Heartless - (In the night I hear them talk. Kanye West’s 808’s & Heartbreak Track List. Love Lockdown ‐ (Tribal Drums, Piano, Autotune, Real Feelings, Beautiful juxtapositions, I love rejecting love!)Ĭoldest Winter - When I'm depressed, this almost makes me cry everytime, very emotional song) I’m going to go out on a limb and tell all yall to pick up a damn copy over here. Paranoid - (I sing along with a passion to this, the beat is amazing) Welcome to Heartbreak - (The eerieness sends shivers down my spine, the outro puts me through an emotional spiral). 808s & Heartbreak Side A Say You Will Welcome To Heartbreak Side B Amazing Love Lockdown Side C RoboCop Street Lights Side D See You In My. It often makes me think about my life and it makes me worried if I won't reach my utopia. This artwork will apparently also be included with the album on iTunes.Street Lights - (This is a Top 10 Kanye song imo, this song always puts me through an emotional journey. It was released by Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records on November 24, 2008, having been recorded earlier that year in September and October at Glenwood Studios in Burbank, California and Avex Recording Studio in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is also available from the Amazon MP3 store.Ī version of the album with 'special christmas packaging' artwork by artist KAWS will be released on December 16th ( source). 808s & Heartbreak 808s & Heartbreak is the fourth studio album by American rapper Kanye West. Kanye has stated that he wishes the album to be classified as pop because, as he said, 'People think pop is bad, but Michael Jackson was pop and who can compare to him?' The album is now available for purchase at iTunes with an exclusive video of Pinocchio Story. The story goes that she heard the freestyle and liked it so much that she bugged Kanye to include it on the album. It was added to the tracklist just before the album was sent to manufacturing, supposedly at the behest of Beyonce Knowles. The final track, Pinocchio Story, is a freestyle he performed during a concert in Singapore. The first 10 tracks of the album deal with his breakup with Alexis while the 11th track, Coldest Winter, is about the death of his mother. Kanye decided early on that every song was to feature Kanye singing with the use of Auto-Tune and the TRS-808, an electronic drum machine. It was finished over 3 weeks in Hawaii and was made in response to the death of his mother, Donda West, in November 2007 and the breakup of his relationship with fiance Alexis Phifer. In various spots across 808s & Heartbreak, the constant flutter of Wests processed voice is enlivened by the disarming manner in which despair and dejection are conveyed. The album is a marked departure for Kanye. Kanye West's 4th studio album, '808s and Heartbreak,' was released on November 21st in some European countries (including Denmark and Germany) and November 24th in North America.

808s and heartbreak tracklist