Def Jam / Getty. Before we talk about what 808s & Heartbreak represented the beginning of, let’s look at what it marked the ending of. Revisiting Kanye West‘s fourth album ten years after its ...

The producer and songwriter Jeff Bhasker has worked on four albums with Kanye West. 808s & Heartbreak was their first collaboration, and likely the most memorable. “It was probably the easiest ...

Gone were his trademark soul samples and the flashy crowd-pleasing hits, replaced by spare production and AutoTuned vocals. West recorded “808s” coming off a series of personal tragedies ...

With his 2008 album “808s & Heartbreak,” Kanye West injected a distinct brand of introspective emotionalism into hip-hop and created an incidental sub-genre (see: Drake) in its aftermath.

Nine years ago today (Nov. 24), Kanye West released his groundbreaking "808s & Heartbreak" singing album, which was met with polarizing backlash at the time. The project ended up spawning a new ...