Popcast: The Influence of ‘808s and Heartbreak’

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Times music critics discuss the influence of Kanye West’s album on current musical styles.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:04.4	podcast, your major label Cashin of Musical News.
0:08.4	Is that what it is still?
0:09.9	Ideas, rhythms.
0:11.3	I'm your host Ben Ratliff.
0:13.0	My friend show me pictures of his kids.
0:17.0	And all I can show him was pictures of my cribs.
0:20.0	He said his daughter got a brand new report. And that's welcome to heartbreak by Kagan.
0:25.0	And all I got was a brand new sports car.
0:30.0	And that's Welcome to Heartbreakbreak by Kagnay West.
0:35.0	What a time to be podcasting.
0:37.0	A throwback.
0:38.0	A song maybe you haven't heard in a while.
0:41.0	Sure. Unless you, like me, were at the Hollywood Bowl recently.
0:45.0	Yes, that was what, two weeks ago?
0:47.0	Yeah, about two weeks ago.
0:48.0	You heard the Hollywood Bowl.
0:50.0	Connya did two nights in a row as a tribute to his own album, 8 awaits and heartbreak.
0:55.1	Not an anniversary show of any real particular, maybe that's like what the 7th anniversary or 8th.
1:00.3	I wish I can tell you that I had the secret on why he chose to do this thing at this moment.
1:05.0	The occasion.
1:06.0	The best thing that I could come up with is that Kanya hates to leave something unfinished
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