![]() ![]() Young Jeezy) 3:58 5 Love Lockdown 4:30 6 Paranoid (feat. Kid Cudi) 4:22 3 Heartless 3:31 4 Amazing (feat. This album shows the raw, vulnerable side of Kanye. 808s & Heartbreak (Exclusive Edition) by Kanye West on Apple Music 808s & Heartbreak (Exclusive Edition) Kanye West HIP-HOP/RAP 2008 Preview 1 Say You Will 6:17 2 Welcome To Heartbreak (feat. West said of the record, "this album was therapeutic – it's lonely at the top." His heavy use of Auto-Tuned vocals would go on to inspire artists like Drake to pick this up and run with it. The album deals with themes of loss, heartache and death. I found the track ‘Amazing’ amusing “I'm amazing (I'm amazing), yeah I'm all that (All that),” classic Kanye again. The track I was most familiar with on this album was ‘Love Lockdown,’ the first single released. As a general rule, I hate Auto-Tune but for some reason it just works on this record. Instead, West sang through an Auto-Tune processor over sparse beats. 808s & Heartbreak was, interestingly, recorded in a three weeks period in September and October of 2008, contrasting with the 2 years it took Graduation to materialize (and unintentionally starting Ye’s tendency of erratic album producing schedules that still continues up to this day), in California and Hawaii with a surprisingly limited palette. ![]() Following the death of his mother and the breakup with his fiancée, Alexis Phifer, West released this, an album distinctly lacking in raps. This album, marked by two major events in West’s life, saw his music take a complete change in direction. ![]() This record complicated it even further I actually quite enjoyed it. I’ve mentioned previously the “complicated relationship” that I have with Kanye. Today, Kanye Wests misunderstood but unquestionably influential album 808s & Heartbreak turns seven. ![]()
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