Heartless is the third track and the second single released from the fourth studio album 808s & Heartbreak by American hip-hop recording artist, Kanye West. The single was released on November 5, 2008 and debuted at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 until eventually peaking at #2 until it finally reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks and U.S. Hot 100 Airplay chart.
Music Video
The video is set in rotoscoped animation in which actual people are filmed but their every move is drawn over. The video follows West wandering through a city at night and then takes place in his actual apartment den where The Jetsons portraits are located, while various women is seen throughout the video as well.
Lyrics
<poem> [Chorus (Acapella):] 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 heartless [echoes 3X] How could you be so heartless [echoes 3X] Oh, how could you be so heartless?
[Verse 1] How could you be so cold as the winter wind when it breeze yo Just remember that you talking to me though You need to watch the way you talking to me yo I mean after all the things that we been through I mean after all the things we got into Ayo, I know there are some things that you ain't told me Ayo, I did some things but that's the old me And now you wanna get me back and you gonna show me So you walk around like you don't know me You got a new friend, well I got homies But in the end it's still so lonely
[Chorus]
[Verse 2] How could you be so Dr. Evil? You bringing out a side of me that I don't know I decided we weren't gonna speak so Why we up 3 A.M. on the phone? Why would she be so mad at me for? Homie I don't know she's hot and cold I won't stop wont mess my groove up Cause I already know how this thing go You run and tell your friends that you're leaving me They say that they don't see what you see in me You wait a couple months then you gonna see You'll never find nobody better than me
[Chorus]
[Verse 3] Talking talking talking talk Baby lets just knock it off They don't know what we been through They don't know about me and you So why I got something new to see? And you just gonna keep hating me And we just gonna be enemies I know you can't believe I could just leave it wrong And you can't make it right I'm gonna take off tonight (Into the night)
[Chorus]