Columnist Dylan Gray claims Wests album, 808s and Heartbreak, is his best work this decade.By Dylan Gray, Columnist November 5, 2019 This past Friday, rapper Kanye West released his ninth studio album, Jesus is King, to much anticipation.After several delays and renamings, two acts, which have become motifs of Wests career, the album was finally released on Oct.While that album was an important landmark in his career, if we want to get a firm grasp on just how wide Wests influence has been, it is best to look back just one album further in his discography.
In November 2007, Wests mother died due to complications from surgery, and shortly after, he broke off his long-term engagement with fiance Alexis Phifer. On top of this, West was far more famous now than ever before, leading him to feel lonely and disillusioned. An album with a total length of 51:58 has just four features, including a then up-and-coming Kid Cudi. More important to this theme of loneliness is Wests minimalist production, as many of the albums tracks feature little more than Wests auto-tuned-drenched vocals and a simple 808 beat. West has made his egomania a well-known fact today, but at the time, his super-stardom was only just beginning, with this being his first airing of grievances the public had ever witnessed. ![]() West channeled his inner heartbreak into a raw, minimalist and slovenly piece of art that still reverberates in the music world today. Hit album after hit album afforded West the ability to travel and buy and drive wherever and whatever he wanted, coming at the cost of increased isolation from what he once viewed as the normal world. Wests fame would go on to be a recurring theme in his next few albums, especially the aforementioned My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Yeezus. He would adapt to this lifestyle by marrying Kim Kardashian and immersing himself in a life of fame that he still seems to struggle with.
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