Of all the albums in Jay-Z‘s catalog, The Blueprint 3‘s cover is the first not to feature a photo of Jay, so naturally people questioned whether the BP3 image — a cluster of white-painted instruments ...

Hip Hop icon Jay-Z made history this week when debuted at the top of the Billboard Top 200 charts this week. It was the rapper's 11th top album, pushing him past Elvis Presley as the solo act with 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 ...

Knowing you guys, you not only knew Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 leaked several days ago, but you grabbed it instantly, and gained some nice ratio buffer in the process. Oh, and you listened to it many ...

On September 11, Jay-Z will release The Blueprint 3, eight years to the day of the release of his double platinum album The Blueprint. Fresh from his $5 million split from Def Jam Records (the amount ...

When Kanye West said there would be no Auto-Tune on Jay-Z‘s upcoming Blueprint 3, he meant it emphatically: The first single off Jigga’s third Blueprint, fittingly called “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune), ...

Eight years to the day after hip-hop superstar Jay-Z released his benchmark album, The Blueprint, he’ll return with his long-awaited new record, Blueprint 3. It will be released on Sept. 11, the date ...

Leah Greenblatt is the former critic at large for movies, books, music, and theater at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2023. Like fellow un-retirees Cher and Brett Favre, Jay-Z knows the value of ...

Rappers Rule the Green Carpet at the 2026 Met Gala Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z, Young Thug, OutKast and Missy Elliott Picked as Part of the 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters By The New York Times ...