The Blueprint: Vinyl LP Craig David Taylor Hawkins

Taylor Hawkins

“Mountain Battle Song”

“Everything has been ‘homemade’ because it’s a way of working and a philosophy I like

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The Blueprint: Vinyl LP Craig David Taylor HawkinsThe Blueprint may be Jay Z's most captivating record since Reasonable Doubt, but its predictably detached mood reflects the master hustler's superior ability to trick out lackluster subject matter with lyrical complexity and brief flashes of manufactured introspection. The Blueprint, a solid mix of preprogrammed radio hits ("Izzo," "Girls, Girls, Girls") and better than average mid tempo compositions ("Never Change," "Song Cry"), confirms the Brooklyn