Wake Up Mr. West

Kanye West has been one of the most successful and influential artist in America since the release of his debut album "The College Dropout" in October of 2002. Mr. West will follow up his Grammy winning album "Graduation" with the release of "808s and Heartbreak" on November 24th. This is the first album Mr. West has released since the death of his mother on November 10th 2007 and one has to believe the traumatic event has had an impact on his writing. "808s and Heartbreak" is very different from all his other albums due to the heavy use of auto-tune similar to that of the artist T-Pain. Even though I have only heard two of the songs off of Mr. West's new album, Love Lockdown and Heartless, they both have a somber tone dealing heavily with heartbreak and loss, which is a far stretch from anything he has previously released. Even though I like the new songs along with the fact that Mr. West is experimenting with a new sound I feel as if he can do much better. He is a rapper not a singer and I feel that by using auto-tune he is suppressing his talent and falling into mediocrity for the first time in his career as a performer.

Professional review of "808s and Heartbreak"