Ok, again I have to apologize for another Jay-Z post, but Blueprint 3 leaked today, and it’s exciting!  There’s something about getting my hands on exclusive music that gives me a nostalgic feeling, like when DJ Clue tapes used to come out back in high school and there would be a new Biggie song to start off Side A.  I remember stopping to see Black at his tape spot on Fordham Rd. back in ’99 and he gave us In My Lifetime Vol. 3 on CD like a month before it dropped.  That was crazy.  And I had Blueprint (the first one) dumb early too.  Today it’s different.  Anyone can get something early, if you know the right spots to go on the internet.  You don’t have to go to the hood, the hood comes to you!  I’ll let you find it on your own, but you can sample my two favorites below, that is of the ones I hadn’t heard before today.  “Thank You” is really dope.  Like, REALLY DOPE.  And “Hate” is some next shit, featuring Kanye West, which I’m digging too.  They kinda go back and forth on it in a fly way.  Both songs are produced by Kanye West (“Thank You” is co-produced by No I.D.) and hit me the hardest during my first listening session.  Enjoy, and of course, check out the Rhapsody sponsored commercial above for Blueprint 3 where Hov changes clothes to recreate each of his album covers.  It’s very well done.  Cheah!

“Thank You”

“Hate”

Shout out to my boy J. Tunas, one of the biggest Jay-Z fans I know, and my boy Kareem down in Maryland, who is the other biggest Jay-Z fan I know.  To the rest of you, I promise the next post won’t have anything to do with Jay-Z.  Maybe.