The Blueprint 3 by Jay-Z

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 What We Talkin' About (feat. Luke Steele) 4:04 7,785
2 Thank You 4:09 85,209
3 D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune) 4:15 133,244
4 Run This Town (feat. Rihanna & Kanye West) 4:34 28,945
5 Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys) 4:36 268,593
6 Real as It Gets (feat. Young Jeezy) 4:12 35,533
7 On to the Next One (feat. Swizz Beatz) 4:16 50,551
8 Off That (feat. Drake) 4:05 37,011
9 A Star Is Born (feat. J. Cole) 3:06 33,477
10 Venus vs. Mars 3:10 81,876
11 Already Home (feat. Kid Cudi) 4:29 40,202
12 Hate (feat. Kanye West) 2:30 35,235
13 Reminder 4:11 73,874
14 So Ambitious (feat. Pharrell) 4:12 31,202
15 Young Forever (feat. Mr Hudson) 4:13 4,691

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About this album

Released: 8 Sep 2009 15 tracks (60:02)
The Blueprint 3 is the eleventh studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released September 8, 2009, on Roc Nation. It is the final installment in The Blueprint trilogy, preceded by The Blueprint (2001) and The Blueprint2: The Gift & The Curse (2002). Production for the album took place during 2008 to 2009 at several recording studios and was handled by Kanye West, The Neptunes, Jeff Bhasker, Al Shux, Jermone Harmon, No I.D., The Inkredibles, Swizz Beatz, and Timbaland.

The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 476,000 copies in its first week. It became Jay-Z’s eleventh US number-one album, breaking the record he had previously shared with Elvis Presley, and produced five singles that achieved chart success. Upon its release, The Blueprint 3 received generally mixed to positive reviews from music critics. Rolling Stone named it the fourth best album of 2009.

Background

The earliest hype over The Blueprint 3 came when DJ Clue released in January 2008 a mixtape song called “Ain’t I”, produced by Timbaland. In the intro, Clue says, “Off that Blueprint 3 baby!” However, a spokesperson for Jay-Z said that it was an old, unreleased song and that the recording of The Blueprint 3 had not yet started. On July 20, Timbaland, a frequent contributor to previous Jay-Z albums, told MTV News that he would be producing the whole album. But in an interview with the Rolling Stone magazine, Jay-Z called the statement “premature”. In July 2009, Jay-Z confirmed The Blueprint 3 as the album’s title during an interview with radio station Shade 45.
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