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KANYE WEST is of course in the process of releasing his fourth ALBUM entitled “808’s & Heartbreak” on the same day as label mate LUDACRIS. Today he gave the world a view into the album during a conference call (which was pretty much open to anyone). Check out what Ye had to say about his new album and other topics on his mind.

“I just want thank everybody for their support. I’m at a listening session playing my joint for people in the UK. I love doing listening sessions cause I feel like Christmas Day where parents get to see kids opening up their gifts. Cause I feel like I try to give people good music. This album has been like basically based off the devastation and the hurt that I’ve felt within the last year with all the losses that I’ve gone through. It’s kind of settling in being this super famous alien where every where I go someone wants a f**kin’ photograph. It’s hard when you’re not really a celebrity, but you’re a real person that just ended up being famous for your craft. What’s good is that it’s therapeutic for me, and it’s a better option than suicide to just keep putting out music and art. Of course I got a lot of backlash for my medium that I wanted to do this in.”

“I created a thing I call Heartbreak. It’s like a mixed drink of auto tune, distortion with a little bit of delay on it, and a whole bunch of life that I put onto records. That’s what I call my heartbreak, and that’s what every record basically has. I’m delivering what I feel is art and that’s what I want to deliver at this point from now on. With records like “Love Lockdown”, it might not have high hats and s**t like everything else has, but when I go out and be listening to Jimi Hendrix and the Stones and Lenny Kravitz, and they won’t play no Hip Hop records in that. I feel like n***as be giving up on trying to make records on a Quincy Jones level. On this record I’m trying to improve my craft, and trying to push it to a level that no n***a has ever made it to. No n***as have ever rocked 50,000, 100,000 people stadiums ten years after their records came out. And for anybody that saw the tour, you know my goal is to take it a whole other level. Today we’re about to drop one of the records that everybody’s talking about, “Amazing” featuring Jeezy. It’s definitely one of those joints in the club that’s gonna go crazy, that’s gonna send it up like with did with “Swagger”, like we did with “Put On”, and like we always do it this time. This is what my job is. My job is to give y’all s**t that has the model b***hes running crazy, and has n***as bobbing their heads crazy like “Can’t Tell Me Nothin’” and “Flashin’ Lights”. Of course I always hit them with a curve to start off with. Y’all know that “Heartless”, that’s straight n***a s**t. The whole album you can rap over at the end of the day, but I’m trying to put on those Phil Collins’ melodies. I feel even if I’m harmonizing, it’s still from a n***a perspective. I ain’t making no, ‘girl, your nails are the perfect nails, you the perfect-’ naw, this ain’t none of that. This is still that rap perspective music with melody.”

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