True to Form

"Heartless" - Kanye West

The first time I heard this song was when Kanye performed it live at the American Music Awards back in Nov. '08. I absolutely love the way it started out, especially because he sang it in the same style as it appears on his album. Some artists tend to mix it up a bit, but I usually like it to stay true to form. In my opinion, if it was good enough to put on the album, then they should be good enough to perform it as is. Otherwise, it's the studio who possesses the real talent, not the artist. Only a few great performers are able to pull this off.

Kanye is so blunt and at times, arrogant. Preaching his work as he damn well pleases. None of it scripted, none of it rehearsed. Now that he finally has the credibility to just put it out there in your face, it's amazing how much he has to say. Let me share with you his speech on that night:

"I’d like to thank everybody who accepted me trying to break new boundaries in music,” Kanye said as he accepted the award for Favorite rap/hip-hop album category for his Graduation album. It’s our responsibility as musicians to keep pushing each other, to keep competing with each other. It’s a really great competition,” Kanye told the audience. “I see artists like
Beyonce and Alicia Keys and Rihanna and Chris Brown and Chris Martin all in the same room and we’re going to push this music to the point where it was like in the 1960s and ’70s where you talk about Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles. We will be the new Beatles. We will be the new Hendrix. They say in any other industry, you know, you’re supposed to do better than the past … but when you say, ‘I want to be Elvis,’ they say, ‘What’s wrong with you?’ Well, I wanna be Elvis.”

http://hiphop.popcrunch.com/kanye-west-american-music-awards-2008-performance-video-heartless/

Lyrics:

In the night I hear 'em talk
The coldest story ever told
Somewhere far along this road
He lost his soul
To a woman so heartless...
How could you be so heartless... oh
How could you be so heartless?

How could you be so,
Cold as the winter wind when it breeze yo
Just remember that you talking to me though
You need to watch the way you talking to me yo
I mean after all the things that we been through
I mean after all the things we got into
And yo I know of some things that you ain't told me
And yo I did some things but that's the old me
And now you wanna get me back
And you gon' show me
So you walk around like you don't know me
You got a new friend
Well I got homies
But in the end it's still so lonely

In the night I hear 'em talk,
The coldest story ever told,
Somewhere far along this road
He lost his soul
To a woman so heartless...
How could you be so heartless... oh
How could you be so heartless?

How could you be so Dr. Evil
You're bringing out a side of me that I don't know
I decided we weren't gonna speak so why we up 3 a.m. on the phone
Why does she be so mad at me for, homie I don't know she's hot and cold
I won't stop, won't mess my groove up cause I already know how this thing goes,
You run and tell your friends that you're leavin' me
They say that they don't see what you see in me
You wait a couple months then you gon' see,
You'll never find nobody better than me

In the night I hear 'em talk,
The coldest story ever told,
Somewhere far along this road
He lost his soul
To a woman so heartless...
How could you be so heartless... oh
How could you be so heartless?

Talkin', talkin', talkin', talk,
Baby lets just knock it off
They don't know what we been through
They don't know 'bout me and you
So I got something new to see
And you just gon' keep hatin' me
And we just gon' be enemies
I know you can't believe
I could just leave it wrong
and you can't make it right
I'm gon' take off tonight
In to the night...

In the night I hear 'em talk,
The coldest story ever told,
Somewhere far along this road
He lost his soul
To a woman so heartless...
How could you be so heartless... oh
How could you be so heartless?

How could you be so heartless?

http://www.elyricsworld.com/heartless_lyrics_kanye_west_(new_song).html
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