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• Perhaps the best comparison for 808s & Heartbreak is when Bob Dylan went electric in 1965. Like Dylan, Kanye didnt need the fame or credibility: His third (and third multiplatinum) album, 2007s Graduation, had come out only a year earlier, and hed already established himself as the kind of visionary who could steer the conversation while hovering somewhere above it. Like Dylan, the new direction made him a genius to some and a traitor to othersa split that highlighted both the divisiveness of his art and the conservative streak in a scene where the imperative to keep it real can be as stifling as it is comforting. You dont need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, Dylan sanga line, incidentally, from the first electric song of his that most people would have heard (Subterranean Homesi