Meanwhile, ‘808s & Heartbreak,’ ‘Watch the Throne,’ and ‘Cruel Summer’ landed in the “good” zone, though appreciated, not obsessed over. Things got a little hazy in the “lowkey ...

Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, broke boundaries with ‘808s and Heartbreak’, an album born in the wake of deep personal loss and heartbreak. After losing his mother, Donda West, to an ...

It was crazy after that. It was like, literally up.” Among the coterie of producers defining and refining the enormous 808s and warped melodies of dark plugg — tdf, boolymon, perc40 — you ...

So a change was needed – and, to his credit, "808s And Heartbreak" is Kanye's step into the unknown. It sees him making the brave decision to use no samples, with every track instead based ...