The story goes that she heard the freestyle and liked it so much that she bugged Kanye to include it on the album.

It was added to the tracklist just before the album was sent to manufacturing, supposedly at the behest of Beyonce Knowles. The final track, Pinocchio Story, is a freestyle he performed during a concert in Singapore. The first 10 tracks of the album deal with his breakup with Alexis while the 11th track, Coldest Winter, is about the death of his mother. Kanye decided early on that every song was to feature Kanye singing with the use of Auto-Tune and the TRS-808, an electronic drum machine. It was finished over 3 weeks in Hawaii and was made in response to the death of his mother, Donda West, in November 2007 and the breakup of his relationship with fiance Alexis Phifer. The album is a marked departure for Kanye. From the heavy lift of the visuals accompanying Graduation, to The Life of Pablo’s five-minutes-in-photoshop aesthetic, Kanye West album covers, and the collaborations they've inspired, have never ceased to defy expectation.Kanye West's 4th studio album, '808s and Heartbreak,' was released on November 21st in some European countries (including Denmark and Germany) and November 24th in North America. One glance and it feels like such a departure from albums past, but really this is just another example of him embracing unexpected imagery.

It's an oxymoronic revelation about his experience with mental health and a declaration that it’s part and parcel of his greatness. Stamped in the very center are the words “I hate being / Bi-Polar / its awesome,” a lime green, handwritten, meme he borrowed. It sends you to that moment descending through the sky where you're silently reminded that our planet is a masterpiece. Crowned by snow-capped Tetons and what appear to be clouds of dawn, it’s the kind of flick you’d snap after waking up alone on a flight that’s landing somewhere more a little more pure than where you were before. The cover of Ye-a twenty-three-minute reflection on inner demons, family, and public life-is a serene shot of the sprawling fields that swim for acres in that as of yet untouched corner of America.

Kaws 808s and heartbreak