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 ...

Reeling from his mother's death, Kanye's embrace of Auto-Tune and anguish across 2008's 808s and Heartbreak is frequently credited for the rapper-singer sea change, though he wasn't without his ...