How old was you when the blueprint came out?

KamPushMe wrote: »

I was 3

You gotta be the youngest cat on this site....right now anyway

15

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Kat wrote: »

Okay I was 21 then.

Old ass lol

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I was 16 in CT. Didn't buy it. Someone lend it to me and never got it back. They didn't like it, I forgot who it was. Just remember they said it was full of a bunch of slow rap songs and boring. To be honest I felt the same way at first, but kept listening to it. It ended up being my favorite rap album of all time, till this day I don't think I have heard a better crafted rap album. Its perfect. The knock on it is the "that ? jigga" song. Which I liked, "dat ? " and "H to the izzo" were early favorites and I like Eminem as a rapper so I wasn't surprised he got jay on "renegade" it was eminem's song anyways, plus em was in his prime.

I was 10 and in 6th grade. ? was crazy obviously being it was 9/11 and the ? happened just 2 hours from where i lived in CT.

21

When I bought it, I was like, wait till Nas hears this, lol

I was 13 in 7th grade. One of my friends copped it before school and like 10 of us showed up with blank CD's and we burned copies at school. We listened to it the whole morning. TV's turned on in the classroom and for the first hour we weren't really paying attention. Almost every parent came to pick their kids up. Even my mom came and she worked nights and never came to the school during the day. She picked up my little brother and my older sister first and then got me.

My friend had the OG copy in one of our teachers radios. It played throughout the whole morning. The Blueprint was the soundtrack for September 11 2001. I played it in my shockwave CD player in the car on the way home to some of the worst traffic I had ever witnessed. Was looking out the car window and saw random strangers in tears. This was before 13 year old me truly grasp what was going on. I knew planes crashed into some buildings in New York but I didn't know the significance at the time. I do remember watching United Flight 93 turnaround in mid air right over us. In Cleveland we have two main airports. One is right on the edge of Lake Erie. We are always used to seeing planes flying over us. It was clear looking at this one that it was different. The Plane did not take off from Cleveland but it turned like a plane that knew it was going the wrong way. Started to feel the magnitude of what was happening when we got to the house and it was on every channel. Every channel...

To me The Blueprint is Jay best album and it isn't close. Does he have other classics? Yes he does but the build up and the beef with Nas was already garnering interest. Kanye and just Blaze.....sheesh. Em who at the time was the hottest rapper out even if you didn't like him. It's really a flawless album minus Jigga That ? but the album is so good you accept that the song isn't great on that album but the album as a whole was so tough.

To me when I listen to The Blueprint I'm taken back to a time when the world literally changed. Nothing was the same after that album dropped and that's never gonna change. I still remember the smell of the classroom and color in the sky that day. I still remember being a 13 year old kid that day and thinking that the events that transpired were going to force me to learn about the real world and how things rally work and what things really are. The events that day opened up a lot for 13 year old me and through all the chaos, the tragedy, and all the emotions when I think of September 11 2001 all I hear is The Blueprint.....

19, Sophomore in college. Really wasn't a fan of Jay but I heard the album a bunch cuz ? kept it in rotation on campus. Can't front Jay dropped a masterpiece wit that album.