The Recent Life of Kanye West
Turning Pain into Art
808s & Heartbreak, West's fourth studio album, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts and later went platinum. The highly Auto-Tuned pop album addresses the pain West felt over his mother's death and his breakup with Phifer.
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