In the time leading up to the album’s November release, West gave the impression of a man running on fumes, flooring the pedal through the most nightmarish moment in his life. Still reeling from the death of his mother as well as a breakup with his fiancée, he explained how “ 808s came from suffering multitude losses at the same time-it’s like losing an arm and a leg and having to find a way to keep walking through it.” When a reporter asked what he planned to see during his visit to New Zealand, he replied dryly: “The back of my eyelids." Sporting Tom Ford shades so dark that they seemed to obscure half his face, he waded through a 40-minute press conference in seeming slow-motion. He was in New Zealand to promote-or perhaps explain- 808s & Heartbreak, the new album he recorded in an ungodly rush amidst his continent-hopping Glow in the Dark tour.
Kanye West arrived at Auckland’s Westin Hotel in December 2008 looking exhausted, at the end of every possible rope.
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