The visual was ranked by BET as among the top 100 videos of 2009. The video was shot in Kauai, Hawaii, with it prominently featuring aerial shots of the Hawaiian Islands. It has since been certified platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).Īn accompanying music video premiered via BET's 106 & Park on April 23, 2009. In 2009, the song charted at number 81 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 42 on the Swedish Singles Chart. At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, it was nominated for Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group. Some praised the composition and structure, while numerous critics chose the song as an album highlight. "Amazing" received generally positive reviews from music critics, most of whom complimented Young Jeezy's feature. Lyrically, West sings an attempt to capture part of his former bravado. A hip hop song with heavy pop influences, it features piano. The song was serviced to US rhythmic contemporary and urban contemporary radio stations as the third single from the album on March 10, 2009, by Roc-A-Fella and Def Jam. The producers wrote the song alongside Malik Yusef, Consequence, Jeff Bhasker, and Young Jeezy. It was produced by West, while co-produced by Victor Alexander.
The song features a guest appearance from Young Jeezy, and includes background vocals from Mr Hudson and Tony Williams. The emotionally raw album may not be the easiest listen among Kanye West’s work, but it is arguably the most innovative and influential album of his career." Amazing" is a song by American record producer and vocalist Kanye West from his fourth studio album, 808s & Heartbreak (2008). Its astute blend of R&B and hip-hop tropes, paired with heartfelt, emotionally vulnerable lyrics, reshaped the rap and R&B landscapes, profoundly influencing a slew of musicians such as Drake, Young Thug, The Weeknd, and Frank Ocean in its wake. Greater still was 808s & Heartbreak’s lasting influence on contemporary music.
1 on the Billboard 200, selling 450,145 copies in its first week. The album proved to be another big hit for Kanye West, though, as it debuted at No. The album met with mixed reviews when released, on November 24, 2008, with critics initially scornful of the perceived over-reliance on Auto-Tune and the apparent self-pitying nature of the lyrics. Recorded in California and Hawaii in a mere three weeks, 808s & Heartbreak was the first of Kanye’s albums to feature his “creative CEO” style of recording, boasting over five co-writers on nearly every song. The desolate contents of the album were perfectly encapsulated by its minimal artwork, which depicted a deflated and broken heart on a spare grey background. West chose to pair these raw, uncompromising and bleak lyrics with a production characterized by minimalist, harrowing synths offset with stark brutalist beats (generated by the titular Roland TR-808 drum machine, a mainstay of early 80s hip-hop and synth-pop) alongside various offbeat additions such as taiko drums and monk choirs. Opener “Coldest Winter” deals harrowingly with the loss of his mother, who’d passed away due to complications with cosmetic surgery: “Goodbye my friend, I won’t ever love again/Never again,” he sings, while the bitter aftermath of his break-up with Phifer is addressed on the likes of “Robocop” and “Heartless.” “Welcome To Heartbreak,” meanwhile, was a distraught missive from a man coming to terms with the shallowness of his life, his dreams of success beginning to turn into a nightmare: “My friend showed me pictures of his kids/And all I could show him was pictures of my cribs/… Look back on my life and my life gone/Where did I go wrong?”
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