Welcome to Week 9 of our Book (Album) Club! This weeks album is The Blueprint by Jay Z.
Please give the album a fresh listen and give us your thoughts, opinions and possibly hot takes.
Doesn’t matter if this is your 100th time listening to the album or you listen to the album the first time right before posting!
November 21st: Blac Sabbath by Blacastan
November 28th: Ready to Die by The Notorious B.I.G.
December 5th: Sincerely, Detroit by Apollo Brown
December 12th: Unstoppable by The Reminders
The elephant in the room on this album is Renegade, which famously had Eminem wash Jay-Z on the track. Nas even mentions it on Ether.
That said, in hindsight, does anybody feel like Jay’s verses weren’t worse than Eminems’? Em’s flow was pretty much unmatched during this era, but I feel like I appreciate Jay’s verses more as time as gone on. I see the, both as pretty equal at this point.