In order to effectively channel his emotions, he abandoned rapping altogether, instead grabbing autotune - a contentious tool that had already been popularised in hip-hop by T-Pain and Lil Wayne - by both hands, and twisting it to create sublime but mechanised despair. Pile on a ended engagement with Alexis Phifer and swarming media scrutiny, and the result was a downward spiral for Yeezy. However, it was also the year in which his mother, Donda West, passed away. He dethroned 50 Cent to become the biggest rapper in the world with the release of his synthesized third album, Graduation. The blue period that inspired that tour also set the stage for "808s & Heartbreak." It features West using the Auto-Tune technology popularized by T-Pain to sing in a hollow, distant voice about loss and sorrow.2007 was one of a pivotal year for Kanye West in a myriad of ways. So I figured you know, 'I'll do a rap show if I can just be like Luke Skywalker every night.' And so I just wrote my own sci-fi and played in it." All I felt like was playing with 'Star Wars' (toys) and being Luke Skywalker.
"The last one was done because I didn't feel like doing a rap show, because of all I was going through in my life. "I get bored with stuff," West said in a recent interview. It came after West's mother Donda died in November 2007 and he had broken up with his fiancee, events that put him in the mood for a less-than-celebratory hip-hop concert. West was alone on a colorful, futuristic tilted stage for nearly the entire performance of his "Glow" tour last year. The producer-turned-rapper-turned-singer has consulted with many of the same people who helped inspire staging for his last set of shows, the "Glow in the Dark Tour." They include filmmaker Spike Jonze, who directed West's upcoming "See You In My Nightmares" video, and The Jim Henson Company.
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