New Kanye West - "Heartless" (Live In L.A.)

The new official release date of 808's & Heartbreak is 11/25. That comes straight from the mouth of Kanye onstage at Key Club in L.A. this weekend, which is an even more primary source than his blog considering his blog is written by robots and interns. West was in the club for a MySpace show celebrating T.I.'s Paper Trail and walked on for "Swagga Like Us," "Love Lockdown," and a verse from "Heartless," a new cut slated for 808's. The clip's brief, and though the lyrics are trading in "Lockdown"'s heartbreak, it's clear the new record won't be a concept album built solely on downcast beats and autotune.

(via Prefix)

OK, jury's still out on the autotune part. The L.A. Times reports Rihanna was on hand, too, to join T.I. on the Numa Numa sampling "Live Your Life." In other Kanye news, his Curb Your Enthusiasm-styled HBO show got the red light. But the puppet show is unfortunately still a go.

Posted at 11:17 AM by amrit
Tags: Kanye West | T.I.

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This is heading more in the right direction.. Love Lockdown is trash, but this is sounding, dare I say "dope". Can't wait to hear this one..

Posted by: Mark at 10/06/08 12:37 PM  | Reply
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god it's good.

Posted by: grace6697 at 10/06/08 12:44 PM  | Reply
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Really good, better than "Love Lockdown" for sure.

Posted by: Ruben at 10/06/08 1:26 PM  | Reply
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not better than love lockdown at all. i'd like to hear it so i can actually hear the verses, and yeah that autotune is horrible.

Posted by: Kevin at 10/06/08 2:46 PM  | Reply
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It's way better than "Love Lockdown" for sure. I really liked "Lockdown" when it was first released, but now I realize it's just a plain boring and repetitive simple song. The only interesting thing about it are the drums on the chorus. "Heartless" is, at least, more powerful, and more... Kanye-style.

Posted by: Ruben  in reply to Kevin's comment at 10/07/08 1:47 PM  | Reply
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I think this is a full as a song you'll find on YouTube. Has 2 verses. Quality is crap but lyrics are on the right.

Posted by: vdiddy  in reply to Kevin's comment at 10/13/08 4:12 AM  | Reply
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good lord, this is like 'gone' meets 'good life'.

honestly i don't see the big deal with the autotune either. i think it fits the synth-pop aesthetic rather than having a john legend clone just sing the hook on each song.

Posted by: Sean at 10/06/08 3:49 PM  | Reply
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Sounds like he borrowed the Still DRE from the doctor. Sounds like a heater.

Posted by: Innovation at 10/06/08 5:51 PM  | Reply
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Is the whole album going to be in autotune?
I never thought I'd say this but Kanye West is starting to bore me.
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Posted by: Will3 at 10/06/08 8:36 PM  | Reply
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Stream or download the FULL MP3 here.

http://swiftsharing.com/play_audio.php?audio=25

Posted by: someoneisafan at 10/16/08 2:19 AM  | Reply
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