The repetition of the hook is a depiction of his struggle to escape the circular, repetitive monotony of the path to achieving his destiny. Scrolling through the comments on YouTube will give some indication as to where people believe Drake may have originated. If we skip the uncomfortable ‘Robocop’, we come to ‘Street Lights’. The tribal drums introduced in ‘Amazing’ are there to exaggerate his point. ‘Welcome to Heartbreak’ is describing his emptiness in ways salient to everyone. Kanye is always allowing the listener to keep up with his narrative. At the time, those eager to hear from Kanye wouldn’t leave time to appreciate the thoughtful gesture by Kanye. This is time to reflect on inevitability despite our pleading. The track ends with 3 minutes of the beats on loop. Kanye’s vocals are sparse between the minimal beat made to resemble a heart rate monitor. Listening back to the album now, its sounds less like the departure from urban music than it may have done at the time. The Hip Hop and RnB scene was not prepared for this swerve from convention, especially from the ‘jackass’ who’d hurt America’s darling. was making movements through the charts with his hustler with a heart bars, and Chris Brown had blown up in the scene as the crown prince of RnB. Lil Wayne was at the peak of his fame with The Carter III and its hilarious innuendo and bravado, T.I.
We must remember the environment into which the album was unleashed. It instead changed the path that the scene had been heading towards. But the thing here is 808s and Heartbreak wasn’t ahead of its time. Often this is the way for art created ahead of its time. The album was greeted with mixed reviews at the time. It seems as though the publication began to appreciate the decision to keep the ‘Fun-o-Meter” firmly off. Their revisit of this album in 2014 was littered with phrases like “ emotionally naked”, “ exposed-soul”, “ feelings enumerated in detail”. We’ll start with the Rolling Stone’s review in 2008: “ This noble failure of an album might easily have been a noble success if he had tweaked the Fun-o-Meter just a bit”. Time has been exceptionally kind to it and has even caused many to change their minds regarding the album. My point is simply that this album is the most influential of that year. This article also will not be simply another manifestation of my Kanye obsession. Nor am I suggesting this is the best Kanye album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is, as far as I’m concerned, the masterpiece within his repertoire. By no means am I claiming this was the best album of 2008, Vampire Weekend would win that. Let me elaborate on my plans for this article.
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