![]() There is no clothes that I could buy That could turn back the time There is no vacation spot I could fly That could bring back a piece of real life There is no Gucci I can buy There is no Louis Vuitton to put on There is no YSL that they could sell To get my heart out of this hell And my mind out of this jail It's so crazy I got everything figured out But for some reason I can never find what real love is about No doubt, everything in the world figured out But I can never seem to find what real love is aboutĭo you think I sacrificed real life For all the fame and flashing lights? Do you think I sacrifice a real life For all the fame of flashing lights? ![]() This ain’t one of them.Wise men say, wise men say Wise men say you'll never figure out real love You'll never figure out real love You'll never figure out real love Lots of great albums have been born from pain. ![]() I can recite bad poetry into an electric fan and make this album in 30 minutes. “Different” does not equal “genius.” The album is just a rushed and lazy excuse to hop on the auto-tune bandwagon. I’m sure someone will call this album genius and groundbreaking. Although it’s touching, rambling on and on while using Optimus Prime’s voice just doesn’t make for good music. The live hidden track, “Pinocchio’s Story,” is a revealing look into Kanye’s depression. It’s a shame everything is so badly crafted. But the fact that most of the songs sound like they were recorded in an empty soda can bothers me to no end. I guess auto-tune fans will enjoy “Heartless” and “Robocop” – if you just tune out the annoying production I can see someone enjoying their campiness. I don’t buy albums to listen to outtakes from Mario Bros 2. Even “standouts” like the upbeat “Paranoid” sound like background music from an old Nintendo game. The man has produced some of the best tracks in the past five years but most of the beats here sound like something I made on my desktop. Well, at least the beats are good, right? Nope. So when Ye says “My friend showed me pictures of his kids/and all I could show him is pictures of my cribs” on “Welcome to Heartbreak,” he sounds like a bank owner begging for a buyout while drinking Cristal on his private jet. Now, I’m not taking the man’s pain lightly, but these artists need to realize that when you use auto-tune, it produces a shrill effect that makes lyrics like those above sound like they’re coming from a whiny baby. You wait a couple months then you gon’ see They say that they don’t see what you see in me You run and tell your friends that you’re leaving me Most of the lyrics just sound like bad, nerdy poetry. Kanye has never been a master lyricist, but what he lacks in depth is usually covered by his wit. And 808s & Heartbreak might be the biggest offender of the auto-tune craze.Īll the tracks are built around two things – life without his mother and resentment over his ex. The vocoder has been passed around more than dutch at a Method Man and Redman concert. I don’t know understand hip hop’s obsession with auto-tune. Well, it’s not the message I mind here, it’s the method. ![]() ![]() I knew he’d have a lot on his mind, which usually makes for good music. The man has experienced a lot of pain in the last year after losing his mother and breaking up with his fiance. When I heard that Kanye was ditching his long-running college themed albums for his new release, I had no problem with it. “It’s our responsibility as musicians to keep pushing each other….We will be the new Beatles, the new (Jimi) Hendrix. “It’s me settling into that position of just really accepting that it’s one thing to say you want to do it and it’s another thing to really end up being like Michael Jordan.” “I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice,” he said in an interview. “You know how n***** have bumper stickers that say ‘What Would Jesus Do?’ Our s*** is like, ‘What Would Jeezy Do?’ What would he say on this record?” “(Young) Jeezy came down to Hawaii with us because every time I’d write a chorus or write any type of hook, I’d be like man, ‘What Would Jeezy Do?'” Ye admitted during a conference call. It’s always sad to see people we once loved slip into mental illness: 808s & Heartbreak (released November 24, 2008) ![]()
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