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dalyricalbandit
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14 and had the album afew days earlier cause my older cousin worked in a music store.
that day i walked home from school with my friend he had the bootleg one on a that had the live version of "The Takeover" shit was wild everything just came to a stop
that day i walked home from school with my friend he had the bootleg one on a that had the live version of "The Takeover" shit was wild everything just came to a stop
natural born sinners
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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 nigga jigga" song. Which I liked, "dat nigga" 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.
natural born sinners
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Oh yea, I believe it was my first junior year. I had to do 11th grade twice. Skipped school alot. I was your typical smart dumb nigga. Get a A on a test then not show up for a week
MeekMonizzLLLLLLe14
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I was 10 and in 6th grade. Shit was crazy obviously being it was 9/11 and the shit happened just 2 hours from where i lived in CT.
natural born sinners
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Off topic. Who was in NYC during the one year anniversary of 9/11..that was weird
Siqnih Da Trapper
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Just turned 21 a month earlier
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 Nigga 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.....
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 Nigga 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.....
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Peezy_Jenkins
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13
miami cane
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Crazy shit..... I got 3 kids older than some of u...
I was 21
I was 21
thagreat45
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I was 16 just starting 11th grade the morning we all heard they dropped the twin towers
Thereal_ba
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10
