"808's and HEARTBREAK"

"there is nothing wrong with change if it is i the right direction"

-winston churchill

So I've been a fan Kanye West for the past 3 years now... and everything he puts out there as an artist I've felt was GOLD from his production on Jay-Z albums to his College Droput, Late Registration, & Graduation. So when I heard about 808's I was expecting the same Kanye, and I feel like alot of people were too. I was neglecting to remember that people are ALWAYS evovling and after the death of his mother and break up with Lexi his fiancee I don't think its fair to think that Kanye could possibly be THE SAME person. Kanye is definitely living life differently. 808's is on a another level than Kanye's other albums.

YES kanye is a hip hop artist NO kanye doesn't have to continously produce stereotypical hip hop.

At first when I previewed 808's on myspace I liked it, but I was not full impressed. I felt like Kanye overused the auto-tune affect and he was being more of a singer than a rappper. Overall just was not impressed. But, last night for some reason I couldn't sleep. So I started listening to my ipod and I put on the whole album.. I wanted to see how I liked it when I was JUST focusing on the music.. not doing anything else. I basically let every song play I LOVED IT ♥ I came to the realization that if it wasn't Kanye that put out that album everyone love it.. but because we all have this idea that he has to be this "i don't give a F**K" hip hop artist instead of AN ARTIST PERIOD we've shut our minds from really giving 808's a chance.

I loved the 80's vibe of "Paranoid" and the desperation in "Say You Will" and of course the struggle in "Pinnochio Story". No 808's and Heartbreak isn't the Kanye I feel in love with, but its the Kanye thats developing HIS OWN as an artist, free from a mold, uninhibited

i love it.

"when you ASSUME you make an ass out U and ME"

So basically I had a little experience yesterday that opened my eyes and it really made me want to write.

I was having dinner yesterday at a restaurant with some friends and as the busboy came over to my side to clear my plate I COINCIDENTALLY picked up my phone the same time he grabbed my plate. Then he looked at me and said "Your cell phone wasn't going anywhere... I have a cell phone of my own". The man happened to also be Black. Immediately I was dumbfounded I quickly responded "I didn't think that my phone was going anywhere". The man basically thought that I thought low enough of him to think that he was a thief. I was immediately offended who was this man to think that I was a judgmental person? In the first place I am already very conscious of how I put myself out there and because I am very conscious about what people think of me (yeah its bad but I can't help it). So I wouldn't ever prejudge someone because I believe that everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt. The simple fact that this man thought that I was being racist or prejudge of him based on his look when were THE SAME RACE just baffled me. He and I are one in the same, I know there are many things that do make us different but his exterior is what matches mine what people use to categorize us. I could never just label him a thug or theif just because of what he looks like. His whole statement just didn't make sense to me. His action just really made me think of how much us as a society are too pessemistic of others. Why? Why couldn't he have thought I was just picking up my phone to make a call or send a text? The whole situation just really hurt my heart because I really mean well but it just seems that sometimes there are just gonna be those people who are gonna think the worst. . .