Here goes another clip from Hov’s across seas promo run. In which Jay speaks with TraceTV on his Blueprint Triology and idea behind each one. Spotted at NR (via YKingz).

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Now that Jay-Z has left Def Jam, Hov’s former label is looking to cash in on Jay one last time.

Def Jam will release The Blueprint Collector’s Edition consisting of Jigga’s first two classic albums, The Blueprint and The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse.

Jay-Z’s collector’s set will be packaged in a collectible slipcase with a poster. There will be space to insert a third CD.

The Blueprint Collector’s Edition releases September 8, three days before The Blueprint 3 arrives on September 11 through Atlantic Records.

Thoughts? Opinions? Bueller?

Jay-Z goes through “Public Service Announcement,” “U Don’t Know” and “99 Problems” in the capital of my home country. I wonder if any of my relatives that I don’t talk to out there attended this show. Spotted at Smarten Up Nas (via eskay’s).

So DJ Miskeen got his hands on a couple of Kanye rarities, and plans on dropping a track every week or so. Here he drops a few bars over that “Fiesta”-sounding song an old Blueprint instrumental.

DOWNLOAD: Kanye West – Jigga My Ni**a Freestyle

After watching that travesty of a rap diss below, I ran across Andrew (good looks on the Mick Luter!) at Fake Shore Drive’s post about a little bit of controversy that bubbled between Chi-Town native Payroll and one Kanye West. I’ll let Andrew tell it…

The beef stemmed from the track below, Payroll’s “Never Change”. Back in the early parts of this decade, when Kanye was just a young up-and-coming producer, he produced a track for a rising Chicago “gangster” rapper (sorry, you know how I hate labels), by the name of Payroll, and that track became known as “Never Change”. A short while later an almost identical version of “Never Change” showed up on one of this decades biggest hip hop albums, Jay-Z’s the Blueprint. To add insult to injury, Kanye re-spit Payroll’s hook “I’m still fuckin’ with crime, cause Crime pays, Out hustlin’, same clothes for days”, bar for bar on Jigga’s version. Needless to say, Payroll was a little less than pleased when he heard his exact song, that he’d paid for, on a Jay-Z album.

Listen to the tracks and decide for yourself.

DOWNLOAD: Payroll – Never Change (Prod. by Kanye West)

DOWNLOAD: Jay-Z – Never Change (Prod. by Kanye West)