Comments on: Kanye West – “Heartless” Live @ The American Music Awards Video

By: sonny

sonny — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:35:17 +0000

http://www.thefader.com/features/2008/11/25/fader-58-kanye-west-cover-story-and-interview

By: The Fuzzz

The Fuzzz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:27:12 +0000

Yo, for a man, sorry, for an artist to express and do what he needs to do is respectable. If he’s done with hip hop, let him be done with hip hop. I still see this as hip hop. Shit, the title of the album has hip hop in it. 8-0-8 is the founding break beat of our culture. He’s comin’ back with a hip hop album next spring/summer according to a couple interviews. If you lost your mom, fiance, and sanity in a year, wouldn’t you want to keep occupied, artistically and mentally. Also, at the same time express those feelings in the only way you know how, through the only true expression you have left and has always been there for you, hip hop. That’s what Common did on Electric Circus, but shit we said that he sold out and it wasn’t common sense, it was space ship music, it wasn’t hip hop. Go back and listen to that album now, and tell me it’s not Kanye’s album, or any Outkast album, or an album that was ahead of it’s time. Time is always the true judge in these things. I know even though the new Q-tip came out, I’m still listening to Amplified.

By: ronnie

ronnie — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:34:22 +0000

that was in reference to kanye’s quote, btw. :)

although, as gotty noted, i do look at the LP as a 21st century here my dear, but that’s in the grand scheme. I dig kanye but he ain’t my marvin. lol

By: ronnie

ronnie — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:11:57 +0000

RE: comment #17:

a lot of us feel that way.

By: Caribbright

Caribbright — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:07:14 +0000

“Taking a sample, looping it and doing all that ‘throw your hands up in the sky’ thing has become such a cliché. Hip-hop is over for me”.

So says Kanye in an interview with Britain’s Daily Telegraph…

Read the interview here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/21/bmkanye121.xml

I get the feeling Kanye thinks he’s created a 21st century “Here, My Dear”, but I think it falls well short, musically and lyrically (to say nothing of vocally of course).

By: Bull

Bull — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:46:08 +0000

U know u want that jacket!!!

And we all got glasses at the Glow in the Dark Tour.

By: Deen

Deen — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:38:19 +0000

TEEF, ain’t nothing wrong with knowing what you like and sticking to it. I may be the biggest sushi lover in the world, but I’ll never know cause I don’t fucks with raw fish (or whatever else they put in it) and I’m healthy and happy that way.

As far as this album goes, even if you judge it by non-rap standards, it still fails. Unfinished and boring are the words that come to mind. I actually dozed off during the first song and I never ever take naps during the day. I guess the album is good for that.

By: OED

OED — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:18:06 +0000

Kanye West starring in Tron

http://www.graphpaper.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/tron_user.jpg

By: Clean LaTEEFuh

Clean LaTEEFuh — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:56:48 +0000

^ lol

By: Mr. Royale

Mr. Royale — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:52:22 +0000

808 & Heartbreaks does have blips of tolerable listening points, but it does seem redundant and unfinished to me. Its like if you buy the album its gonna be … the love lockdown song with the words “you lose … you lose” on repeat … for 12 tracks. lol.

why cant he just cry like normal people. Do you really have to fuck with my hiphop.