- hip hop, hip-hop, rap, hardcore rap
- 109 min
- 25 tracks
- Roc‐A‐Fella Records
The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse is the seventh studio album by American rapper Jay-Z. It was released on November 12, 2002, by Roc-A-Fella Records and Island Def Jam Music Group.
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Character
Spare, contemporary, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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Metacritic 64/100
- AllMusic3/5 ★
- Blender4/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyC
- NME4/5 ★
- Pitchfork7.5/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
- Spin9/10
- Uncut2/5 ★
- RapReviews8.5/10
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Tracks
- 1A Dream4:12
- 2Hovi Baby4:21
- 3The Watcher 25:57
- 4'03 Bonnie & Clyde3:26
- 5Excuse Me Miss4:41
- 6What They Gonna Do4:54
- 7All Around the World3:53
- 8Poppin' Tags6:00
- 9Fuck All Nite4:19
- 10The Bounce4:19
- 11I Did It My Way3:43
- 1Diamond Is Forever3:56
- 2Guns & Roses4:25
- 3U Don't Know (remix)4:27
- 4Meet the Parents4:59
- 5Some How Some Way5:38
- 6Some People Hate4:32
- 7Blueprint²4:49
- 8Nigga Please4:38
- 92 Many Hoes3:34
- 10As One3:49
- 11A Ballad for the Fallen Soldier4:42
- 12Show You How2:59
- 13Bitches & Sisters2:39
- 14What They Gonna Do, Part II3:47
25 tracks, 109 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Jay‐Z
- Label
- Roc‐A‐Fella Records
- Released
- 2002
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- CA
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