![]() ![]() In January 2009, Jay-Z confirmed continued production of the album and admitted the leak of several songs. In July 2009, Jay-Z confirmed The Blueprint 3 as the album's title during an interview with radio station Shade 45.īy November 2008, he had finished the album but with lengthy negotiations with Def Jam, he went onto reworking it. But in an interview with the Rolling Stone magazine, Jay-Z called the statement "premature". On July 20, Timbaland, a frequent contributor to previous Jay-Z albums, told MTV News that he would be producing the whole album. ![]() 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. 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. Rolling Stone named it the fourth best album of 2009. Upon its release, The Blueprint 3 received generally mixed to positive reviews from music critics. 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. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 476,000 copies in its first week. 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. ![]() It is the final installment in The Blueprint trilogy, preceded by The Blueprint (2001) and The Blueprint2: The Gift & The Curse (2002). The Blueprint 3 is the eleventh studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released September 8, 2009, on Roc Nation. ![]()
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