Wild how dismissive I was about this album when it dropped. This is an absolute f***ing gem. I listen to it damn near every day now.

If The Blueprint dropped in 2022:

“Mid”

“Heart of The City and Song Cry is good but the rest is nothing special”

“Hov flow on here is boring, he not trying hard enough”

“This album is trash, I was expecting more s*** like I just wanna love you wtf is this soulful s***, sound like my grandma music”

6/10 on Pitchfork… “Jay-Z spits more of the same about being on the throne”

Fantano “Jay-Z really isn’t doing anything special here, feeling a light to strong 3 on this one”

so true bestie

It’s how you’ve been trained man it’s not all your fault.

Critics loved the blueprint. You’re doing the most to rationalize the fact that maybe some don’t love the album as much as you do lol

It’s good you gave it another chance unlike a lot of people who will miss out cause they too prideful to admit they were wrong. Why were you dismissive of it out of curiosity?

album just keeps getting better after every listen.

Drake really delivered on this project.

Critics in 2001 for sure different than 2022 tho

You’re missing the point of what I was saying

That was 2001 22 years ago

Critics are not the same

People are not the same

The internet has changed us

I truly believe it along with other classics from the past would not be as appreciated in this climate

They really aren’t. It’s all white music nerds.

Tory's album, This album and Dawn are heavy in rotation for me

Toronto stay undefeated

🗣 OVER NIGHT OVER NIGHT

Down Hill is the one today

ANOTHER ONE

I mean I see what you’re saying but the blueprint is not a good example of it.

Like if you said some outkast s*** them yeah that would make sense cause they even had a skit about how hood niggas weren’t really fw them. But then again even they had critics fw them too.

Idk man it just reeks of cope to me. I pop itt from time to time and I seen you do a whole field report on which clubs are playing the album

Not really

They ain’t even review our music like that back then

We got our reviews from The Source and XXL which was primarily black

A lot of what you see on Wikipedia was done in a retrospective review

You can look on the wiki page and see most of the reviews came from 2001

Ok bro well either way critics didn’t become spicy until very recently, that’s my point

Massive gonna have these young kids buggin off the Molly

They never became spicy. They just don’t like what you think they should like. It’s been toms of classic albums that critics have trashed.

You really tryna act like the blueprint would be trashed by critics of today. You need to cut the nonsense

Aight bro you disagree, it’s ok

Post got 3 likes so I’m 3 for 4 shooting a blistering 75% from the field

Counting likes and pretentious posting? You gotta right w yourself my brother

I am right with myself g you right with yourself? I’m enjoying an album and posting my thoughts about it. I have yet to attack or disrespect you

Honestly bro who cares about the critics? Hip hop purists were never gonna like this drake knows that, this is for the fans that aren’t beholden to drakes rap and rnb vibes just enjoy it if YOU like it and be appreciative drake didn’t give us another typical drake album

This is the paradigm shift we were waiting for

Drake is already the highest selling artist ever lmao who gives af this does 200k he’s proven enough in that department