808's And Heartbreak - Kanye West Reviews

As soon as I heard 'Love Lockdown' I knew I had to buy this album. West has completely revamped his style - i've always thought he made dull, typical rap music for some reason (I hadn't even listened to much of his music before this, and i made this judgement, how bad am I) but now my opinion has changed and i think Kanye has shown ...  Read the complete review

Described by Kanye himself as a 'pop' album, 808s & Heartbreak was released in 2008 on Roc-A-Fella Records. Completely different to his typical rapping hip-hop style, this album is entirely sung by Kanye using auto-tune to slightly distort his voice into an electronic sound. The same method is typically used by T-Pain, with whom Kanye ...  Read the complete review

With his fourth album kanye breaks away from the traditional rap style of music we have become used to from him to create an album made almost entirely using auto-tune. I am a massive fan of kanye's previous work but I believe this album is the best of the lot. The transition kanye has made from rapper to singer is faultless and many of the tracks ...  Read the complete review

Compared to Kanye West's other CDs, 808 s and Heart break is definitely a let down. Despite this it still manages to be a brilliant stand alone album. The album is definitely not similar to Kanye West's past music but I loved the electro he introduces here. Of course typical of Kanye West, there is a multitude of influences which are not obvious ...  Read the complete review

I have got all of Kanye West's previous albums and I thought they were fantastic, he is easily one of the best rappers in the scene. So I do not understand why he then decided to produce this pop album which has a voice synthesiser on every single track. I think it is good that people try out new styles and different techniques to get a new sound, ...  Read the complete review

I recently went to a Kanye West concert at the O2 and was blown away. Following that i though i would get his new album to check out his latest style. I have always loved Kanye West. However when Love Lockdown was released i was not sure how i felt about his new style. I found though after a while that the song was starting to grow on me. All his ...  Read the complete review

As a concept album, this is not bad. The idea of using Roland TR-808's as the prominent production tool was an inspired one. Kanye West started off as a producer and then became a rapper. I felt he had alot of talent at both. Now he wants to become a singer. I'm far from keen on this. Kanye's singing voice leaves alot to be desired, even with a ...  Read the complete review

I have been a fan of Kanye West work for some time now. The college dropout was a great album which featured the likes of Twista, Ludacris, Jamie Foxx & Jay-Z. Late Registration was a better album which you already know I presume. His last album Graduation took Hip Hop music to a whole new level and featured great artists while also developing ...  Read the complete review

What a revolutionary hiphop CD.

Kanye West shows the world of music again that he is the state-of-the-art hiphop artist of these days.

Kanye West - 808's And Heartbreaks Fresh, Unique, Full Of Spirit and Brilliance (although electronics are overused) Intro ~~~~ I have all Kanye West's albums and enjoy them all. I use to dislike his music a long time ago however I find him to be the best hip hop star out there today. With his style, freshness on his ...  Read the complete review

I came to Kanye West quite late - about 12 months ago. I picked up his albums and immediately fell in love. I'm a lover of rap and Hip-Hop, and Kanye became my number one. His word-play was amazing: filled with double meanings and internal rhymes, I just loved it. Musically, his tracks all had a strong sense of energy too, and a positive vibe. ...  Read the complete review

Ever since 'Through the Wire' hip hop star, Kanye West burst on to the scene in 2003, I feel he has done his job every single time it has came out to putting out a new record. Especially if his job is to split opinion on him as much as possible, as ever since he used the Ku Klux Klan imagery in 'Jesus Walks' to samply Daft Punk on his biggest hit ...  Read the complete review

For his fourth album, Kanye West choose to make significant changes to what he is about as the person know best for his work as a producer and rapper, changes his focus by doing a Pop album, one in which he doesn't rap in at all. Kanye, can't actually sing, which is a great problem for an album full of songs, however he overcomes this proble, by ...  Read the complete review

808s & Heartbreak, hip-hop maverick Kanye West's fourth studio album is, it's fair to say, a curious affair all round. Abandoning (momentarily at least) the politically astute, rapid-fire, hook-heavy rap that made his name, the record consists almost entirely of bleak, icy, vocoder-slathered R&B ballads, most concerned in some way with ...  Read the complete review