Kanye has stated that he wishes the album to be classified as pop because, as he said, "People think pop is bad, but Michael Jackson was pop and who can compare to him?" The album is now available for purchase at iTunes with an exclusive video of Pinocchio Story. The story goes that she heard the freestyle and liked it so much that she bugged Kanye to include it on the album. It was added to the tracklist just before the album was sent to manufacturing, supposedly at the behest of Beyonce Knowles.
The final track, Pinocchio Story, is a freestyle he performed during a concert in Singapore. The first 10 tracks of the album deal with his breakup with Alexis while the 11th track, Coldest Winter, is about the death of his mother. Kanye decided early on that every song was to feature Kanye singing with the use of Auto-Tune and the TRS-808, an electronic drum machine. It was finished over 3 weeks in Hawaii and was made in response to the death of his mother, Donda West, in November 2007 and the breakup of his relationship with fiance Alexis Phifer. The album is a marked departure for Kanye. "If spring can take the snow away / Can it melt away all of our mistakes?" he asks mournfully, answered only by an echo of the exact same question.Kanye West's 4th studio album, "808s and Heartbreak," was released on November 21st in some European countries (including Denmark and Germany) and November 24th in North America. "Coldest Winter" specifically is dedicated to his late mother. Kanye's pain over these losses is palpable throughout the album.
If I'd never made it in the music business, it never would have happened."
"I feel like I moved to California, then my mom moved to California," West told the Guardian, "and she did stuff she wouldn't have done if we'd stayed in Chicago. West blamed himself in part for his mother's untimely end. He also split from his fiancee, Alexis Phifer, after an 18-month engagement. In the years before the album's release, Kanye lost his mother, Donda West, whom he had immortalized in his music several times before, to complications from a cosmetic surgery. "The type of ideas that it was coming up with, the melodies that were in me - what was in me I couldn't stop." "It was just what was in my heart," the rapper told MTV Europe at the time. This calculated, morose meditation was the only album that Kanye could make at this point in his life.
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