![]() ![]() Recorded and produced in just three weeks, West’s fourth studio album is arguably his most polarising. And the fourth is Good-Ass Job." West scrapped Good-Ass Job and on November 24th, 2008 released the iconoclastic 808s & Heartbreak. "Then my third album is going to be called Graduation. "I'm calling the next one Late Registration," he told MTV. In an interview from 2003, West outlined his ambitious vision for his first four projects before he’d even released his debut record, College Dropout. He also put a stop to completing his planned tetralogy. Months later, West ended his six-year relationship with fiancée Alexis Phifer. When Donda West died of complications from cosmetic surgery in 2007, Kanye’s world was shattered. “This is a song I wrote for my mother back in 2000,” says a fresh-faced 28-year-old Kanye West. “I saved it for the opportunity to be on the Oprah show and perform it for her.” In 2005, the televised world premiere of Hey Mama saw Donda West beaming with joy, dancing next to Oprah as Kanye emboldened a middle-aged studio audience to clap along to his emotional sermon. ![]()
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