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808s and Heartbreak 💔

Album Ranking: 9/10

808s & Heartbreak Cover

Important Info

This is one of Kanye's most tragic albums hence the name. It takes place after his mom passed away and his fiance left him. Kanye uses auto-tune in this album to give a retro sound to his vocals. This albums also inspired many other hip hops artists such as Travis Scott and The Weekend.

Tracklist


Important Songs

Pinochio Story

This song is pelciluar, it is a live preformance but there is no studio version of this song it is only live. This song uses Pinochios story as an anolgy of Kanye's life on how he wants to be a "real boy".

Heartless

This is one of Kanye's most popular songs and easily the most popular off the track. It details the same relationship he's talking about throughout the album and how she brought out a bad side in him.

Streetlights

This song is many people's favorite off the album. It is a very heartfelt song and details how bad kanye feels in this period of time.


Top 5 Songs

  1. Robocop
  2. Streetlights
  3. Paronid
  4. Love Lockdown
  5. Heartless

Worst Song

Welcome To Heartbreak

This song isn't terrible but it's the only song on the album I would consider bad. This is because it is very slow and even boring pace wise and not very entertaining.


Favorite Quotes

"Let me know
Do I still have time to grow?
Things ain't always set in stone"

Quote From Streetlighs

Goodbye my friend
Will I ever love again

Quote from Coldest Winter


Kanye holding microphone on stage

Photo by unknown from snl.no


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Late Registration
Graduation
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Yeezus

* = Interlude