![]() ![]() My prayer for Kanye West is that one day he will be able to sing a new song. These 2 events seem to have brought West to a place where he is questioning the way he lives his life and no doubt he is searching for the answer. In ‘Bad News’ the lyrics “My face turned to stone/when i heard the news” touches on the subject of his mothers death and its effect on him. Songs like ‘Robocop’, ‘See You In My Nightmares’ and ‘Heartless’ all talk of the demise of his relationship with a woman (who we assume was his fiance) and his ill feelings towards this person, even though “.we were once a fairy tale/ But this is farewell”. Two events that surely would put anyone in a dark place. In the year leading up to this one, 2 major events happened to West, his mother died from complications due to surgery and he split up with his fiance Alexis Phifer. ![]() This is an easy thing to do because West is always in the headlines, often for the wrong reasons. To put this album in context and try and get into the head space that West was in when he recorded 808s, we have to look at his personal life. In the song “Welcome to Heartbreak’ he sings “Chased the good life my whole life long/Look back on my life and my life gone/Where did I go wrong?”. He clearly knows he is missing something in his life. Lastly his lyrics dwell a lot on the fact that life in Kanye world isn’t going the way he planned it even though he is where he always dreamed. ![]() Secondly and surprisingly, this is no hip hop album (surprising considering Kanye West is a hip Hop artist). The first thing you will notice that musically this album is really dark. Listening to Kanye West and his 4th album 808s & Heartbreak there are 3 things that are plainly obvious. ![]()
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