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After the Jump, check out Jay’s interview with CLASH Magazine.
Independent magazine Clash recently had an interview with cover boy to discuss everything from the Blueprint 3 to the President.
So ‘The Blueprint 3′; how long have you been recording it for?
Forever. My whole life. I must have honestly started the process three or four times. But it actually started out in the UK when I was playing Manchester. Kanye came along to my show and brought me a CD full of beats and they were all sequenced. So he’s like, “This is the album!”, and I was, “Woah – slow down”. Kanye thought it was done and ready. But that was pretty much the foundation for what would become ‘The Blueprint 3′.
Did you always know it was going to be ‘The Blueprint 3′?
Yeah. I knew from day one.
And did you always intend to complete the trilogy?
I had my last trilogy with the ‘….Lifetime’ volumes one, two and three and I’d skipped over ‘The Blueprint’ for a bunch of albums and I thought now was the time. It would be very appropriate to go back to it, you know? The first ‘Blueprint’ was a return to my roots. It was like the soul samples that I grew up listening to. This album sets the blueprint for the next generation. We are becoming those icons we looked up to – for this new generation, kids look up to us that way. Me, Kanye, Justin. I just wanted to return to making music like that. I’m calling it a new classic. The songs are really lush and I tackled it without any formulas in mind. It just needed to feel like classic music with new subjects of course… I had all these big records and all this success – with ‘The Blueprint’ I had to take a step back to take a step further.
But is this it? Or could we see a ‘Blueprint’ quadrilogy?
A quad what? (laughs) There is no more – this is the end of the series. Enjoy it!
View the rest of the interview and digital issue over at CLASH.
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