Kanye on putting out 808’s & Heartbreak so quickly…..

“I could have put it out as a mixtape. I always wanted to
do a mixtape called T-Pain Style. And I was like, if
these songs are good as hell, why not put it out as a real
 album? And who’s to say what a mixtape , what’s an album.
 I aint have to drop an album either. What I do at this
point is a gift. And I think people are complaining about
their gift. They can either play with it or not! But don’t
 complain to me about the gift. There’s guys out there,
nobody spoke on our behalf before. Whatever about the
singing. F*ck all the singing, f*ck all the Auto-Tune,
f*ck the He’s A Rapper, he’s not a rapper, he’s going
through something, he has to get this out of his
system, he’s crazy. F*ck all that. It’s men out there who
have never had anyone to speak on their behalf about the
way they feel in a relationship. We don’t feel like, ‘F*ck
 you, bitch, I’m going to f*ck a whole bunch of girls’. NO!
We feel hurt. We feel pain. Like, ‘Damn, why would you say
something like that to me? Damn, I LOVE YOU. Damn, I want
to have a family. Damn, I want to find someone to raise my
kids. Damn, my baby mama’s a bitch. Or she’s not a bitch’.
That more than anything-more than the way I wanted to deliver
this art-is the message behind 808’s.”

oh.

xx,
Mel!ssa