Its subject matter, heartbreak, has kept it from aging-an album that is relevant each time a former dream girl arrives in your nightmares, when dealing with a paranoid lover, or eclipsed in a game of cat and mouse by a heartless heroine. Over the years, Kanye’s fourth album has continued to hold a special place in my music library. He couldn’t sing-the Achilles' heel of 808s-a flawed man with an imperfect technique is fitting of such a vulnerable album, but it adds a flavor that even a master singer isn’t able to reproduce. I couldn’t truly be welcomed into heartbreak before it felt foreign, weird, but the once strange place had suddenly felt like home. The very songs that I once wished to be filled with buoyant boasts, slick brags and inspirational lyricism sounded perfect as Auto-Tune drenched life anecdotes from a man unafraid to wear the shattered heart on his microphone. A year can change a lot, especially when a woman enters and exits your life like some beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy. This was the coldest winter of my adolescence, an age of love and heartache, conflict and pain, guilt and longing-emotional scars that can be relieved by the ointment of music. It was a little over a year after the release of 808s & Heartbreak, the winter of my graduation year, when I tried the album once again. This was a completely new Kanye, a singing Kanye, a tragic Kanye-the darkness of his 808s, the bleakness of his heartbreak didn’t resonate with my 17-year-old desire for the old Kanye. I played “Good Life” and he’s like ‘who’s that singing right there I like that voice?’ he gassed me up.My heart sunk into the sole of my shoe when he redirected and renamed Good Ass Job, but I wasn’t prepared for him to completely revamp his artistry. Was the one to actually inspire Kanye to do a singing album in the first place admitting on the Hot 97 Juan Epstein Podcast years later, “I think Michael Jackson was the one who put the battery in my back to do 808s. Those experiences, I’d never ask to take them away,' West said in 2008. I suffered the worst pains to help me to grow. I used to pray to get delivered from pain.
“Heartless” The atypical hit record defied all hip-hop charting logic at the time, as “Heartless” went on to become the anthemic track off 808s & Heartbreak and ended up peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, his highest entry to that point since 2007’s chart topping “Stronger.” The G.O.O.D Music artist used the low-point in his life to change the landscape of rap, “I knew I had great pain in my future. Kanye raps about the gaping hole in his spirit that he tried to fill with lavish materialistic gifts, “My friend showed me pictures of his kids/ And all I could show him was pictures of my cribs/ He said his daughter got a brand new report card/And all I got was a brand new sports car, oh.” 1. Proved to be an integral addition to 808s & Heartbreak, adding a different flair when it came to the electronic sound that Kanye was looking for.also makes an appearance crooning on the hook with Mo-Ho. “Paranoid” A record that was ahead of its time, and the influence can still be heard in hip-hop today - just go listen to ’s “90210.” The black and white visual features Rihanna as a representation of his former romances. And actually created their own freestyles over the “Say You Will” beat on their early mixtapes in 2009. In 2015, West released an updated studio version of the track featuring violinist, Caroline Shaw. During a concert, West claimed this record is about that “ex-girlfriend you call on Friday nights just to have sex.” The track was created in just 15 minutes, featuring vocals throughout the first three minutes with the second half strictly being an instrumental letting the listener attempt to decode the album opener’s eclectic sound.
Yeezy performed “Say You Will” during his Coachella set in 2011. “Say You Will” The opening track shows listeners that Kanye is embarking on new territory creatively, implementing icy synths and an electronic buzzsaw cutting through fans ears with a sonic that’s foreign to most hip-hop fans.
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