But though they were released just two years apart, the two have always struck me as fairly different. I realize this isn’t an unpopular stance. The other days (though never Saturday, because The Blueprint is definitely a Saturday-afternoon album) I say The Black Album. Mike Madden (MM): Most days, I consider 2001’s The Blueprint my favorite Jay album. The three writers digress on the LP’s status as a definitively New York record, the producers that helped make it so state-of-the-art, and how Jay’s legacy might be different if his final answer to “What More Can I Say?” had been “nothing.” For this edition of Dusting ‘Em Off, Mike Madden, Pat Levy, and Brian Josephs discuss The Black Album, Jay Z’s eighth solo LP, which turns 10 years old this week.
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