To most people, Talking Heads have got their own unique sound and style, but Johnny Marr thought he heard a heavy influence ...

Both The Blueprint and The Blueprint 2 rank highly among Jay-Z's best albums. In fact, in different ways, both projects are viewed as actual blueprints for how to craft excellent hip-hop music.

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The rare contract representing their collaboration was signed just days before the album 'The Blueprint' hit stores, despite being released on September 11, 2001. The historically phenomenal track ...

While nobody could have truly predicted just how far JAY-Z would take his career and Hip Hop as a whole, the crumbs of what would become his rise to power lay in his first-ever body of work.