This album also sort of started the recent wave of sad hiphop we've been getting (Kid Cudi is a good example). as well as super-depressing (Street Lights, Bad News, Coldest Winter, Say You Will). Different lyrics, different music, different artwork, different mood.īut it's still really catchy and fun (Paranoid, RoboCop). It's NOT the standard recycled bullshit over and over again. Hiphop listeners loooove to hate on this album because they really don't know what to do with it, where to file it. It forced him to write really memorable lyrics & melodies. Limiting himself gear-wise really worked. In a way it reminds me of how Herbie Hancock used vocoder in "Trust Me", very mellow and sad in a way. 808s & Heartbreak is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Kanye West, released on November 24, 2008, by Roc-A-Fella Records.
Written over the course of two months in mid-2008, West assembled 11 cuts of heartache. 808s & Heartbreak is the pivotal moment that Kanye went from icon to legend. Every song is great, and they all fit perfectly together.Īnd sonically, it's unlike the rest of his albums (which are fine, but really are a lot more regular hiphop with more epic production).Īutotune is used almost as another instrument and blends with the music perfectly. by Tim Sentz Rating:10 Release Date: Label: Def Jam on 20 December 2018 Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak. It's his most honest performance and his most honest writing. One of the best albums (of any genre) of the 2000s. "If spring can take the snow away / Can it melt away all of our mistakes?" he asks mournfully, answered only by an echo of the exact same question.Haters gonna hate, but this IS Kanye's finest moment. "Coldest Winter" specifically is dedicated to his late mother. Kanye's pain over these losses is palpable throughout the album. If I'd never made it in the music business, it never would have happened." "I feel like I moved to California, then my mom moved to California," West told the Guardian, "and she did stuff she wouldn't have done if we'd stayed in Chicago. West blamed himself in part for his mother's untimely end. He also split from his fiancee, Alexis Phifer, after an 18-month engagement. In the years before the album's release, Kanye lost his mother, Donda West, whom he had immortalized in his music several times before, to complications from a cosmetic surgery. "The type of ideas that it was coming up with, the melodies that were in me - what was in me I couldn't stop." Our sales office is located in beautiful town of Redondo Beach, California, just a few miles South of Los Angeles International Airport. "It was just what was in my heart," the rapper told MTV Europe at the time. We focus on making purchasing online a pleasant experience. This calculated, morose meditation was the only album that Kanye could make at this point in his life.
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