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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - At just about any given moment of any given day -- including this sunlit June Friday afternoon -- Jay-Z is a busy man. Sitting on a swivel chair at his Roc the Mic studios in ...

J. Cole looked back on the making of his verse for Jay-Z’s “A Star is Born” during the Dreamville Festival. On Sunday, during Cole’s headlining set, he reflected on signing to Roc Nation in 2009, ...

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