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December 30th 2008 03:14
Release date: November 24, 2008
Genre: Pop, R&B, synthpop, eletronica, hip hop
Length: 52:01
Label: Roc-A-Fella, Island Def Jam
The great producer/rapper Kanye West has dropped another album titled 808's & Heartbreak, but this time, he explores a totally different point of view. After his mother's death, Mr. West only thought of the sadness of life which takes the album in a different road for him. Known mostly for his crazy beats and lyricism, Kanye West only sings in this album while using the auto-tune.
The album starts with the song Say You Will. The kicks are toms and there's a constant computer beep which sounds like the classic videogame Pong.
Welcome To The Heartbreak featuring Kid Cudi follows. The beat starts with a violin, then the drums and snare kick in. The verses are rather weak on this one as each verse only has four bars and Kanye stops between each bar. It makes me wonder what is happening to hip hop, real rap?
Heartless is the second single of the album. It starts with Kanye singing with the bass kicks. Then, he really starts to spit with a nice beat in the background. The only thing that messes up this song is the auto-tune because he spits like he usually does.
Click For Heartless Music Video
Amazing features Young Jeezy. The beat starts with some claps, then the chorus opens. I hate the fact that they put the auto-tune on Jeezy's background “ooh” and “yeah.” At least they didn't put it on his verse, but his voice didn't match the beat.
Love Lockdown is the first single. The beat starts with some bass kicks.The song is a slow one except for the chorus where the beat intensifies. I found this track really boring. There's nothing crazy about it.
Street Lights is another boring song. There's nothing to sat about it really.
Love Lockdown Music Video
Paranoid features Mr. Hudson. Like a techno song, the beat starts slow then gets bigger and bigger. It takes awhile for it to go big, but when it does, it sounds like the kind of song you would do your aerobics exercises on.
On Robocop, the beat has mutltiple drums and a snare with a bomb exploding at the same time. It's an average song, the only quality about it are the robot effects on the chorus. Other than that, Robocop is like any other song.
Bad News has an extremely loud bass but then the snare messes it up. Kanye also put too much auto-tune on that one. I just didn't like it.
See You In My Nightmares features Lil' Wayne and is a mix of hip hop and electro. Weezy starts with the auto-tune, and it wasn't pretty. The beat isn't that crazy. Simply put, this song is like any other on the album.
Last but not least is Coldest Winter. The song is pretty simple, a slow track, but it wasn't that much different from the rest either.
I give this album a 5/10. I'm sorry, but it just doesn't cut it for me. As a hip hop fan, I thought Kanye was one of the real MCs' in the rap industry still doing real hip hop, but this album is total trash. First, he's not even rapping, he's singing. Second, why the auto-tune? Wayne started it, now everybody want a piece of it, but the only person that can use it well is T-Pain. So please other rappers, just stop. Third, almost every song on this album sounded the same. This record is a sad failure in Kanye West's career (not his money-making career, but his hip hop career). Remember, talent isn't based on how much you sell.
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