5/5 THE GREATEST!!
  by JerseyGirl609 (Trenton, NJ)
I have liked hip hop since Kid and Play and Kwame. However, the Notorious BIG, Jay Z and Nas made me LOVE rap! Next to BIG Jay Z is the GREATEST, period! How can anyone dispute the numbers?? NUMBERS DON'T LIE!!!! Ok, back to the Blue Print: 3 another classic! Anyone that is hating on this album need to listen to it again. I think they are expecting JayZ circa 2000. He is a grown ass man now that is worth $400 million and married to THE HOTTEST chic in the game Beyonce who is worth just as much as he. Of course he is not rapping about the same things he talked about in Reasonable Doubt. That's just stupid! If you don't respect JayZ for nothing else you have to respect his empire. Respect his hustle! He has open so many doors for rappers! He made himself a BUSINESS! From the Marcy Projects to this! In the words of JayZ, "Men Lie, Women Lie, NUMBERS Don't!"

Oh, Blue Print:3 tour starting end of this year. If you haven't seen JayZ in concert please do!!! You will see what makes him a good artist! UNBELIEVABLE!

5/5 Blueprint 3
  by G. H. D. lll (Plainfield, NJ)
The blueprint 3 is very good from start to end. It might be one of the best albums of 2009. These young artist need to pay attention to real hip-hop and this album is pure hip-hop. Top 5 songs D.O.A., Empire State of Mind, Venus vs Mars, A Star is Born, and On to the Next One

5/5 i love the album
  by Tee (North Carolina, USA)
As some ppl stated in their review, Jay Z did not give a blueprint to the rap game. As for me, I am not paying attention to if his tracks reflected what he named his cd. Jay Z clearly knows what he is doing becuz he gave his entire album to Rhapsody and still sold albums. I love the entire album. D.O.A. was definitely a good track that should have knocked some ppl off of their high horses.

Jay Z can leave and come back in the game when he is 50 and still outsell whoever is rapping at that time. I love the album, like his others becuz he is still Jay Z, he is not and never tried to immulate anyone else and even with it being 2009, his songs are still so different and completely in another category to artists out there right now.

I would recommend the album. I love it. Keep doing ya thing Jay

3/5 3-1/2 stars -- He's still got a plan
  by Anthony Rupert (Milwaukee, WI)
Jay-Z is one of those artists who is sure to generate massive album sales by his name alone. But after stepping down as head of Def Jam (and then leaving the label even as a recording artist), not to mention the dissolution of Roc-a-Fella Records, Jay founded his own label, Roc Nation, where he released his latest album, The Blueprint3.

Looking at the album title alone, though, it can be said that the album is a continuation of previous albums with a similar name. The first Blueprint was pretty good (although I don't think it was a classic, like a professional reviewer from another website said), but The Blueprint 2 was garbage. And while this album isn't a classic either, it's still pretty decent. Most of the buzz from the album was due to a promo single called "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)". The very title made me applaud, but it also got some criticism, most vocally from the Game and DJ Webstar (to which America asked, "Who the F is DJ Webstar?"). Anyway, it's still one of the album's highlights.

And good songs don't stop there. The best songs are probably the singles, which are the three-in-a-row of "D.O.A.", "Run This Town" and "Empire State of Mind". The Pharrell-produced "So Ambitious" also good, and "A Star is Born" (featuring protégé J.Cole) is an interesting story. "Reminder" is also pretty decent even though its chorus isn't the most mind-blowing.

But there are also a few missteps. The tracks other reviewers didn't like are ones I didn't like either, especially "Hate", which is one of those cases where the song sounds like it's chopped-and-screwed, but it isn't. And if you think the presence of Timbaland on this album will produce some worthy tracks like "Lobster & Scrimp", think again: the sexual "Venus vs. Mars" sounds like a song Lil Wayne rejected, and "Off That" made me, well, turn off that (and although Jay's lyrics are on point on the latter, Drake's monotonous chorus doesn't help matters).

Another thing is that it's pretty hard to tell Jay-Z isn't on Def Jam anymore because there are so many guest stars on here. Anyway, everyone has been making their own comparisons, but I think The Blueprint3 maybe should have been called Kingdom Come 2, in that it's "just another" Jay-Z album. It may not be classic, but there're still enough moments on here to make it worth your while.

Anthony Rupert

4/5 Welcome Back Jay-Z!!
  by Benny Boom (Las Vegas,NV)
Please welcome back Shawn Carter aka Jay-Z to the world of hip hop..After the black album he fell off and his albums were not a solid effort and lyrically not the jay-z everyone loves.This album is a good solid effort with great production and lyrically is good but no classic by any means.If your a jay-z fan this is a must have for your collectioin and if your new to jay-z I would recommend with his first album reasonable doubt and albums following.