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The Dynasty: Roc-La-Familia is the fifth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, featuring prominent appearances from signees of Roc-A-Fella Records. [11] It was released on October 31, 2000, by Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings.
The Blueprint is the sixth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released on September 11, 2001, through Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings.Its release was set a week earlier than initially planned in order to combat bootlegging.
The following is a list of songs by Jay-Z organized by alphabetical order. The songs on the list are all included in official label-released, albums , soundtracks and singles , but not white label or other non-label releases.
[17] [18] T.I., Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, and M.I.A. (who was nine months pregnant at the time and supposedly due on the day of the performance) performed the song at Grammy Awards that year. This song was number 22 on Rolling Stone ' s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.
Fellow Voice critic Miles Marshall Lewis called Jay-Z "the best MC in hip hop" and Vol. 3… "the quintessential 2000-model hip hop album". [16] Soren Baker was less impressed in the Los Angeles Times , writing that the record lacks the "biting humor and spectacular wordplay" of his previous albums.
In July 2009, Jay-Z confirmed The Blueprint 3 as the album's title during an interview with radio station Shade 45. [5] By November 2008, he had finished the album but with lengthy negotiations with Def Jam, he went on to reworking it. [6] In January 2009, Jay-Z confirmed continued production of the album and admitted the leak of several songs.
Jay-Z stated in a 2011 interview that he was in Los Angeles preparing for the shoot when the September 11 terrorist attacks took place: I flew to L.A. I was shooting a video for a song called 'Girls, Girls, Girls,'" he began. "I'd dropped my album The Blueprint on the same day.
It is Jay-Z's best selling album as of 2013 and was certified 5× Platinum by the RIAA in 2000. By 2013, the album had sold 5,400,000 copies in the United States. [19] The album won Grammy Award for Best Rap Album at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards. Though he won the award, he boycotted the ceremony, citing what he sees as the Grammys' continuing ...