Kanye sells 450,000, besting GNR, Ludacris and Taylor Swift
anye West earns his third straight No. 1 on The Billboard 200 as 808s & Heartbreak bows in the top slot
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808s & Heartbreak off to a strong start
Kanye West has a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. His fourth album 808s & Heartbreak is on pace to sell between 450-500,000 copies based on first-day estimates. That would make this Kanyes third biggest debut of his career (following Graduation and Late Registration) and his third No. 1 album
from Rap-Up.com
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Kanye wins two AMA awards
Kanye took home the awards for Favorite Male Rap/Hip-Hop Artist and Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album for Graduation
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808s & Heartbreak Released on iTunes
The iTunes special edition come with two videos and a digital booklet
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Road to 808s & Heartbreak
On August 31st 2008, at the Nike+ Human Race Concert, Kanye performed - for the first time ever - Love Lockdown in front of thousands of fans
On September 2nd 2008, it was announced that Kanyes brand new single Love Lockdown would be released in a matter of days, and that he would be releasing a new album before the end of year
Not long...
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The Heartbreak Samples, Pt. 2: Coldest Winter
...bands and genres from which he chooses to draw inspiration, and Memories Fade by English pop rock group Tears For Fears is no exception
The song was first released in 1983 on the album The Hurting very fitting for a sample on an album about heartbreak, dont you think
Memories Fade is an incredibly wordy song. Its got a good feeling, but I...
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Will Prince x kanYeLive.com Limited Edition T-Shirts
Check out this extremely limited edition T-Shirt designed by Will Prince for kanYeLive.com
These will be sold out very fast so order now while you still can
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The Heartbreak Samples, Pt. 1: Robocop
This is the first of a series in which well post a song sampled on Kanyes new album 808s & Heartbreak
Robocop contains samples from Estellas Theme, a song from the score of the 1998 movie Great Expectations
The film is a modern re-telling of the classic Charles Dickens tale Great Expectations writes kanYeLive.com member dayobliss, Estella is...
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LA Times: Kanye West examines real vs. fake on 808s and Heartbreak
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But this stars constant craving to be original leads him away from the rawness that characterizes such revelations. On an album that he has said is about emotional nakedness, West finds his beating, bleeding heart in inanimate objects the Roland TR-808 drum machine that revolutionized electronic music of the 1980s and the Antares...