2001      Jay-Z      “Breathe Easy (Lyrical Exercise)”     The fall of 2001 was a traumatic season in New York City for obvious reasons.    Notable New Yorker and arguably the greatest rapper of all-time Jay-Z, dropped  The Blueprint &nbsp;on the very same day the World Trade Center’s towers did.    That album’s now-classic-material provided at least some small musical refuge for the city to take in, while still choking back dust from the debris at Ground Zero.    The album released on 9/11/01’s track listing only contained, in retrospect somewhat ominously, thirteen tracks.    Yet buried underneath the aural rumble created by those thirteen, after almost thirty seconds of silence following the album’s title-track coda “Blueprint (Momma Loves Me)”, back comes Jigga with an ode to microphone calisthenics to remind the competition that it’s a marathon not a sprint.