Rapper Jay-Z is going to extreme measures to protect his highly-anticipated "Blueprint 3" album. With albums being leaked sometimes months before they’re released, Jay Z’s slight paranoia should come as no surprise.

According to London’s The Daily Star, Jay-Z plans on personally dropping off "Blueprint 3" to the head of Atlantic Records in London.

“Jay is looking forward to showing off the fruits of his studio time and decided the best thing to do was take the album himself to London,” a source told The Daily Star. “Every time a big artist has new music ready these days someone somewhere is always keen to pinch it and whack it on the Internet.”

"Kingdom Come," one of Jay-Z’s more recent albums, was leaked on MySpace through unauthorized content added by MySpace users. The leak even led to a lawsuit against MySpace by Universal Music Group. The lawsuit was MySpace’s first-ever copyright-infringement lawsuit.

“Jay is very protective and smart and doesn’t want fans to hear tracks which aren’t quite right,” the source continued. “He wants to give the record to the label in the UK and see which songs go down best to give him ideas about single releases.”

"Blueprint 3" will be released on Friday, September 11 and most recently Jay-Z has been touring with R&B singer Ciara.