Jay-Z Covers Billboard Magazine

Now all of Jay-Z’s ventures are coming into alignment. He will release “The
Blueprint 3″ September 11, eight years to the day from the debut of the original
“Blueprint.” “This being the end of the trilogy, I wanted to bring it full
circle,” he says. “The first ‘Blueprint’ was based on soul samples and more of a
place where I came from and the records I listened to growing up with my mom and
pop. This ‘Blueprint,’ I liken it to a new classic, simply because we — Usher,
Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, myself — are becoming the people that we looked up
to musically growing up, like Marvin Gaye and Frank Sinatra.” Hit Hip Hop