Kanye West You know what I just realised about 808s and Heartbreak?

Started by paulye, May 9, 2017, in Kanye West Add to Reading List

  1. paulye
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    May 9, 2017
    That it was influenced by 80s synthpop, so that's why it's called 808s. If you remove the second eight, you get 80s.

    Actually most of 808s and Heartbreak when they needed the drum machine, they used the 909s drum machine instead of 808s drum machine. So why 808s in the title of the album? Cos it alludes to the 80s

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    Came up with this without pot [​IMG]
     
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    mow long live flippa

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    dude what the f---
     
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    that it sucks
     
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  5. paulye
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    Let's say if the album had taken 90s techno music as influence. Then it would've been called 909s and Heartbreak.
     
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    the extra 8 stands for 2008
     
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  7. paulye
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    How Ordinary Joel gonna like this post and not the OP

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  8. paulye
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    Yeah I know what an 808 is, but I've heard from a reputable source that Ye and Cudi and the g--- mostly used 909. But they didn't put that into the title cos the album put 80s music into new context, not the 90s music.
     
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    Another hidden meaning :oh3:

    Ye a genius visionary :ffpu:
     
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    Oh and right after the album released he went to Hawaii to work on MBDTF

    Hawaii area code is 808
     
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    "Goin' back to Honolulu just to get that.....that Maui-Wowie."
     
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    :oh2:
     
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