How exactly did 808s and Heartbreaks influence the game?

[Kenzo Ten]

I see a lot of people (maybe its a coincidence but usually it’s backpackers) trying to validate 808s greatness due to it’s influence

what exactly is that influence?

As far as I know, kanye just tried to copy that T-Pain album

T-Pain Says Kanye West Copied One Of His Albums For 808s & Heartbreak

If anything T Pain deserves all these credits

 

[Nuuko]

 

[Prynce]

Production and introspective tracks

 

[charmander]

that shyt was trash lol

 

[The Bookie]

Fish for daps, brehs.

 

[Izanami]

What people won't tell you is this man influenced THAT album.

 

[BronxFleeZ]

That soft sounding hip hop. The reversed keys and reverb toms as snares.

 

[Cracked]

Autotune had been used before that album but not in the same vein. He introduced introspective crooning over a sad beat.

 

[Nuuko]

 

[Menelik II]

millenials
take out of tune autotune as your influence

 

[Controversy]

The album was way ahead of its time

The sound is still relevant today

There would be no Drake without 808s

It's honestly my 2nd fav Ye album

 

[I love Latina women]

T- Pain influenced who did 808's and then everybody and they mama wanted to use auto tune.

That album is cool on it's own artistic merit but I don't like the influence it (really T-Pain) had on Hip Hop.

It's cool when 1 or 2 people are doing something but the minute it becomes a trend it's wack.

Ye was able to pull it but it became wack and redundant when everybody and their mama tried to make that auto tune emo music

And the real influence for that album came from T-Pain. Ye needs to thank his ass for the influence. lmao

 

[wingstop]

The album was way ahead of its time

The sound is still relevant today

There would be no Drake without 808s

It's honestly my 2nd fav Ye album

nah cause phonte would still exist

 

[GPBear]

Fish for daps, brehs.

shyt's flagrant.


here's Lil Uzi rapping over RoboCop like a month ago
Not that lil uzi's great, but it's stupid to deny the album had an influence. Brehs are bringing up beats from that album 8 years after it was released and that was just the beat, had nothing to do with autotune.

 

[Xtz23]

In reality it was the time around wen hip hop turned more and more wack with lil Wayne and Kanye, DJ Khaled , rick Ross etc