recruit Kid Cudi hops on 'Welcome To Heartbreak' and the breezy 'Paranoid.' The album isn't concerned with guest spots or the usual Kanye chipmunk breaks, but Jeezy turns in a quick verse on 'Amazing,' and 'Bad News' features a sample of Nina Simone's 'See Line Woman. 808s & Heartbreak is the fourth studio album by American hip hop artist Kanye West, released Novemon Roc-A-Fella Records.It was recorded after the death of his mother and breakup of a relationship and has a very different sound compared to his previous albums, one which would lead to one of the most influential albums of the 2000s. It's also crazy to hear Fool's Gold's young gun on the come-up as newly inked G.O.O.D. Personality aside, the thumping lead single 'Love Lockdown' and follow-up 'Heartless' are just solid joints by any standards. EDIT TRAVIS SCOTT KANYE WEST Kanye West - Praise God (OG/VEGAS VERSION PERFECT REPLICA) scout. What's so compelling about Kanye West that makes everyone clamor for anything new the man drops? Four albums deep and I'm still not quite sure - but I do know that if you told me about some other rando artist who whipped up an album in a month using mainly Auto-Tune and a TR-808, I probably wouldn't care this much. Here's our original Lab review from 2008: Now all we need is the Graduation reissue. With the original pressing going for anywhere from $50-200, you either love or hate this reissue. Otherwise, no matter its commendable fearlessness, the album is a listless, bleary trudge along West's permafrost.As far as we can tell, this official reissue has identical specs to the 2008 release: Kaws artwork, inserts, triple gatefold, double vinyl and bonus CD. Kanye West’s 808’s & Heartbreak Track List. ('Coldest Winter,' where West longs for his departed mother, samples the most desolate song from the first Tears for Fears album.) For anyone sifting through a broken relationship and self-letdown, this could all be therapeutic. I’m going to go out on a limb and tell all yall to pick up a damn copy over here. Several tracks have almost as much in common with irrefutably bleak post-punk albums, such as New Order's Movement and the Cure's Pornography, as contemporary rap and R&B. All the blocky drums, dragging strings, droning synths, and joyless pianos lead to a bleak set of productions - even the synthetic calliope in 'Heartless' is unnerved, and the relative pep of 'Paranoid' provides no respite, its bitter lyrics subverting a boisterous beat. girl.' Earlier in the album, the number she did on him is called 'the coldest story ever told,' yet he admits he still fantasizes about her. The majority of the lyrics, however, are directed at an ex who evidently did some damage in 'RoboCop' alone, she gets compared to the antagonist in Misery and is called a 'spoiled little L.A. When, in 'Welcome to Heartbreak,' he dispassionately recounts sitting alone on a flight, ahead of a laughing family, he makes first class sound like Siberia he'd swap lives with the father in an instant.

As a part of Universal Records’ Respect The Classic campaign, Kanye’s 808s & Heartbreak LP will be getting remastered and re-released some time next month possibly in time for Valentine’s Day. In various spots across 808s & Heartbreak, the constant flutter of West's processed voice, along with a seldom interrupted sluggish march of aching sounds, is enlivened by the disarming manner in which despair and dejection are conveyed. Yeezy season is approaching again well, kind of.

Kanye 808s and heartbreak tracklist