Somehow, the Chicago artist’s most experimental and idiosyncratic work became his most seminal. Kanye West’s fourth studio album raised an entire generation: wide-eyed child actors, hardened Atlanta drug dealers, elusive bedroom producers. Its influence never really ceased reverberating, and its imprint still appears with some frequency across hip-hop (and pop music writ large). Ten years after its release, 808s & Heartbreak is an absolute. “It flowed the most effortlessly because we basically did it in three weeks.” 808s & Heartbreak was their first collaboration, and likely the most memorable. “It was probably the easiest Kanye West record that ever got made,” he said. The standard deviation for this album is 18.7.The producer and songwriter Jeff Bhasker has worked on four albums with Kanye West. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.0/100, a mean average of 73.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.1/100. This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on. (*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings) The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation). However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. Rating metrics: Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. You can include this album in your own chart from the My Charts page! 808s & Heartbreak collection Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. Latest 20 charts that this album appears in: Sort ranks

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