Jay-Z - Making of The Blueprint 2 - Recording 40 songs in 1 month - 2002

With more than 40 songs in the can, Jay gives us a look at the making of The Blueprint 2 and what inspired his experimental direction.
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[@teoifolis]

BP2 criminally underrated

[@bdot187um]

Agreed.

[@OfficialAdhd83]

Blueprint 2 The gift and the curse was a fire Double Album..........I was bumping it non-stop, got my heart broken by my first love........And that Album healed my pain but my favorite Jay-Z Album is Life and Times of S.Carter Vol.3 besides in my life time vol.1 and American Gangsta

[@SleepyDominoes-020]

My first song is not on the bp2 😴 thats the black album sir 😴

[@OfficialAdhd83]

@@SleepyDominoes-020 I never said anything about my first song moron learn to read......I know every song Jay-Z made and every Album goof ball.......You're sleep wake up dick head

[@UptownWatta]

Bp2 was a huge letdown esp off bp... Jay knew it and that's why it came out a month later with just one disc

[@OfficialAdhd83]

@@UptownWatta It was a let down to you speak for yourself, To me it was a classic

[@donjohnson2758]

If it was only one disc, it’d be a bonafide Classic tbh

[@mexia23]

This is great all these Jay Z clips appreciate it

[@Kamelody-kn9gw]

Blueprint 1 and blueprint 2 are crack . Amazing albums

[@Mookaron]

An you know this...

[@ghostpaidkilla1246]

DEEP

[@sbrooks904]

Yikes at saying bp2 is amazing lol

[@pedrogates3189]

S Brooks the second disc is great he could’ve saved that 1st disc for the garbage except for I did it my way and hovi baby add those two tracks to the 2nd disc and it might’ve been a classic

[@kiowabrady5246]

S Brooks amazing is a stretch but It’s Highly Underrated

[@BillieDaveHart]

I wish Hov & Young Chris did more together

[@pedrogates3189]

Billie Dave Hart shit him and Chris also I would’ve like to hear him and cam together on a heatmakerz track from back then

[@BillieDaveHart]

pedro gates indeed bro 💯

[@pedrogates3189]

Billie Dave Hart word bro I think hov would’ve floated on that I’m ready beat

[@moffat2151]

You realize sway is one of the G's in the game

[@pedrogates3189]

And one of the first that had multiple hov interviews early on

[@CORENyc-pn4vz]

Blueprint 2 was truly a Slept on Album

[@kiowabrady5246]

Very Much So If He Would’ve Taken Off Too Many Hoes And As One And Put In show You How And Bitches & sisters As Actual Album Cuts Instead Of Bonus Cuts it would be rated A Little differently

[@CORENyc-pn4vz]

@@kiowabrady5246 I agree Totally on the Substituting those Tracks

[@JuJuOlo]

My favorite i dont understand the problem

[@JuJuOlo]

@@kiowabrady5246 disagree the album had a nice blend. I appreciated those bonuses and i feel why they didnt fit. I actually didnt like the bp 2.0 bp 2 was great as a double disc but not a strong enough a typical ep. Ruined it for me

[@donnyfortino5579]

Sway broke the record for how many times he could ask the same fuckin question using different words

[@illwitness]

Lol!

[@Mookaron]

Hov make it seem so easy! We all know it's not though! ♐

[@pzigotnofilterp7882]

When you say "it" what exactly do you mean? Just curious ...

[@Mookaron]

@@pzigotnofilterp7882 The way he go in the booth & lay it down. He make it look easy.

[@Mocean696]

48 laws of power

[@robertmikegary6625]

So fuckin true, HOV is that dude

[@EHN2024]

He was born to do it

[@ybklyn87]

🐐

[@richrxzzle8832]

bro where u get these clips
soo fucking good

[@coogieman4659]

Jay-z is Roc-a-fella records Brooklyn nyc 🔥 🔥

[@III15CRiMEY]

_--HOV DONT📝-_-

[@gumbothicky5609]

Ugh.....hmm....Amen

[@SpadeworkMedia]

BP2 sounds like it was made in a month. A lot of Jay duds 😂

[@brice5244]

Blueprint 1 was made in less than a month so it doesn’t mean anything

[@yeau2732]

According to young guru, just blaze and them it took him a year to finish blueprint 2. I think in this interview he meant it took him a month to record majority of it

[@pedrogates3189]

Like the plug he tried to give young Chris right here , you can tell out the whole Roc crew besides beans n bleek , jay fucked with Chris neef n freeway ....seems like he separated from sparks after give it to me

[@emberkedves6330]

Killers

[@siyabongabhongoza939]

His not a free spirited person ! lol

[@garcia9242]

Blueprint was Just crazy good I Remember when I was 3rd bumping that album still have it !!! Blueprint2 was good it’s under rated in a lot of ways in 2002 I was in 4th grade I didn’t really understand the lyrics till I got older. And I’m a big Jay fan .

[@heatherheadley1704]

Master of his craft!!
I IDENTIFY WITH THE SOUL OF THE ARTIST🎨 👨‍🎨
The genius thing we did is that we didn't give up. - Shawn Corey 'Jay Z' Carter.

[@kistobeel1359]

Blueprint is good double album👍🏾 and hot producer

[@tpgail]

I love that he dares to do Rap with Rock! Sets him apart from the rest. He's the BEST.

[@moonflower6607]

He's not the only one to do it though

[@evelyntaylor4470]

RUN DMC did it with Aerosmith!

[@L-ski274]

LL cool j aswell