MusicMajor Event
808s & Heartbreak Released
November 24, 2008
808s & Heartbreak is released as a radical departure — nearly all vocals delivered through Auto-Tune over sparse TR-808 drum machine beats. Processed through the grief of his mother's death and a broken engagement, the album is polarizing upon release but enormously influential, seeding the emotional DNA of an entire generation of artists including Drake, Kid Cudi, and Frank Ocean.
