For one night only, Kanye West fans can see the rapper perform his groundbreaking 2008 album 808s and Heartbreak in full. West will give 808s the live treatment on September 25 at the Hollywood ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Kanye West's '808s and Heartbreak' turns 10, ... USA TODAY. One of the only good things Kanye West has done this year is collectively remind us that “Paranoid” exists.

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 ...

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 ...

Kanye West’s “808s & Heartbreaks”, released Nov. 24, 2008. Aesthetics matter to West, and a element that helped define the 808s & Heartbreak era was the album’s iconic cover.