![]() ![]() ![]() True, his seventh album - The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse - hadn't hit quite the same heights as its universally acclaimed predecessor, the first Blueprint, but it was still a chart-topper and had sold several million copies. Here was one of the giants of rap, a guy who'd lived the quintessential American rags-to-riches redemption story as he'd left street crime behind and had come to dominate pop culture in well under a decade. Let's think about that for a moment, because Jay's stated decision to retire from making music in 2003 was, for those who believed it, astonishing. ![]()
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