The warbled and robotic voice once meant to denote distance and detachment has now been warmed over. Somehow, the Chicago artist’s most experimental and idiosyncratic work became his most seminal.
Kanye West’s fourth studio album raised an entire generation: wide-eyed child actors, hardened Atlanta drug dealers, elusive bedroom producers. Its influence never really ceased reverberating, and its imprint still appears with some frequency across hip-hop (and pop music writ large). Ten years after its release, 808s & Heartbreak is an absolute. “It flowed the most effortlessly because we basically did it in three weeks.” “It was probably the easiest Kanye West record that ever got made,” he said. 808s & Heartbreak was their first collaboration, and likely the most memorable. This album shows the raw, vulnerable side of Kanye.The producer and songwriter Jeff Bhasker has worked on four albums with Kanye West.
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. 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.
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