Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, broke boundaries with ‘808s and Heartbreak’, an album born in the wake of deep personal loss and heartbreak. After losing his mother, Donda West, to an ...

So a change was needed – and, to his credit, "808s And Heartbreak" is Kanye's step into the unknown. It sees him making the brave decision to use no samples, with every track instead based ...

It was the middle of October 2009. It had been over a year since the completion of his last LP, 808s & Heartbreak, but this conversation was my first glimpse of what would become My Beautiful Dark ...