These included songs like the nine-minute “Never See Me Again,” leaked in 2009, which is sprawling, eccentric, and a little pained –– and one of the most revealing pieces of his catalog (“Maybe I should stop being real / Maybe I should get on Twitter”). It was around the turn of the decade that a small handful of West’s demos leaked online, including some that were obviously far from finished. It was a patient, meticulous version of the Pablo idea, which was, by comparison, manic and incomplete. But the final versions were longer and stranger than the versions already in the public sphere. When he announced the tracklisting for the album, fans were critical of how many of the songs had already been released. Throughout the spring and summer of that year, he dumped a massive batch of songs online, some of them in a weekly series called G.O.O.D. The more thorough application of this evolving ethos might be found on West’s 2010 opus, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
It made the album seem vital and alive in a way that it otherwise might not have the strings on “Robocop” or the piano on “Welcome to Heartbreak” seemed like shots at the buzzer that bounced once, twice, and finally went in. It was not at all uncommon in this era for entire albums to leak (in fact, it was a virtual certainty that an album would be on file-sharing databases a minimum of five days before its release date), but it was strange to hear so many works in progress, including alternate versions of the same song. But in the months leading up to 808s’ release, a series of half-finished album tracks leaked at irregular intervals. He debuted the lead single, “Love Lockdown,” at the VMAs, leading to frenzied message board threads wondering if the previously bulletproof rapper had gone fully off the rails. A little over a decade ago, when West announced that he would follow Graduation –– his relentlessly commercial album designed to fill stadiums and topple 50 Cent –– with a pop/electro/R&B/whatever breakup album called 808s & Heartbreak, he was widely ridiculed.
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