The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse was the seventh studio album released by rapper Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z. It was released on Nov. 12, 2002, on the Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings ...

The album released in the '00s that you're most likely to find near the top of a list of "the greatest hip hop albums of all time," however, is "The Blueprint." Whether it is better than Jay-Z's debut ...

On one of the most tragic days in American history, September 11, 2001, Jay-Z dropped what many consider to be his defining masterpiece, The Blueprint. Released on Roc-A-Fella Records, the album was ...

JAY-Z served up one of the best albums of his career on this day 24 years ago, despite all the turmoil happening in his life and the United States in general. On September 11, 2001, Hov delivered his ...

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. Decades ...