That September 11 release date looks like a loooong way away the way this thing is leaking.We will have heard the whole record by then!! Its interesting that the Timbaland tracks are the first two to get leaked though…hmmmm
**Update… Here you go***
How would you react if you took a tripod in the back?
I always like hearing some commentary directly from the source about how or why they decided to make something. Here Jay drops a little of that insight for his “Run This Town” video.
Jay-Z confirmed that the graphic that hit the Internet on Monday (August 3) — a gaggle of white instruments piled together in a corner with three red horizontal lines over them — is the artwork for Blueprint 3. “It’s the album cover,” Jay told us Tuesday in Brooklyn, on the set of his Roc-A-Wear commercial. (more…)
from Rolling Stone
Jay-Z posted the above image — a cornucopia of white-painted instruments — on his official Website today, which implies he’ll be using the graphic as the cover of his eagerly anticipated The Blueprint 3. The cover echoes BP3’s aesthetic, Jay’s reliance on live instruments — he brought a 10-piece band with him for his All Points West performance — as opposed to studio trickery, which Jigga officially declared “D.O.A” with his first BP3 single. As for those three red streaks, we’re assuming it represents that this is the third Blueprint and not an homage to the equal sign on the cover of U2’s No Line on the Horizon.
More on Blueprint III and an official(unofficial) track listing …. (more…)
Forbes dropped their “Hip-Hop Cash Kings” calculations today and the list goes just about how you would expect.. ..
The top 3 guys go Jay Z($35m) Puff($30m) and Kanye(25m).. .. Find out the rest of the Top 10 when you keep reading (more…)
