Genius Meanings
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Kanye West – Heartless
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“Heartless” was released as a promotional single 20 days before the official release of 808s and Heartbreak, and peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts while topping
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The Fray – Heartless
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While appearing on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, The Fray covered Kanye West’s “Heartless” from his 808s & Heartbreak album. The cover soon gained traction and radio play to the point
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Kanye West (Ft. Rick Ross) – Heartless (Remix)
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On November 28, 2008, this version of “Heartless” was published on Kanye West’s blog. This remix incorporates Rick Ross' experiences with his first love, and how she broke his
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The Weeknd – Heartless
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“Heartless” is the lead single to The Weeknd’s fourth studio album and his first solo single since 2018’s “Call Out My Name.”
The track’s release was first teased on November 25th
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Kanye West – Heartless / Pinocchio Story (Live from VH1 Storytellers)
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[Intro] / How could you be so? / [Chorus] / (In the night I hear them talk) / The coldest story ever told / (Somewhere far along this road) / He lost his soul / To a woman so
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Miles Away & Braev – Heartless
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“Heartless” is a collaboration between Vancouver based producer Miles Away and Montreal based vocalist braev. The song is a cover of Kanye West’s classic song “Heartless” from his
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Kanye West (Ft. Pusha T) – Runaway
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The piano, the echoing voice in the background, the distortion on his singing, the vocoder solo: every single element of this track is spine-tingling, hauntingly beautiful. Combine
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Drake – Pop Style
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“Pop Style” is a Jamaican term meaning “ballin’” or “showing off.” The term was famously used on Althea and Donna’s “Uptown Top Ranking”, a Reggae one hit wonder which reached
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The Enduring Influence of Kanye West’s ‘808s & Heartbreak’
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This week marks the 10 year anniversary of Kanye’s most ambitious album.
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Kanye West – RoboCop
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In the seventh track of 808s & Heartbreak, Kanye constantly uses references to the film series, RoboCop, to describe a girl’s distrust in him. He talks about her problems as a
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KIDZ BOP Kids – Heartless
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[Hook] / In the night I hear them talk the coldest story ever told / Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul to a girl so heartless / How could you be so heartless? Oh, how
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Kanye West (Ft. John Legend) – Blame Game
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This entire song can be taken two different ways: One, Kanye is talking about his relationship with fame (pretty easy to see metaphor-wise). Two, he’s talking about a specific girl
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Kanye West (Ft. Kid Cudi) – Welcome To Heartbreak
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In “Welcome to Heartbreak,” Kanye describes how, despite all the money and fame he has accumulated through his career, or rather because of them, he finds himself trapped and
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DVDA – Gay Fish
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[Intro] / Yo / Uh / Uh, c'mon / [Verse 1] / I've been so lonely girl, I've been so sad and down / Couldn't understand why haters joked around / I wanted to be free with other
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Kanye West – Love Lockdown
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The fifth song in the groundbreaking album and its lead single. A song that was a drastic change in Kanye’s music, it was a sneak peek into Kanye’s influential album. It debuted in
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Apple Music – Kanye West Essentials
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1. Kanye West- Nah Nah Nah / 2. Kanye West- All Falls Down (feat. Syleena Johnson) / 3. Kanye West- Power / 4. JAY-Z & Kanye West- Niggas in Paris / 5. Kanye West- Can't Tell Me
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¥$, Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign (Ft. Future) – Promotion
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Lyrics from Snippets / [Intro: Future & Future with Ty Dolla $ign] / She said she leavin' her boyfriend / She wanna meet me at a Ritz-Carlton / She lookin' pretty, she lookin
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Christine and the Queens – Paradis perdus (English version)
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Christine’s mix of French Singer-Song writer Christohpe’s “Les Paradis Perdus” and Kanye West’s “Heartless”
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Kanye West – On the 2009 VMAs (2)
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Courtesy of Gawker
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The Word Alive – Heartless
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The Word Alive covered “Heartless” originally by Kanye West for the compilation album Punk Goes Pop 3.
The Word Alive also covered Kanye’s “Mercy”.
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Kanye West (Ft. Bon Iver, JAY-Z, Nicki Minaj & Rick Ross) – Monster
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One of the most highlighted posse cuts of 2010, Kanye, Rick Ross, JAY-Z, and Nicki Minaj boast on how they’re a “Monster” on the mic. Fittingly, the song comes with a couple of
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Kanye West – Pinocchio Story
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On “Pinocchio Story,” Kanye takes a turn for the worse as he tears himself apart for his mistakes in this haunting song. He blames himself for his mother’s death and attacks his
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Kris Allen – Heartless (Studio Version)
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[Chorus] / In the night, I hear 'em talk, the coldest story ever told / Somewhere far along this road, he lost his soul / To a woman so heartless / How could you be so heartless
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¥$, Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign (Ft. Future) – Paid
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Lyrics from Snippet / [Intro: Ty Dolla $ign] / Get on up / I wanna get, ooh yeah / You gotta get on up now / Say it again, Dolla $ign / Get on up / You gotta get on up / You gotta
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Kanye West – Street Lights
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One of the most emotionally distressing tracks off an already depression-focused album is “Street Lights.”
Kanye iterates the repetitiveness of life and its petty affairs, and
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Genius Brasil Traduções – Kanye West - Heartless (Tradução em Português)
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[Refrão] / Na noite, eu ouço eles conversarem / A história mais fria já contada / Em algum lugar ao longo dessa estrada / Ele perdeu sua alma pra uma mulher tão sem coração / Como
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Kanye West – Coldest Winter
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“Coldest Winter”—an impassioned farewell to two important women in Kanye’s life—is his rendition of the 1983 song “Memories Fade” by Tears for Fears.
The first of the women is his
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Spotify – This Is Kanye West
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1. Heartless / 2. Bound 2 / 3. Flashing Lights / 4. Ni**as In Paris (with Jay-Z) / 5. True Love (with XXXTENTACION) / 6. Violent Crimes / 7. I Wonder / 8. FourFiveSeconds / 9. All
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Dermot Kennedy – Heartless
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[Chorus] / In the night, I hear 'em talk / Coldest story ever told / And somewhere far along this road / He lost his soul to a woman so heartless / Mmm, how could you be so
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Kris Allen – Heartless
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[Chorus] / 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
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Genius Deutsche Übersetzungen – Kanye West - Heartless (Deutsche Übersetzung)
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[Deutscher Songtext zu „Heartless“] / [Refrain] / In der Nacht hör' ich sie reden / Über die kälteste Geschichte, die jemals erzählt wurde / Irgendwo weit weg auf dieser Straße
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Kanye West (Ft. Mr. Hudson) – Paranoid
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In the closest thing that comes to normal rapped vocals from Ye on 808’s & Heartbreak, Yeezy is reflecting upon a past relationship and laments his frustrations to his past flame
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Kanye West – Want It All
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Kanye performed a short freestyle at the end of Heartless on Saturday May 16th while performing at Power 106’s POWERHOUSE event in L.A. The words have been labelled as the “I Want
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