How Kanye West’s ‘808s & Heartbreak’ Influenced A New Generation Of Rap | Genius News

What if I can explain it to you

Without ye there would be no new school hip hop

YE DA 🐐 NO 🧢

Hip Hop was like 90% gangsta music until Kanye showed up

Let me say Hello to the haters and Bonjour to the smart ones (please excuse my cockiness), first of all let me tell you that I am a young haitian guy who's never been to the U.S in fact I have never been anywhere else other than Haiti or the Hispaniola Island, I am not rich I grew up as an orhphan (no mom, no dad, I am still struggling in a very difficult place, just trying to survive). I learned English on my own cause you know in Haiti we don't speak English and I am an orphan who lives with very little money, proud to say we have our own language too which is Haitian Creole. I know English can be the most beautiful and the sweetest language on earth, however I suggest black people foreigners, black people particulary should learn it and promote this language, it's easy to learn, I can understand French too.

My English is not really that good, but yet still I can appreciate Kanye's work in music, fashion, I learned many things from his music and how he also managed to become an entrepreneur although he should have signed a contract cause it wasn't even necessary ( he could have done everything himself bust any other brand he had money to do it), how he helped and inspire other people and how he's trying to give another meaning to what true education is, so it is unbelievable that lots of americans don't understand he's a blessing to you guys, other big corntries wish they could have genius and leaders like him, I am not praising him just wanted to say a few words cause that's the truth. I think we need to be more tolerant, consider it as an opinion.

He always been a story teller and thats my favorite kind of music. Got a little weird before pablo but whatever.

808’s literally changed the landscape of hip hop this is the most influential album of hip hop

Kanye always said that the greatest instrument ever created is human voice that's why he found using autotune fun to use

Went through a high school breakup when it came out. I was in the 10th grade. This album was the most beautifully put together raw emotional music I’ve heard. Instant Classic. In my Top 10 all time albums.

Yall call him narcissist for saying it but he really is the most influential

paranoid is such an underrated song from 808

DOPE

Kanye really the greatest!

The Louis Jordan and James brown of hip hop

808s came out 15 years ago. Go back and listen to it. This man was lightyears ahead of his time.

Kanye is a dawg!

That trio of Heartless, Amazing and Love Lockdown was…. Man they were such an enormous part of my childhood.

Ai Kanye: "hold my beer..."

This Album aged so amazing

999

808's couldn't birth cudi if he help write the album...a lot of these albums we credit ye for have cudi's handprints all over it

Still the greatest ye album

he made 808s he made 808s he made 808s he made 808s he made 808s

I genuinely pressed play to see what I was missing about Kanye's music but now it finally dawned to me. Kanye West is respected and revered as one of the precursors to today's state of music.

Respect.

mf goat bruh

If you breath in Oxygen and breath out Carbon Dioxide.
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shows how far kanye has came

Steve Corbett GOT SOMETGING RIGHT about the K.West album...perfect description

A million copies sold in one week?substantiated then at least 1 MILLION folks who have wax build up in their deceptive ears. This "music"....S U C K S Whats the KAZOO sounding device thats used to ROBOT your voice. Make u sound electric ,mechanical

"INFLUENCED"? How Mr west influenced a whole generation o ... blah,blah,blah.....started listening to one song. Where a guy uses an electronic devise to make him sound like a Robot?mechanical?Then another dude ,you can't see playing what sounds like a K-MART keyboard....while he's "milking the cow"... G E S T U R E. SHEEPLE. OOOPS I mean people pay$ MONEY. To elbow to elbow w' other SHEEPLE. OOOPS I mean People At a concert...sure glad having been Blessed that what grew out of the Am/Th radio the days I was youth ,the 60s. Beatles,the Doors,Rolling Stones. And. All those one hit wonders,when dudes actually could play an instrument...and the "SINGER" didnt have to use a miniature synthesizer to make his voice better? Trust me Holmes. IT DOESN'T SOUND BETTER...just some thoughts

Ye wasn't the first one to put 808s in beats, but the way he put them influenced all of today's trap/hip-hop music

Kanye is Illuminati!

Not enough credit given to cudi

Amazing is one of my favorite Kanye songs of all time

Back then in 2008 they used auto tune the right way and you can understand the lyrics. Since 2015, once Fetty Wap came around. Music hasn’t been different. It’s been the same and has gotten somewhat worse.

love kanye fr

Don’t get the album it wasn’t that great maybe like 2-3 actually hits

Have to give to Kanye. He had amazing foresight with this album back in 2008. It may or may not be his best album, but it is unquestionably his most influential. It pretty much solidified a whole new sub-genre of rap music that ruled the charts for the next decade.

R.I.P. Juice

Influenced rap? Yea
Influenced style? Hell naw

Give up on the army boots ye. It ain't working.

Ye and Wayne biggest influencers in rap history

I second this. He has one of the dopest beats and lyrics.

808s is a top 4 kanye album

I thought my at the time 12 yr old was so sad and heartbroken listening to that one song…🤣🤣 I didn’t even know y’all just liked the melody. Now I get it!! 🤯

I'm not a fan of Kanye it rap in general but I give credit where it's due. And Kanye is one of the biggest stars to come from my generation.

He's following a very similar path to a little known musician that goes by the name Bob Dylan. Although the style is different they booth shook up and influenced tons of musicians. And not just future musicians but there peers and fellow musicians they work right alongside and sometimes even against.

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I mean Kanye LITERALLY brung up Cudi w 808s on heartless