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When he delved into personal issues, as he does on songs like “You Must Love Me” quite well, he’s fleshing out the character and mythology of Jay-Z, the hustler. Jay’s work leading up to this moment existed in a cinematic, self contained universe. What changed is evident on The Blueprint’s most compelling song, “Renegade” his duet with then biggest rapper in the world Eminem, tellingly hand-plucked from the song’s original beneficiary, Royce Da 5’9. The Blueprint is a compact, solid album with virtually no flaws that takes no chances and makes no mistakes, a master thesis of his tutelage in the game, starting with an apprenticeship under mentor Jaz-O and culminating with this album, its release date a seminal moment for rap music and America. The conclusion of a style, 90s East Coast crack rap, that was quickly turning anachronistic as a darker brand of Southern crime noir gained steam. Jay-Z, with the help of two young upstart producers with a taste for soul beats, made a pre meditated classic. Of course something very different happened.

An established veteran with an entrenched fanbase spinning away his middle age making music for himself, staying in something akin to a comfort zone (even though in Nas’ particular case that comfort zone is a place of constant willful discomfort) and slowly fading into the irrelevance of being an old man in a young man’s game. It’s easy to imagine Jay-Z going forward from this moment, following a career arc of a rapper like, say, Nas. Like Volumes 3 and 2 before it in his In My Lifetime series it plays more as a collection of some good and some very good songs rather than a unified whole. (Even Jay-Z didn't see this coming.) And it’s an album that lacks a real backbone or character.

It's an album twining his destiny to that of Rocafella, everything considered in retrospect, setting his sites reasonably low. He’s using his burgeoning fame to build up those around him, to strengthen the team in the interest of his own prominence. It’s sold as a compilation, but more so, from the title itself on down, an acknowledgment of the aspiration to become something more. His first release, The Dynasty: Roc La Familia is uneven by design. Like a President late in his second term, the coming of the 21st century led Shawn Carter to thoughts of legacy. March's slightly delayed installment belongs to Jay-Z. In theory, each month I'll be dedicating a mixtape to the 12 Rappers and Groups I felt proved most instrumental in shaping the last decade in Hip Hop in no particular order. Rapper(s) of the Decade is a mixtape series curated by myself that will span 2010.

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