There’s no doubt that Kanye West changed the Hip Hop tide and the conversation numerous times. He, among others, have been unafraid to push the envelope and try something different.
Rolling Stone recently recognized the efforts of Mr. West, ranking his 808s & Heartbreak album as one of the “most groundbreaking albums of all time.”
“Kanye West’s Auto-Tune-heavy, emotionally naked fourth album came after a brutal year during which his mother died and his engagement broke up,” the famed music-based magazine wrote. “But the album’s cavernous sound and exposed-soul lyrics confused even those who had been aware of West’s recent trials. Its core aesthetic was like nothing in Hip Hop: freshly butchered feelings enumerated in detail, but masked by digital processing; beds of spare synths used to balance a mix of singing and rapping. However, over time it served as a new template for up-and-comers in Hip Hop and R&B. Drake cited West as his budding sound’s ‘most influential person’ when he was hustling mixtapes, while artists like Future further tweaked the idea of using Auto-Tune as a way to convey emotions that evoke too much feeling when spoken of explicitly.”
Kanye released his fourth studio album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008. Initially the LP was met with mixed reviews as West strayed from his usual sound in favor of a more auto-tune based melody. Over time the album has widely been recognized as one that changed the genre.
Other Hip Hop albums mentioned include Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and Run-D.M.C.’s self-titled debut.
Read the full Rolling Stone story here.
worst album of all time it’s not even a hiphop record
What a joke
Were pleased to announce 808s & heartbreak as the most GROUUNDBREAKING albums of all time.In next edition were looking to pick the most innovative album of all time.Nominations for the Innovative album of all time include: Katy Perry with Teenage dream,New kids on the block with The block,David guetta with Pop Life,Scooter with Back in the house and of course Kanye west with 808s & heartbreak.You can vote here.The winning here and by voting you could be the lucky winner of 1 year free supply of a barrow full of Hubba Bubba from our offices warehouse.Thank you and good luck!!Sidenote!We the staff at Rolling Stones refute those claims that Kim Kardashian have done any sexual explicit favours to any of our high educated music experts,and will not stand by these allegations!!!-Yours Truly Alvin The Chipmunk,Editor In Chief,Rolling Stone.
i found an old rolling stone from 1981 earlier this week. its amazing to see how bad they fell off
Its a terrible magazine nowadays, it used to be not so bad fifteen years ago.
this album was scientifically proven to kill fish and baby hamseters
They didn
t say best album they said most influential. Just listen to music today and tell me it didnt spawn millions of clones?no, music was already like that and kanye jumped on board with it. kanye didn’t influence shit lmao
how bout drake, future and every body else that copied them two. now the whole industry sounds like robots.
808’s & Heartbreak is the only great rap album with no swearing. I feel your pain Yeezy. You lost your mom and your fiance. You were like Coldplay, T-Pain, and Jay-Z on that album. It’s one of the greatest albums of all time and every album you put out is amazing.
“See You In My Nightmares” has the word “shit” in it.
Chamillionaire – Ultimate Victory is the greatest rap album with no swearing fuck kanye nigga is such a wack rapper jay would of left him with the state property weed carriers if he couldn’t flip a sample so good
what the fuck….is this how ridiculously low the term ‘influential’ has fallen?
Which was a completely shit album. Kayne West has been brainwashing loyal niggas from ymcmb like wayne and tyga to leave their company in favor of SHIT music.
U right. John Legend ain’t the most soulful playa in the game, Big Sean has terrible punchlines, Cyhi the Prynce can’t freestyle, and Pusha T ain’t the hardest man in the rap industry today…. Bow Wow, Christina Milian, Chanel West Coast, Paris Hilton, Kevin Rudolf, Lil Twist, Soulja Boy, Shanell, and Young Thug are good though.
Rolling Stone also just wrote a bogus college rape story and a bunch of idiots put everything on lock down at the university. Is Kanye’s music really ground-breaking / influential or just the fuck nuts that decide what is influential?
Auto-tune is for no talent ass clowns that want to sing but can’t. To this day it boggles my mind how Hip Hop became full of a bunch of pussies. Keep the singing to rock, soul & R&B.
rolling stone needs to hop of kanyes nuts
At least he has nuts rrywygdsa
How does them balls taste T-Bolt?Been trying for years to get a taste of them,but Kanye
s so uptight..I could only imagine that they taste like a spoon of sugar,thats atleast the impression i get when were listening to 808s & heartbreak in the ice skating class..It was fucking awful
This is why I don’t read music magazines. Sure, Kanye is one of the most creative, but 808 was nothing more than trash.
That’s because you don’t have a deflated heart that looks like a red balloon.
lmao how they putting this bullshit corny auto-tune album on a list with the Chronic? Kanye is a lame nigga average rapper all he good at is flipping a sample
Huh? Its called taking music from the past that nobody listens to anymore and making it relevant again. You use the sample and build around it to create a masterpiece. Then you spit the greatest raps of all time and say something that nobody has ever heard before. I wanna see you produce a song and rap “under the crib” then I’ll critic your bullshit whiny voice and lame rhymes. UGH!
‘Greatest raps of all time’ LMAO kanye ‘got a dark skin girl look like Michael Jackson got a white girlfriend look like Michael jackson’ FOH kanye is trash everyone knows he would never have got a deal for his rap skills no one was fucking with him for his bars they wanted the beats that’s y dame n jay snatched his chipmunk lookin ass up. Now fuck off n go watch the kardashians you fuck-boy dick rider
808’s and Heartbreaks changed the game, that album birthed artists like Drake and Childish Gambino.
Drake’s mother birthed Drake. And your mother birthed Childish Gambino. Smack your mother in the face one time for me.
2x Times, 2x Times
Donald Glover is whiter than Macklemore.
Actually, Macklemore is of the caucasoid persuasion and Donald Glover is of the negroid persuasion. That makes Donald a bit darker.
Kanye dropped 3 classics before dropping his most influential record, 808s and Heartbreaks. He proceeds to drop another classic gem in MBDTF and then drops two near classics with Watch the Throne and Yeezus. Kanye, along with No ID, Just Blaze, and the Neptunes, dominated the late 90s and early 2000s in production. Kanye is the most influential producer/artist on Jay-Z’s Blueprint, brings Cam’ron back to stardom, brings Common back with his two classics, and shows the world how fly music can be with Talib Kweli.
Is it really any question who the greatest hip hop artist of all time is?
Totally agree with your opinion,i mean fuck real rap!The world wants a rich rapper who just bought gold toilets rapping and moaning about being a slave in the industry.Its truly an inspiring listening.Love this album because it was almost like he was channeling a heartbroken Mariah Carey crossed with T-pain on it.Simply beautiful.Competition for the most groundbreaking album award was really tough though,so shout out to Kanye for pulling through!You have to applaud the man when he beat his fellow nominees Kesha,T-Pain,Trinidad James,Justin Bieber,Pitbull,David Guetta and Avicii.So salute with the award and i all the best!Yours truly,Alvin the Chipmunk,Editor in chief Rolling Stone.
SOME of Kanye’s album are dope but in no way did he “produce” these beats. He has thousands of producers that make beats for him.
Also Kanye West ain’t s* when compared to Timbaland, who was the true king of late 90’s and early 2000s. Just Blaze? That dude is a beatmaker and not a good one!
WATCH THE THRONE IS NOT ANYWHERE NEAR A CLASSIC. PEOPLE ALREADY FORGOT ABOUT THAT WEAK ASS ALBUM. GET OFF THE NUTTS AND START LISTENING TO MUSIC WITH YOUR EARS NOT WHAT THE INDUSTRY FEEDS YOU.
I’ve decided to retire from HipHopdx. I signed a deal with Vince. I’ll be back.
Did I miss something? Honestly I cant listen to that album without skipping 11 out of 11 tracks.
lmao!! real talk!! but to be honest from a musical perspective it was a different type of sound in the way it was put to gether and the vibe it was trying to give
From a musical perspective its better to listen to a couple of sheeps fuckin!Trashalbum however your twistin it!!
Best album of the century by rolling stones
#ANIMAL AMBITION
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#factsdontlie
“My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” is Kanye’s most groundbreaking album to date. It’s his best album and is very dope.
Yeah and its perfect to use as a bugsmacker!