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 ...

Reexamined: Kanye West’s game-changing ‘808s & Heartbreak’ Kanye West at the closing ceremony for the 2015 Pan American Games at Rogers Centre in Toronto on July 26, 2015. (Timothy A. Clary ...

Kanye to perform '808s and Heartbreak' live. Maeve McDermott. USATODAY. For one night only, Kanye West fans can see the rapper perform his groundbreaking 2008 album 808s and Heartbreak in full.

Thankfully, there are those 808s. Kanye constructed the songs using a classic Roland TR-808 drum machine, and the results are a pleasant shock: stark, spacey tracks, which owe far more to Eighties ...

The cover of 808s and Heartbreak. Kanye West's new album is built on two false premises: that from great pain comes great art, and that old-fashioned rapping is not an adequate vessel for such ...

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 ...

808s and Heartbreak isn’t just an album that says “my mom’s dead and my engagement is over so let me just steal T-Pain’s thing and people are going to ride with it just because I’m Kanye ...

Kanye West’s 808s and Heartbreak was, upon its impact almost seven years ago, an instant source of bewilderment and fascination. A down-tempo album with little in the way of sampling and more ...

And while it’s almost certainly too much to hope for an “808s”-caliber release out of 2018 Kanye, the rest of hip-hop hasn’t stopped being inspired by the album.

A songwriter on Kanye West‘s ‘808s & Heartbreak’ has stated their intention to donate their cut of publishing royalties to Black Lives Matter. Esthero, the Canadian singer-songwriter who co ...