However, I don’t think Kanye can release a bad single, so I know it’s hard to judge by just these tracks, but trust me, if you like them, you’ll like the rest.įrom the near 7 minute opening track, “Say You Will,” West vents himself in lyrics of lost love, heart ache, and just wrong doing, but don’t expect the king of ego to start swooping his hair and crying. The singles, “Love Lockdown,” and, “Heartless,” both showcase exactly what I about the new sound and showcase the whole disc quite well. Electronic pop with the occasional flow here or there. This isn’t exactly club or top 40 hip hop,in fact, it barely touches on the genre of hip hop. The result of all this woe is the polarizing, but elegant 808’s and Heartbreaks that hits stores this week and will, in no time, once again change how we look at the pop and hip hop world.įorget everything you think you know about Kanye West as this album is about as relatable to his prior work as carrots to beer nuts. These matters of life, for lack of a better term, left West heartbroken and to deal, he did what came naturally, make music. Form the trilogy of albums he completed with Graduation to now, Kanye has lost his main influence, his mother, and ended a long engagement. The man who has flipped hip hop on it’s head has taken quite a few blows in the last year and it’s made a very apparent impact on his music. The whole idea that the bigger something is, the harder it falls has never been more true than with Kanye West.
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