Producer No I.D. Speaks On Production of "Blueprint 3"

Time is counting down as Jay-Z prepares to release The Blueprint III on September 11th. Fueled by the singles “D.O.A” and “Run This Town,” HipHopWired recently spoke with producer No I.D. about his involvement with the project. No I.D. stated,

“I'm on about 6 tracks and the original concept for the album came when me and Kanye were in New Orleans last summer. He was like why don't you come and work on this Jay album with me and we can do a couple of tracks. And we never really did stuff like that before so I was like O.K. And our synergy was so good off the top that I told him, “Hey man, I don't have an ego. Let's do like Dre and Mel-Man would do and let's do the whole album” which eventually lead to us working on 808s & Heartbreak together. First it was just gone be me and him doing it and then over time with Kanye touring and all that, other people got involved with the album. So we got 7 or 8 on there and I'm on like 6 of them and one was me all by myself which was “D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune.)”

No I.D. has also been appointed president of Kanye's label Good Music and also stated that he wants to bring DJ and producer Don cannon in under the umbrella to help bring Good Music's street presence to another level. Outside of the Good Music umbrella, No I.D. has also been working on upcoming projects from underground lyrical titans GLC, Mikkey and J. Cole who hopefully won't remain below the radar for too long. No ID also spoke deeper on the production end of The Blueprint III, adding,

“From a beat perspective it's closer back to The Black album level from Jay- Z but a little more Blueprintish in a sense of it having a little more Jay-Z soul which you come to expect. But then Timb had some stuff on there, Swizz was on there. It's a really solid Jay-Z album to me and I think that musically its gonna deliver, point blank period.”

Check out the trailer for the new Jay-Z video “Run This Town” featuring Kanye West and Rihanna as well the “D.O.A.” video.