Friday, March 22, 2019

Jay-Z album The Blueprint officially 'culturally important'




Jay-Z fans already class him as culturally significant.


His self-appointed nickname Hova (short for J-Hova, a play on the Hebrew for God, Jehovah) shows he holds himself in high esteem.

But it's official now.

His sixth album, 2001's The Blueprint, has been added to a list of "culturally important" recordings in America. Or to give it is its formal title, the National Recording Registry.

Additions to the archive have to be at least 10 years old and can include anything from music to recordings of significant moments in history.

The Blueprint joins audio relics like Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech, a recording of the first transatlantic phonecall from 1927 and an 1888 version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

It's the first rap album from the 21st Century to be added.

Tupac and Public Enemy already have recordings on the list.



The Blueprint is widely regarded as one of Jay-Z's best albums.

In 2003, it was ranked 464th on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 greatest albums of all time - it then moved up to 252 in a revised list released in 2012.

The Blueprint happened to be released on 11 September 2001 - the day of the 9/11 attacks in New York.

It sold over 427,000 copies in its first week and remained at number one for three weeks.

Jay-Z gave a dollar from every ticket sold on the The Blueprint tour to relief efforts.


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