Kanye West – Love Lockdown

by Chad Jordan, September 10, 2008

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Anticipation has been building for Kanye’s upcoming album 808’s and Heartbreak since he performed his first single “Love Lockdown” live at the VMA’s early this week. The response for the single has gone from confusion to complete adulation. Whatever you think about the song, you have to at least give him props for moving in a new direction and yet again reinventing himself. “Love Lockdown” is a momentum building, slightly electronic fueled, auto tune song that is a bit darker and edgier then we usually get from Kanye. I for one am intrigued by his new direction and if the rest of his new album is like this I’m excited to see what he has in store. Download the newly leaked CD quality version of Love Lockdown over at Hypetrak.

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  1. Posted by: Kanye West is Entrancing — Pulpconnection on January 3, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    [...] is simply entrancing. Checkout Swagga Like Us, a collabo with Jay-Z and T.I. and the leaked single Love Lockdown from the forthcoming 808’s and Heartbreak [...]

  2. Posted by: MZEE.com Blog » Blog Archive » Kanye West - Love Lockdown on September 11, 2008 at 2:52 am

    [...] Kanye geht back in the 80ies und hat bei dem VMA anfang der Woche seine neue Single “Love Lockdown” live vorgestellt. Die Meinungen waren sehr gespalten, von Begeisterung bis Ablehnung wurde alles geboten. Jetzt k

12 Responses

  1. Posted by: John on September 13, 2008 at 12:04 am

    so sick of all this reverb bullshit

  2. Posted by: Monumental on September 11, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    This song is weeak. 4 chord progression, futuristic take on old blues. John Lee Hooker did it better, and without the euro-fag beats. Sorry Kanye, not feeling this one despite your tremendous talent.

  3. Posted by: np2fast on September 11, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    WTF; Kanye thinks hes John Legend now?

  4. Posted by: reez on September 11, 2008 at 4:45 am

    unlike most songs the live version is a lot better. enjoy http://www.thegluttony.com/2008/09/kanye-west-love-lockdown/

  5. Posted by: dan on September 11, 2008 at 4:39 am

    this image of the heart kinda gives me that “Joker” feel to it, from the recent Batman Ads. I get that deep portrayal of emotion from the (looks like) deflated balloon shaped heart.

  6. Posted by: Mia**** on September 11, 2008 at 3:53 am

    kanya thank you for this exclusive track im already addicited to this beat and the words this track is sick even if you cant sing well we still got the point hope the new album compliments this sound….

  7. Posted by: Ryan on September 11, 2008 at 12:26 am

    Thank you Hypebeast. I was thinking after seeing the performance that maybe Daft Punk is somehow involved in the production of this song and maybe the next album. But this is purely speculation.

  8. Posted by: ... on September 10, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    Fuck, this was the exclusive track Kanye was performing at the Nike+ Human Race concert in Los Angeles. He stopped right in the fucking middle of it because the band messed up. I’m glad I finally got a chance to hear it, it sounded better live, probably because he didn’t have the auto-pitch correction shit while he was singing.

    It’s alright, he just doesn’t have the vocals to be singing like that, that’s why he’s a rapper.

  9. Posted by: Ion on September 10, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    Just listen to it a few times, you’ll enjoy his new direction.

  10. Posted by: Jacob The Producer on September 10, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    Yea, I’m not blown away by the track, but excited about the possible new direction for Kanye, hip hop, and pop music in general. He’s really setting a tone and we’re going to see a shift in styles. Keep blazing the trail Kanye!

  11. Posted by: Gillette on September 10, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    Yah cd will be dope!

    add the song to your myspace..

  12. Posted by: E-MAN on September 10, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    cant wait for his new cd.