Kanye West Discusses ‘The Blueprint 3’

New York, NY – The release of Jay-Z’s new studio album will be a serious magnitude of epic proportions amongst the vast community that is Hip-Hop. The icon returns with his long-awaited third installment to his Blueprint series giving his fans a re-up of real uncut Hip-Hop, the originality that I grew up on. Hov has been in production with this new LP since the summer of last year, ever since we received word that Hov was to include ‘Swagger Like Us’ on his official track listing. Since then, many tracks have leaked to the net giving more hints that the album was to be a phenomenal event. With the amount of time that has already passed, Kanye West continues to give his own hints to the fans and the media as he headlines practically half of the production on the soon to be released album.

The Louis Vuitton Don recently spoke to MTV News concerning the highly anticipated album of Jay-Z. He gave fans an idea of what was put into the production, creativity, and the thought process.

These were his comments:

“Jay is in control of everything in his domain. He’s just been working on it, and it’s gonna be amazing when he drops it. I think it’s good he’s taking his time to give people the best product possible and not being rushed by this fast-food, media-outlet, Internet, everything-is-getting-leaked, people-stealing your-songs-before-you-can-mix-them-and-put-them-online world we’re living in right now.”

West continued to mention that the album has been revised to omit certain tracks that he felt did not need inclusion:

“We actually removed all the songs with Auto-Tune off of his album to make the point that this is an anti-Auto-Tune album, even though I released an album that has all Auto-Tune! It doesn’t matter to me, it’s music; it’s just sonics. I like Auto-Tune so I do it, but you want the other thing — like you’ll wear a suit to a wedding and gym shoes to a basketball game. I think it’s a perfect moment for Jay to provide some gym shoes to a basketball game right now.”

‘The Blueprint 3’ will officially be released under Jay’s own imprint Roc Nation sometime within the next couple of months, the date has not been set as of yet.

The Time Begins for T.I.

Forrest City, AR – The day of reckoning was not anticipation for T.I. as the time came and went for him to officially turn himself in. That day occurred on Tuesday afternoon at exactly 12:00pm. He officially began his 366 day sentence as soon as he walked into the guarded facility. Police had to rope off and push back dedicated T.I. fans as they awaited his arrival just for a glimpse and to send their love and prayers for his safe release.

According to reports, T.I. was to turn himself in exactly at noon, but instead arrived approximately 30 minutes late to the time specified. He was booked, checked into the low security block of the facility right into general population. Apparently, he is to be released into the prison stables without special treatment or extra security regardless of his current status.

24hourhiphop.com extends our deepest wishes to T.I. while he serves his time behind bars, keep ya head up.