Video: Kanye West - Love Lockdown (Live on Kimmel) + 808’s & Heartbreak Listening Reviews
Ok so, last night in L.A. Kanye held the listening party for 808’s And Heartbreak. No, I didn’t go, it’s not that serious, although I wouldn’t have minded being there to witness the 40 naked girls. Hit the jump for some links.

Myspace’s A Place For Hip-Hop has a somewhat detailed account of the night, complete with paraphrased quotes from Kanye:
“Would you judge a grandmother’s love? Give it 2.5 mics out of 5?… If I wanna rap, I’ll rap. If I wanna sing, I’ll sing. I told Jay, LA Reid and everyone at my label that I needed to put this out right now, I’ll have another album in June, but this has to come out right now…”
And the FADER also offers a quick rundown:
After waiting in a loading area with an open bar and a DJ, we walked up a driveway illuminated by florescent lights to a darkened room where approximately forty nude women, most of them wearing face-obscuring masks seemingly made of faux lamb’s wool, stood in the middle—black girls in the front, white girls in the back. Then the entire album played without introduction or explanation. The women were backlit by glowing lights—mostly red and purple, sometimes strobing, often pulsing and sporadically illuminating.
So yeah, this is album is basically going to be Electric Circus meets The Love Below.
This entry was posted by eskay on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 at 11:49 am and is filed under Graf, Miscellaneous. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.




October 15th, 2008 at 11:51 am
YOU LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE
October 15th, 2008 at 11:52 am
This finna be a classic
October 15th, 2008 at 11:52 am
another album in june?
shit, this nigga grindin like shit!
October 15th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I hate rapper that sing I’m giving up if hov sings on b3
October 15th, 2008 at 11:52 am
808’s>Graduation>CD>LR
October 15th, 2008 at 11:53 am
This sucks
October 15th, 2008 at 11:53 am
So basically Kanye is saying skip this album and wait till next year? I’m cool with that.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:54 am
you can have her just give me solange im good
^ Her body is nice. She looks like Orlando Jones with a wig though lol
http://www.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/orlando-jones1.jpg
October 15th, 2008 at 11:54 am
I’m not gonna front though that one line is poignant.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:55 am
I hope Jay abuses that auto-tune on bp3. He kills these dudes
October 15th, 2008 at 11:55 am
sleep Says:
October 15th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I hate rapper that sing I’m giving up if hov sings on b3
^
See: “Give it to me”……probably the only time you’ll hear Hov sing…..I got faith in Hov
October 15th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Eskay says : So yeah, this is album is basically going to be Electric Circus meets The Love Below.
______
thats exactly what I was thinking
* waits for June album *
October 15th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Why didn’t you go?
Couldn’t get time off from work??
October 15th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Kanye West is teh ghey
October 15th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Saying No No No Nooooooooooo
October 15th, 2008 at 11:58 am
the power of the P U S S Y…..
watch this nigga sell ten mill.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:58 am
if this album had to come out now, he’s probably really spittin (or singing) from the heart. . . .
808s and Heartbreaks will probably be a must have.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:59 am
LA = The Home of Beautiful People….
LA = Home of Fake Tits, Blue Eyes and Bleached Blonde Hair
LA = Home of Pornostars and Hollywood Celebrities
LA = Home of Watts, East LA, Compton, Long Beach and Gangbanging
ESKAY YOU SHOULD OF REALLY MADE YOUR WAY OUT HERE…you would of enjoyed it for sure…
SOUTHWEST is ya friend…
October 15th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
im ashamed of how much im going to relate to this album -_-
October 15th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
TB is straight up beating down BOSTON…wow…never saw this coming..
I was hoping…for a LA Dodger vs BOSOX world series…to have that Manny Ramirez reunion…
Those fucking Phillies are good though…hate them mufukkaz…
October 15th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
TB is straight up beating down BOSTON…wow…never saw this coming..
^ This guy at the job rocks nothing but Boston gear and all I can do now is smh at him when he walks by lol
October 15th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
“Kanye continues “The way these songs connect with you, God uses me as a vessel- he puts me through pain so that I can go through it, and create…” » “dont put God in some petty shit like this cause if you do you’re disrespecting God” -P Diddy, Making the Band season finale
October 15th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Test
October 15th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Test
October 15th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
dont put God in some petty shit like this cause if you do you’re disrespecting God” -P Diddy, Making the Band season finale
^^
no sign.
i get what he’s saying. . . he’s in a position of power, so God is using him to create music to help people alleviate their own pain.
powerful shit.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
TheCo!!inB Says:
October 15th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
“Kanye continues “The way these songs connect with you, God uses me as a vessel- he puts me through pain so that I can go through it, and create…” » “dont put God in some petty shit like this cause if you do you’re disrespecting God” -P Diddy, Making the Band season finale
^That’s one quotable ass nigga…
*daps to all that are present*
October 15th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
This “album” will be a completely embarrassing, overblown, ego-driven pile of warm peanut mulch. A complete fiasco in the making. It would probably be more interesting as mixtape, lol. But, whatever, Kanye Stans can start wetting themselves now.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
This is the second Kanye party with Butt Nekkid Hoes that I missed. I need to get my network game up.
I prolly woulda got booted for touchin tho, or ashin my blunt on they toes.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Is Ne-Yo gay?
Check out these pictures…he’s wearing lip gloss, has a lip ring, and his eyebrows are arched…
mediatakeout.s3.amazonaws.com/photo/1218200962neyoqdefjam2.jpg
mediatakeout.s3.amazonaws.com/photo/1218200961neyoqdefjam1.jpg
October 15th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
there’s no chance of this album seeing his previous 3. just my thoughts(c) jay
October 15th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Is Ne-Yo gay?
Check out these pictures…he’s wearing lip gloss, has a lip ring, and his eyebrows are arched…
mediatakeout.s3.amazonaws.com/photo/1218200962neyoqdefjam2.jpg
mediatakeout.s3.amazonaws.com/photo/1218200961neyoqdefjam1.jpg
^Ne-yo is a flamin faggot….
October 15th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
there’s no chance of this album seeing his previous 3. just my thoughts(c) jay
^^^^^^^^
It doesnt really have to tho. I knew that after Graduation he was only gonna continue to push his sound, and Kanye is the type of artist where an ‘Electric Circus’ album was gonna come sooner or later anyway.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Eighty’s Baby Says:
October 15th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
This is the second Kanye party with Butt Nekkid Hoes that I missed. I need to get my network game up.
I prolly woulda got booted for touchin tho, or ashin my blunt on they toes.
^
Lmao
October 15th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
What good with a track by track copy of the Yes We Can mixtape? Still all one big mp3?
October 15th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
*hugs BD*
i swear, some women must have a massage chair in their box, b/c once it’s gone, these niggas go ape shit!
examples?
common
3 stacks
and now kanye. . . . kanye gonna be wearin dashikis and grow dreadlocks on his next album, watch. . . .
October 15th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
yo watch that yung CHEESEburgER video on wshh.com
he makes fun of ne-yo and starts dancing like a queer.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
On another note, I saw Maino the other day (in Brooklyn, where else, lol) and I asked him if anything else happened after that incident with Yung Berg in Atlanta .he said, Yeah, he called to apologize. And blamed him talkin out of turn on taking a whole bunch of drugs.
Wowza. -Miss Info-
*touches a white woman’s but in 1919*
October 15th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
*touches a white woman’s but in 1919*
^
*in alabama*
October 15th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
why is nahrizzle so slow today, my lurk game is in jeoparody
October 15th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Why was Yung Berg quick to make a diss video for Ne-Yo but was quiet as kept with everyone else.
And what was with that Stoopid ass backpack rocket launcher he was wearin.
SMH@”we in the studio makin hits.”
October 15th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
“Miss Independent is that you homie”
Yung Berg is funny…
He went in Ne-Yo something serious….Summer Jam Computer Screened that nigger
October 15th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Eighty’s Baby Says:
October 15th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
there’s no chance of this album seeing his previous 3. just my thoughts(c) jay
^^^^^^^^
It doesnt really have to tho. I knew that after Graduation he was only gonna continue to push his sound, and Kanye is the type of artist where an ‘Electric Circus’ album was gonna come sooner or later anyway.
^tru dat
October 15th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
^whts that about
… and yea touching a white womans butt, in 1919, in Alabama is one of the most original ways to off your self that I’ve seen.
… But when fux said *jumps in front of the bullet meant for JFK* that was absolutely ridic.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
i swear, some women must have a massage chair in their box, b/c once it’s gone, these niggas go ape shit!
^This is the truth. If a chick can fuck me the way I want, she can pimp a bentley out of me.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
The Chronic > Illmatic
The Chronic > Reasonable Doubt
NO WEST COAST BIAS
October 15th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
LOL @ Papagiorgio
October 15th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
bird turds > yung berg
October 15th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
That phonte track is smooth. Sounds like some underground early 90s shit.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
you could put the moon in my left hand, the sun in my right
and i still wont be done with the mic, grip it, u mite catch him
tool in his left hand, a brick in his right
but i swear im almost done with the white flippin, they mite grip him
-freeway
October 15th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
yung burger is a damn fool, when did he cop game’s face tat?
October 15th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
@ Papagiorgio
yo whats that address .I’ll get some of the co-workers to vote.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Eighty’s Baby Says:
October 15th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
This is the second Kanye party with Butt Nekkid Hoes that I missed. I need to get my network game up.
I prolly woulda got booted for touchin tho, or ashin my blunt on they toes.
^^
LMFAO.. can’t breathe, pod’d.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
how come noone brings up the fact that rap completeley swagger jacked dancehall reggae(again) with the whole vocoder autotone shit
October 15th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
>how come noone brings up the fact that rap completeley swagger jacked >dancehall reggae(again) with the whole vocoder autotone shit
/\ Because what’s the point? You say it, and then what do you do…say it again? And then what? Make the artists give disclaimers at the beginning of their auto-tune records?Who cares.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Hey whats up everybodes this is Darius, I am really luvin Kanyes vibe on 808s and Heartbreak so much that i recorded my own version of his album (even tho i didnt hear it yet) it’s called 809 and Heartbreak and its al about my own relationships difficultes, for example my woman Claudete broke up with me and broke my heart becas i kept pissing in the bed time after time like cyndi lopper, look i’m only spitting and singing truth, auto tune style, real talk, so guugle Darius presents… 809 and Heartbreak the freshest kanyezy tribute album reppin wyoming
October 15th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
so hes not rapping in this albuM?
October 15th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
[...] Spotted at eskay’s. Also, the preliminary results are in regarding Mr. West’s 808’s & Heartbreak listening party. Here’s a quotable from FADER magazine: “As for album: yes, it’s almost entirely sung by West, aside from one verse by Young Jeezy on “Amazing” and a duet with Lil Wayne; yes, it is sung almost entirely through Auto-Tune; yes, some people are not going to be sure what to make of it, but we applaud West’s decision to step off a creative ledge wearing a jetpack that no one else is sure will actually work.” [...]
October 15th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
White girls in the back…lol, Kanye on his Garvey right now…
October 15th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Uuuuhhh, sounds terrible.
He should stop this wacky voicebox-shit.
October 15th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Um helluuu, anyone care about my project?
is a trebute to kanye 808 heartbreks
October 15th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Instead of doing two albums in the span of a year, why don’t you wait and drop one really dope album in June
October 15th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
dude wishes he was thom yorke lol
October 15th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
I think people here are going to be surprised by how it sounds. I was there last night and the album is very electronic and all sad. There are beats that sound like Bjork and Justice. All vocoder voice throughout. He raps maybe one verse of one song the rest is distorted vocoder singing. Wayne and Jeezy are each on a song. I’m still undecided on my opinion. Need to listen again.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
This will be his best yet. Only child dealing with the death of his mom and the craziest of Hollywood.
808 = music machine … and Heartbreak
Blind, untalented non-thinkers will skip this one.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
i was there….i havent read the other replies but i loved the album and i smoked a fatty with rick ross….good times!
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:21 pm
[...] Pat, No ID and crew were finalizing the drums and sounds of the whole album and since I hit up his listening party/event on Tuesday night, he asked me what my favorite songs were. I’m definitely feeling the new track [...]