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| Artist: Kanye West
Label: Roc-A-Fella Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  256 reviews
Sales Rank: 35
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5 x 2 x 0.4
MPN: 001219802
UPC: 602517872790
EAN: 0602517872790
ASIN: B001FBIPFA
Release Date: November 24, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Say You Will | | • | Welcome To Heartbreak featuring Kid Cudi | | • | Heartless | | • | Amazing featuring Young Jeezy | | • | Love Lockdown | | • | Paranoid featuring Mr. Hudson | | • | RoboCop | | • | Street Lights | | • | Bad News | | • | See You In My Nightmares featuring Lil Wayne | | • | Coldest Winter | | • | Pinocchio Story |
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Album Description
The ten-time Grammy Award winning musical phenomenon, rapper, producer, and now singer embarks on a new musical journey taking his audience to new heights. Kanye West returns with his fourth album 808s & HEARTBREAK. His highly anticipated new album set for release on November 25th, featuring the heart pounding first single LOVE LOCKDOWN which premiered live for the first time on the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. LOVE LOCKDOWN quickly exploded at radio with the video premiering nationwide on the Ellen Degeneres show. "Heartless," the second single, is next up to hit the airwaves further amplifying the story behind the musical direction for 808s & HEARTBREAK.
Album Description
The ten time Grammy Award winning musical phenomenon, Rapper, producer and singer embarks on a new musical journey taking his audience to new heights. Kanye West returns with his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak. His highly anticipated 2008 album features the heart pounding first single, 'Love Lockdown' which premiered live for the first time on the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 251 more reviews...
 Non Typical Kayne January 6, 2009
M. Caines (New York)
This Album Is So Much Mature The His College Series. People Seem To Forget That His Mother Pasted During The Making Of This Album So He Is Giving Raw Emotion. I Appreciate This Album.
Kanye breaks the mold January 5, 2009
G. Gilbert (Houston, TX)
Mr. West what can I say. I have had this album from the first day that it was released. I like to take my time to digest information before I review it. With that being said I have listen to this album a number of times and with each listen I love it more. It is creative, new, and well conceived. I'll admit it did take time to grow on me but "It's Amazing!" Thanks, Mr. West keep pushing the musical envelop can't wait to hear and see what you'll come up with next.
A "Closer" for the hip hop generation January 3, 2009
DIOONER
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First and foremost, I'd like to express my exasperation at hearing or reading people moaning at some - currently successful - black artists (Kanye West being one of them), accusing them of having betrayed the so-called "original true spirit of hip hop". These, behaving like self-proclaimed guardians of some private temple, seem to forget that hip hop, like every other form of art, is a mean not an end.
I also recall the great Mos Def was once asked, a few years ago, what he thought of his peers parading in videos with lavish ladies and expensive cars instead of providing supposed conscious statements in their music. His answer has baffled me for years (and still does): he said that it was precisely this (i.e. the fact of seeing black people behaving that way in front of huge audiences of, say, MTV proportions) that was revolutionary, more than any kind of political contest. And so, whether you fancy it or not. I can't agree more, as it seems, more generally, that a black artist is, still nowadays, supposed to deliver what's expected of him: making "black music".
Sorry for that somewhat long introduction, but I thought those two distinct points could be helpful to fully understand what Kanye West's fourth album proper is all about, and what it aims to be. On the previous one, 2007's "Graduation", he already considerably extended his sonic palette (sampling Daft Punk or legendary german krautrockers, Can), yet after that, last summer he produced, in the form of his duet with the promising Estelle, the wonderful "American Boy", which can only be described as the single best musical mainstream moment of the year, all straightforward dancefloor power and heavy beat science upfront.
"8O8s & Heartbreak" is an altogether very different beast to both those releases; having recently both lost his mother and ended up a longtime relationship with his fiancee, Kanye West isn't exactly in a partying mood here, to say the least. Yet, and it's what makes this record so satisfying, he still manages to entertain while expressing his utter sadness and pouring his deepest doubts over every song featured. From the first few bars of "Say You Will", it's understood Kanye's probably unleashed his landmark piece of music this time: over a bleak, possibly new wavish rhythm synth, he croons in a desperate yet suggestive and seductive manner about the loss of his love. The much-publicized use of the auto-tune process, supposedly a limitation, in fact allows him more freedom than ever: some reviewer pointed out he's not Nas nor Guru (he actually barely raps on the whole LP, mind you), and heaven knows he ain't Marvin Gaye either, but if the spine-tingling lament that is "Heartless" or the broody hypnotic complaint the first single "Love Lockdown" manages to be fail to move you, then nothing ever will. On the only upbeat track, "Paranoid", Kanye West even delivers the most perfect slice of pop angst ever heard since, say, Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence" (yeah, that good). Perhaps only the quite blank "Robocop" is a relative failure, as every other song is a fascinating trip through this visionary artist's mind, even the somewhat rawer-sounding live freestyle "Pinocchio Story", that closes proceedings with an overwhelming tearjerking class.
Being very intimate, sounding entertaining at it and clearly conscious of what he does, somewhere between Kool & The Gang produced by New Order and the late and great Al Green stuck with The Neptunes in an elevator, Kanye West has achieved, minor weaknesses aside, a truly perfect pop album.
In a world that enjoys nothing as much as pigeonholing people of every kind (let alone artists), that alone is a triumph in itself.
TO ENJOY, CHERISH AND TREASURE...
 808s & Heartbreak January 3, 2009
Morton (Colorado)
808s & Heartbreak ***
It was a bold move, a courageous move, but it wasn't exactly the best move. Making a album that deliberately sounds like it was released in 1983 sounds really cool at the moment and specifically cool considering the retro movement as of late with music and fashion trends. Though, in about a year this album will sound extremely dated. But in the moment it is fun, and it just might be Kanye's best album to date.
Dealing 100% with his failed engagement and the loss of his mother. It is a heartbreaking album, but a fun one at the same time (especially with head phones). The things is though only 'Heartless' and the distorted treasure 'Love Lock-down' are the only real classics on the album, and really the only tracks that sound like viable singles.
Because of the lack of staying power and the lack of truly great tracks 808s & Heartbreaks is just an average run of the mill hip-hop album.
 Don't Judge It.....Listen To It...... January 3, 2009
GDubbSon (Tacoma,USA)
Kanye West's fourth studio release is something different. Many people are unsure of something when it's different, so they don't try it or acknowledge it. I'll admit when i first heard about this album I was quick to judge it (being that i'm totally against auto-tune). But after I heard his second single "Heartless" i was surprised. So I listened to couple more songs from the album, and was mildly blown away.
#1-Say You will
Kanye starts the album off with a beat that is way too catchy to avoid. It is simple,but will garner your attention like no other. It is around 6 minutes in length, with 3 minutes being all instrumental. All in all it's a good way to start an album off. 8/10
#2-Welcome to Heartbreak Ft. Kid Cudi
This is my favorite song off the album, nice beat, catchy hook, thoughtful lyrics. Everything you could want in a song. Kanye reflects on his lifestyle and Kid Cudi delivers a stellar chorus. 10/10
#3- Heartless
This is the song that hooked me. It's extremely catchy, and his lyrics are on point. Kanye doesn't sing too much, which is a plus...considering he's not that great at it, but never the less.... This song is a hit!9/10
#4- Amazing Ft. Young Jeezy
This song is a pleasant surprise, the beat is decent, the chorus is decent, and the lyrics are decent. This song is an average song, but some-how I alwats find myself reciting the chorus. 8/10
#5- Love Lockdown
This is the first song I heard from 808's & Heartbreak, I'll admit it I didn't like it. He just seemed out of rhythm, and he can't sing well enough to pull a song like this off. The beat however does save the song a little bit, it's also catchy. 7/10
#6- Paranoid
I don't like this song at all, it reminds me of an 80's work-out video. The beat is whack,lyrics are whack,concept is o.k. Kanye didn't think before he let this one slide in. 4/10
#7- Robo Cop
For some reason I like this song. Its catchy, although it gets annoying, I can't seem to skip it. Cool concept, every guy has these thoughts. Now I can tell my girlfriend to stop bein' a Robo Cop, Thanks Kanye. 7/10
#8- Street Lights
An album filler for sure, honestly this is a very forgettable song. I let the album play through when I first bought it, and I don't even remeber this song the slightest. 5/10
#9- Bad News
Decent song, nice feel to it, kosher lyrics. Good choice to put it after a song nobody is going to pay attention to. After "Street Lights" you'll need something to get you back into the mood. 7/10
#10- See You In My Nightmares Ft. Lil Wayne
This is my least favorite track on the album. Lil Wayne makes Kanye West sound like Stevie Wonder *Insert Great Singer Here*. The beat is mediocre, and the hook is terrible. This song should've been kept for the Carter III: The Re-birth. 3/10
#11- Coldest Winter
Great outro song about his mother (r.i.p). It's going to the first winter without his mother by his side,he uses this to vent. Good beat, good lyrics, good song. 8.5/10
#12- Pinocchio Story (Live)
Long as hell, but deep as hell too. Weird but its not the worst song on the album, its best served as a bonus song. 7/10
Kanye managed to put out a good R&B/Auto-Tune album without the ability to sing. Congrats!
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