there is a definite departure from typical New York Hip-Hop style while still holding down that BK grit. Apparently Kanye won, with Timbaland putting his name on only three tracks, “Venus vs. I let the music dictate the direction” explains Jay. Hudson “if Timbaland makes ten great tracks then he produces the album, if Kanye makes ten great tracks then he produces the album if he makes three, I’ll take three. Jay-Z told Rolling Stone that he was bringing in a team of supper producers including Timbaland, Swizz Beatz and Kanye West and his protégé Mr. Kanye West produced a good sixty percent of this record. I am not a huge Jay-Z fan, more so of a Kanye fan, but by default I think that makes me a Jay-Z fan I guess. I got The Blueprint 3 kind of on accident. Despite the fact that Jay-Z traveled all the way to Hawaii to record, the Blueprint 3 is still leaked, someone must have got on an air craft with a copy, what is the TSA doing! I know, right, a hip-hop record leaking, impossible! NO, really it did.
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