Jay-Z – The Blueprint² The Gift & The Curse

Sounds great to my ears, very dynamic pressing, everything’s on point here.

Sounds empty and slightly tinny. Definitely not a comparison to the CD version

Jay-Z conquered in the late 1990s at a breakneck pace the title of best rapper from the East Coast. In Netherlands he was only familiar with the funny single Hard Knock Life (1998), based on a sample from the musical Annie. The subsequent album The blueprint (2001) is considered to be a hiphopmeesterwerk, a remarkably coherent and secure plate without failures. The second part of the diptych The Blue print 2 is completely different. This time trots out a variety of guests on such as Beyoncé Knowles (destiny's Child), Sean Paul, Faith Evans, Truth Hurts, Rakim, Lenny Kravitz, also known as the cream of the crop of the black music. Because with a variety of producers being worked on is a colorful album with a torrent of ideas, which by the length of 110 minutes (two CDs) Although it is difficult to handle at one time, but nevertheless the necessary ire mans productivity.