New Vibrations: Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
Under the kindest interpretation allowable, Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 should probably be received as a sort of cultural reformation project.
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Under the kindest interpretation allowable, Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 should probably be received as a sort of cultural reformation project.
American Gangster is a concept album not merely "inspired" by Ridley Scott's heroin flick, but a musical reconstruction of Jay-Z's past life as a dope slinger, mirroring and resonating with the iconic Frank Lucas. Moral ambiguity, champagne, rises, falls - it could all make for a swell artistic mélange, and Jay-Z sure is certain it does. But at this point all we really want is the old Jay-Z who had more interesting things to talk about than good credit scores and picking out dinnerware sets with Beyoncé or whatever it was he was rapping about on last year's Kingdom Come.