After months of buildup, Jay-Z's The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse finally hits stores this week. The 110-minute double-disc album features a ton of collaborations, including Beyoncé Knowles, Outkast's Big Boi and Lenny Kravitz.
TLC's fourth album, 3D, recorded in part before Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes' death in April, features all three members on, among other tracks, the single "Girl Talk," while Fat Joe shows off his Loyalty, the follow-up to last year's breakthrough Jealous Ones Still Envy.
Pearl Jam's Riot Act, the group's first studio album in two years, hits shelves alongside the "Die Another Day" soundtrack, which features Madonna's electro-tinged title track.
For fans interested in seeing what Sean Paul's got besides "Gimme the Light," the full album Dutty Rock drops Tuesday, and just in time for the "Making the Band 2" gang to gaze into the crystal ball, it's O-Town's second LP, O2.
Finally, Missy Elliott's Under Construction finds the rapper putting her thing down, flipping it and reversing it. .tuo ti kcehC
Out Tuesday, November 12:
3 Doors Down - Away From the Sun (Universal) 5 Cent Deposit - We Have Your Daughter (Radical) All Night - All Night (Tee Pee) Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage (Century Media) Phil Collins - Testify (Atlantic) Carl Cox - Mixed Live, 2nd Session: Area2 Detroit (Moonshine) Crazy Town - Darkhorse (Columbia) Darlington - Louder than Morrissey (The Orchard) Devin the Dude - Chopped Up (Jam Tight) Missy Elliott - Under Construction (Elektra) Earl Goes to the Races - Earl Goes to the Races (Laughing Hyena) Elephant Man - Higher Level (Greensleeves) Enya - Only Time: The Collection (box set, Warner Bros.) Ethan - Entropy Boy (Distillery Music) Fat Joe - Loyalty (Atlantic) Flip Tops - All Worked Up (Rip Off) Fragile State - Facts and the Dreams (Bar De Lune) Vivian Green - A Love Story (Columbia) Grief - Turbulent Times (Southern Lord) Grip Grand - Welcome to Broakland (Bomb Hip Hop) Hammerfall - Crimson Thunder (Nuclear Blast) Hunches - Yes No Shut It (In the Red) Iced Earth - Tribute to the Gods (Century Media) Ikara Colt - Chat and Business (Epitaph) Jay-Z - The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) Elton John - Greatest Hits 1970-2002 (Universal) David Knopfler -Wishbones (Koch) Koma - Criminal (Locomotive) Law-N-Orda - Ground Zero (Outlawz) Liars - Fins to Make Us More Fish-Like (EP, Mute) Lolo - Bad Idea (Underground Inc.) Cheb Mami - Lazrag Saani (Ark 21) Barry Manilow - A Christmas Gift of Love (Columbia) Manitoba - Start Breaking My Heart (Domino) Gary Meek - Step 7 (A440) MF Doom - Special Herbs 1&2 (High Times) Neon Hearts - Popular Music (Overground) Opeth - Deliverance (Koch) Paradise Lost - Symbol of Life (Koch) Pearl Jam - Riot Act (Epic) Read: "Pearl Jam Get Their Act Together"
Houston Person - Sentimental Journey (High Note) Piranhas - Erotic Grit Movies (In the Red) Pretenders - Loose Screw (Artemis) Radar - Nothing Is Real (Bar de Lune) Ruins - Tzomborgha (Ipecac) Saliva - Back Into Your System (Island) Sean Paul - Dutty Rock (Atlantic) Silex - Alphabet (EFA-Caroline) Siouxie and the Banshees - Best Of (Interscope) Swollen Members - Monsters in the Closet (Battle Axe) Justin Trevino - The Scene of the Crying (Texas Music Group) Tummler - Early Man (Small Stone) Warlocks - Phoenix Album (Birdman) WC - Ghetto Heisman (Def Jam) Lizzie West - Lizzie West (EP, Warner Bros.) Wild Bunch - Original Underground Massive Attack (Strut) Various artists - Calypso: Vintage Songs From the Caribbean (Putumayo) Various artists - "Die Another Day" soundtrack (Warner Bros.) Various artists - Electro Nouveau (two discs, Moonshine) Various artists - Future Groove (Mute) Various artists - "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" soundtrack (Warner Sunset/Nonesuch/Atlantic) Various artists - Midnight Lounge (Varese) Audioslave - Audioslave (Epic) Toni Braxton - More Than a Woman (Arista) Foxy Brown - Ill Na Na 2: The Fever (Def Jam) Craig David - Slicker Than Your Average (Atlantic) George Harrison - Brainwashed (Dark Horse/Capitol) Ja Rule - The Last Temptation (Murder Inc./Def Jam) Matchbox Twenty - More Than You Think You Are (Atlantic) Mudvayne - The End of All Things to Come (Epic) Baby - The Birdman (Cash Money) DJ Envy - Block Party (Epic) Jennifer Lopez - This Is Me ... Then (Epic) Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected? (Island) Read: "Sum 41 Ask, Does This Look Infected?"
Various artists - "Chicago" soundtrack (Epic) Various artists - "Paid in Full" soundtrack (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) Charli Baltimore - The Diary (You Think You Know) Mariah Carey - Charmbracelet (MonarC/Island/Def Jam) Dashboard Confessional - Unplugged 2.0 (Vagrant) Nas - God's Son (Columbia) 
