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The Blueprint 3 is the eleventh studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released September 8, 2009, on Roc Nation; through distribution from Atlantic Records. It is the third album in the Blueprint series, preceded by The Blueprint and The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse. Production for the album took place during 2008 to 2009 at several recording studios and was handled by Kanye West, No I.D., The Neptunes, Jeff Bhasker, Al Shux, Jerome "J-Roc" Harmon, The Inkredibles, Swizz Beatz, and Timbaland. The album also features guest appearances by Kanye West and Swizz Beatz themselves, his wife Beyoncé, as well as Rihanna, Drake, Kid Cudi, Young Jeezy, J. Cole, Alicia Keys, Luke Steele, and Pharrell Williams. The Blueprint 3 produced six singles: "D.O.A. ", "Run This Town", " "Empire State of Mind", "On to the Next One", "Young Forever" and "A Star Is Born". Each of which gained success on the Billboard Hot 100, excluding the latter. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics and was a commercial success. It debuted atop the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 476,000 copies in its first week. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blu...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
