“I’m gonna take my time with it.” Jay-Z told MTV when asked about the highly anticipated Blueprint 3 album.

“I don’t have any quotas, and that’s a good thing. It may be too freeing. It’s a good thing and a bad thing. You know, I think I need some restrictions. ‘Cause if I had restrictions, I would have done it in three weeks. I would have made what I believe to be a great piece of art.”

Producer Kanye West, who’s rumored to be the only producer on Blueprint 3 said the album is going to be phenomenal. “We went in, and we [did] the whole album,” Kanye explained. “He wanted to do a few more joints, so he kinda pushed it back. Now we’re gonna go in and just work on some more records. So I got some more stuff to kill it with! I think [Jay pushed the album back because] ‘Swagger’ just did so incredible. We wanted to go up [and make sure] everything was on that level.”

“Jockin’ Jay-Z” and “Swagger Like Us” will be on the album as well as “”Brooklyn Go Hard,” which also appeared on the Notorious soundtrack.

“I actually recorded a lot of records already,” Jay said. “You know, all those records that leaked [online] were on The Blueprint 3.”

It is still unclear whether the album will be released on Def Jam or Live Nation.