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.
2007 was one of a pivotal year for Kanye West in a myriad of ways.
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