808's

When tracks first started leaking from Kanye's highly anticipated album 808's and Heartbreaks, a lot of the critics were being quite skeptical and RUDE. They were saying he was "Experimenting," and other things like that. But me being the R.O.D. supporter of Kanye that I am, I never doubted the man! From the moment he first performed Love Lockdown....with his grey suit on and that lit up broken heart....I knew Ye was about to give me something I didn't even know I needed. 808's is good from beginning to end, bottom LINE. Ye starts with Say You Will, which is clearly about his ex-fiance and it's damn near everybody's favorite track on the album. Then he goes into Welcome To Heartbreak featuring my future husband KiD CuDi.....this song is about how Ye has been grindin thus far to get all that he has, yet he doesn't have the simple things in life, like a family or just time to be with his loved ones....I mean DAMN....your God sister got married by the lake and you couldn't even stay for the CAKE? That's tough Ye....cake is CLEARLY the best part! Moving on.....next up is Heartless, where he's talking about a cold hearted broad....THE END. I love Heartless as well....but let me tell you why.....that BEAT DROP in the beginning right after he does the chorus.....ILLY.....I immediately rock the shoulders like "You need to WATCH the way you're talking to me YO!" But it's not all about heartbreak on this album.....just when you think you're gonna have to cut yourself, Amazing begins to play...."my REIGN is as far as your eyes can see!" Jeezy blesses this track and does a pretty good job......very much expected from Mr.Jeezy Hamilton. Love Lockdown has enough bass to blow someone's speakers out....turn this one down a little when it comes on, let's not have an incident! Paranoid is just catchy as HELLLLL...."Why are you so paranoid...you worry bout the wrong things, the wrong THINGS!" LOL! But Real TALK No SHIT.....people don't be so paranoid that will drive Mr or the Mrs away. I'm not gonna lie...when I first heard Robocop I was NOT a fan...this is the one song that had to grow on me and it did "OK...Ok ok." Funny story about Street Lights....this was featured on an episode of Grey's Anatomy...a show I watch faithfully and get a lot of good music from. I'm not sure what I was doing....b/c I was paying attention during the entire episode, but I somehow did not hear them play Street Lights...and not a snippet...but the ENTIRE SONG! Needless to say I was pissed when everyone told me I missed it, but WHATEVER! Every time I hear Bad News I wanna go out and SALSA....is that weird? I don't think so....long story short, I like this track TOO...."Oh you just gon' keep another LOVE 4 YOU (that was for you JUSE)". In comes the Vocoder Abusers Anthem...See You In My Knightmares featuring Weezy Wee. EVERYBODY Loves this song......I mean it bangs, but I think people just fall into the Gillie Hype....OH...I mean Lil' Wayne Hype. Coldest Winter is apparently about his late mother Dr.Donda West.....it's sad just like the situation but the song is of course GOOD. Pinocchio Story is the last track on the cd and it's a live version. What bothers me about this song is the screaming fans in the background.....I mean this man is pouring his heart out, crying and shit....I'm pretty sure now is the one time where you should stop being a fan and just be a supporter by giving him your undying attention. If I had to rate this album on a scale of 1 to 10, I would give this bad boy 9.5 hearts(and not 10 b/c one of them had to be broken...for heartbreaks...get it? lol) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. People can say what they want about Kanye and 808's.....the man lost his mother and his fiance around the same time, if that nigga wanted to rap about crayons I would listen. A lyric in the Coldest Winter says "Goodbye my friend, will I ever love again?" I mean I doubt Kanye will ever read this, but YES Ye.....you will Love again.