808s & Heartbreak

with Kid Cudi · prod. Kanye West · Not Available

In a 2016 interview with Beats One, Kid Cudi revealed that his chorus on JAŸ-Z's "Already Home" was originally supposed to appear on a collaboration with Kanye.

with Jeff Bhasker · prod. Kanye West, Larry Gold, Plain Pat · Lossless · 2008

OG Filename: Cookin' V2.2 Ruff mix Early version with Jeff Bhasker replacing what would later be Kid Cudi's part, as well as synths replacing the piano. Missing the verse where Kanye actually says "Welcome to heartbreak". Leaked after a groupbuy.

prod. Kanye West · CD Quality · 2025

OG Filename: Live To Tell - Kanye West - Ruff. REF For Madonna Submission for a demo instrumental which samples "Live To Tell" by Madonna, it was sent to her in 2007 during the Hard Candy sessions. Unknown if Kanye or Madonna recorded anything. Made in October 2007, making it the first known song made after Graduation's release, but before Donda's death.

prod. Justice · Lossless · 2008

Fourth freestyle. Initially thought to be from Good Ass Job, later found to originate from 808s & Heartbreak era. Mostly mumble. Kanye references Adolf Love Everyone at one point. Has a hard electronic sound, stemming from the Justice production. Leaked after a successful Soakbuy. This and all previous versions were intended to have additional production from Jeff Bhasker and Plain Pat alongside the Justice produced beat, although those tracks are empty in the session.

with Pharrell Williams · prod. Pharrell Williams · CD Quality · 2025

Collab track between Kanye and Pharrell Williams, originating from the Child Rebel Soldier sessions, as confirmed by Kanye in a backstage video from the Glow In The Dark Tour posted by DJ Mike Love to Instagram January 26th, 2025, "I got a couple CRS joints though but [???]". Pharrell's verse originates from a freestyle on Rap City in 2006, and Kanye would perform his verse live at Hot 97 Summer Jam 2008, which is said by Designer to originate from an OG version of "Power" that has yet to leak. Original snippet from MusicMafia leaked in 2018, with the same snippet leaking tagless on December 2nd, 2024. Another snippet would be previewed in VC on Auger's stream July 24th, 2025 during an attempted groupbuy for the song, before a tagged full version would ultimately forceleak July 26th, 2025 with the untagged leaking within the hour.

prod. Plain Pat, No ID, Jeff Bhasker, Hass, Kyoko Hamler, Warren Trinidad Taylor, Kanye West, PHENOM · CD Quality · 2025

Version with a ~1:20 finished first verse and an open. Originally said to be from Graduation sessions, however it contains the lyric "I ain't tryna punch my sister like Christian Bale", which happened on July 20th, 2008. Performed by Ye as a freestyle during a performance of "All Falls Down" on August 10th, 2008 at the Baltimore Virgin Festival. Was eventually reworked and given to JYJ. Uses the "Alligator Boots" beat. Snippets leaked June 13th, 2024, May 20th, 2025, and December 17th, 2025.

with Soulja Boy · prod. Kanye West, Anthony Killhoffer · Not Available

Kanye, Amber Rose, and Soulja Boy were all in the studio together when this song was being made, with Soulja Boy having vocals that Kanye would later take off according to Soulja Boy. Information came to light after Soulja Boy was ranting about "Remote" on a September 2021 Instagram Live.

prod. Kanye West, Larry Gold · CD Quality · 2025

Version with both T-Pain and Kid Cudi vocals. Snippet leaked May 31st, 2024, with another leaking December 14, 2025.

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Diss track made about T-Pain, stated in a DJ Vlad interview. Apparently finished and lyrical, as T-Pain jokingly noted that he was confused why it wasn't put on the album. Was never bounced from the session.

with Rihanna · prod. Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker, Plain Pat · Not Available

Remix recorded in the Fall of 2008 with a feature from Rihanna. Intended to be released to US mainstream radio stations on January 27th, 2009 as the third single from 808s & Heartbreak.

with Kid Cudi · prod. Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker, Plain Pat · Lossless · 2024

OG Filename: Anyway 88 REF_05 Low-quality 88-Keys reference track. Just contains a short verse.

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88-Keys has said that there are "about 7-8 songs Kanye took off [The Death Of Adam]". It's unknown if any of these have Kanye involvement, but he executively produced the album.

with Jeezy, Mr Hudson, The WRLDFMS Tony Williams · prod. Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker · CD Quality · 2008

OG Filename: Amaing - Vlado Master 11/6b OG file of an early master for the released version. Also linked is the same file but found on Kanye's blog, with more metadata.

prod. Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker · Not Available

Consequence said he "wrote the chorus", in a 2019 interview, further confirmed by the fact he's credited for writing this song on the album's credits.

with Kid Cudi, Big Sean, Mr Hudson · prod. Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker, Plain Pat · Lossless · 2008

OG Filename: Anyway.1 RUFF ye vox & �Anyway.1 RUFF ye vox-mlAS_01-01 Early version with mumble Kanye vocals and no Mr Hudson on the chorus.

prod. Plain Pat, No ID, Jeff Bhasker, Hass, Kyoko Hamler, Warren Trinidad Taylor, Kanye West, PHENOM · CD Quality · 2024

Mumble version, used in the CLLLAPS song "The World Tonight" and the stem edit "Tounges". Has slightly different production from release. Snippet leaked June 13th, 2024.

with Kanye West · prod. Blac Elvis, Beyoncé, Harold Lilly · Not Available

Pedro Pool was in the session when Kanye recorded for the "Ego" (Remix). He described the recording process: "First, he stayed in the booth listening to the instrumental in a loop for about 15 minutes. So he started recording verses at random. He went back to the technician and asked the engineer to put the verses in the correct order. He listened a few times to what he had recorded, then went back to the booth and recorded the good version!"

with Mr Hudson · prod. Kanye West, WrighTrax · CD Quality · 2008

Unreleased Big Sean and Mr Hudson collab that was originally intended for the former's album Finally Famous. Production credits were confirmed in the ASCAP listing of the song. Was first performed live in December 2008 before being performed again in September 2009. Was leaked by 2DopeBoyz in February 2010 after it was sent to them. Mr Hudson's chorus is rumored to have been originally intended for his song "Learning To Live".

prod. Jeff Bhasker, Kanye West, No ID · Not Available

Initial finished version, later punched-in for the version below.

with Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Lupe Fiasco · prod. The Neptunes · Not Available

Version of the song with a cut feature from Lupe Fiasco. Claimed to exist in a thread of unreleased Lupe material, though the original source has been lost.

with Kid Cudi · prod. Kanye West · High Quality · 2025

Seemingly unreleased remix of "Grammy Family" with verses from Kid Cudi. Likely a remix and not a prior version as Kid Cudi had only begun working with Kanye during the sessions for 808s & Heartbreak. Snippet leaked January 2nd, 2025.

with T-Pain · prod. Kanye West, Larry Gold, Plain Pat · High Quality · 2024

Early version with chorus vocals from T-Pain. Snippet leaked May 31st, 2024.

with Child Rebel Soldier · prod. Kanye West, Pharrell Williams · Not Available

Solo Lupe and Pharrell version implied to exist by Lupe. According to him, he was unsure when exactly Kanye recorded his verse, stating that it may have been recorded closer to release than the others. Recorded shortly after the group recorded "Everybody Nose (All The Girls Standing In The Line For The Bathroom) - Remix".

with Lil Wayne, Kidd Kidd, Kanye West, Eminem · prod. Boi-1da · Low Quality

Leaked in 2008. Has a different vocal take from Drake, different verses from Drake and Lil Wayne, differences in the instrumental, and a verse from Kidd Kidd.

with Kanye West · prod. Boi-1da · Not Available

Rich Paul said that this song was originally gonna be a Drake and Kanye song.

with Child Rebel Soldier · prod. Lupe Fiasco · Not Available

OG Filename: ENGINE LIGHT CRS copy "Rough demo sketch" made by Lupe Fiasco. Was sent to Tyler, The Creator in May 2022.

with Kanye West, The WRLDFMS Tony Williams · prod. Fall Out Boy, Neal Avron · Lossless · 2008

OG Filename: Arms_Race_RMX_Kanye_Verse_2.12.08-M3NT_04-04 & ArmsRcRMXKnyVrs2.12.08M3NT_0404 Similar to the released version, but has an alternate mix.

with Connie Mitchell · prod. Kanye West, Eric Hudson, Larry Gold, No ID · Not Available · 2008

According to Kanye in a kanyeuniversecity.com post from April 11th, 2008, "I just recorded my first verse in the last six months two days ago at Bape‘s Studio in Japan. It felt good and I was inspired. I absolutely lost my mind (in a good way) on the new ‘Glow In The Dark’ tour. The constant hours of creating helped me to keep from losing my mind in a bad way." This is likely referring to the verse he would perform a week later as a freestyle during a 2008 BAPE Heads performance of "Flashing Lights". According to crave, there is a version of the song with the afformentioned freestyle verse and an open.

prod. Jeff Bhasker, Kanye West, No ID · Lossless · 2008

OG Filename: Frozen Winter.1 RUFF Early version with punch-ins where Kanye changes the "coldest" in "coldest winter" to "frozen", for some reason. Also has the line "So I hope she's also wide awake", later changed to "Her love is all that I can see". Leaked after a groupbuy.

with Kanye West · prod. Jeff Bhasker, Kanye West · Recording · 2008

Original version of "Big Screen" without the hook and pitched up "skit" vocals. Previewed in a vlog GLC released to YouTube on September 24th, 2008. Was intended for GLC's album Love, Life & Loyalty. Could have possibly been originally called "In The Pursuit", as "In The Persuit ADMIX1 MAIN" is seen in the metadata for the promotional CD release's "Uncut Version". Likely doesn't have Keezo Kane's production since he isn't listed as being in the studio session.

prod. Kanye West, No ID · High Quality · 2008

OG Filename: Hartless 1st and 2nd Verse RUFF Early version with very rough mixing, no 'Hey' sound effects on the second verse and has mumble on the third verse.

with Kid Cudi · prod. Kanye West · CD Quality · 2024

OG Filename: HATE IT EXP HOFFER Original version of of the song which would later be given to JAŸ-Z. The hook is the same as release but has a minute and 30 seconds of Cudi freestyling and some extra mumble Kanye vocals. Both vocals are added on very roughly and not mixed at all. Engineered by Anthony Kilhoffer.

with The WRLDFMS Tony Williams · prod. Kanye West, No ID · CD Quality · 2008

OG Filename: 1-01-heartless Unmastered version.

prod. Kanye West, ??? · Low Quality · 2008

Version with orchestral production and re-recorded studio vocals that seemingly never got released. Not to be confused with the 2008 Grammy live performance version. Leaked on HipHopDX.

prod. Kanye West · Not Available

According to Garfield, this beat was recorded over by Kanye. Likely a mumble freestyle, possibly a reference for JAŸ-Z.

with John Legend · prod. Kanye West · Recording · 2024

Mumble demo worked on during the 808s & Heartbreak sessions. Was described by Consequence as having "W mumble" and a John Legend feature. Small snippets of this fairly unknown track were played on Consequence's IG streams multiple times.

with Kanye West · prod. No ID · Not Available

According to No ID, this song had originally started out as the intro for JAŸ-Z's album The Blueprint 3, before he changed his mind and the record was revamped.

with Kid Cudi, The WRLDFMS Tony Williams, J. Cole · prod. No ID, Kanye West · Not Available

As referenced in an interview by Tony Williams, before he recorded, the song featured only Kid Cudi. Kid Cudi originally sang the hook. Tony also stated that the track was recorded in Hawaii sessions.

prod. Kanye West, Larry Gold, Plain Pat · Not Available

Noted by Kid Cudi that this song was originally made for Blueprint 3, but then was repurposed for 808s & Heartbreak after Kanye heard Cudi recording his hook. The hook was repurposed, but the original hook went "Cookin up in the kitchen, young boy had that vision had to get with it, (Ooh, ooh, ooh); Cookin up in the kitchen, young boy had that vision had to get with it, (Ooh, ooh, ooh)." Likely JAŸ-Z never recorded on it.

prod. Kanye West, No ID · Not Available

Mumble version recorded as a reference track for JAŸ-Z. Kanye ended up liking the song demo so much he took it for himself. Had the line "how could you be so fucking evil" but Kanye did not like the swearing, so Mr Hudson suggested the "Dr. Evil" line. Kanye brings DJ Semtex through the track's recording process, stated at 2:35 in the interview.

with Mavado · prod. Kanye West · Not Available

Young Guru revealed in a 2011 interview that this song was planned for The Blueprint 3 with a Mavado feature, but the track was scrapped because Jay didn't feel like it fit the album. Unknown if Kanye was on this version.

with Kid Cudi · prod. Kanye West · Not Available

In an interview, Wale talks about Kanye playing some unreleased songs at a party with JAŸ-Z. One of these was a song with a Kid Cudi hook that he said went "let the money fall from the sky" and had "insane horns". Later brought back during Watch The Throne sessions.

prod. Kanye West, No ID · Not Available

According to a 2011 Complex interview with No ID, Kanye gave JAŸ-Z ideas on how to approach the song. Could possibly be a mumble reference track, with Kanye rapping rough verse as an idea for JAŸ-Z.

with MGMT · prod. Kanye West, MGMT · Not Available

Original version of the beat made by Kanye and sent to MGMT.

with Kanye West, Lil Wayne · prod. Kanye West, Mike Caren, Plain Pat, Jeff Bhasker · Not Available

Jay and Wayne recorded and sent in their verses seperately. According to a Revolt article about the making of the track, Hov sent his verse in the "11th hour", meaning very late.

prod. Drumma Boy · Not Available

Solo version from before Kanye got on the track, "I called him and was like 'Yo, I got this record.' And he like, 'I really ain't been in the booth'." 10 minutes after this phone call, Kanye called Jeezy back rapping his verse on the phone.

prod. Boi-1da · Low Quality

Originally a Kardinal Offishall song with Rock City in early 2008.

with Drake · prod. Boi-1da · High Quality

Later version with Drake from early 2008. Has no verse from Drake and a very different sounding hook with different lines.

prod. Deezle, Kanye West · Not Available

According to Deezle, "[Lil Wayne] made up all the vocals on the spot, man. The whole song. It was recorded in about 30 minutes."

prod. Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker · High Quality · 2008

OG Filename: LoveLockdown_V2ADMix-Main_9-15-08 Very close to release ready, but metronome can still be heard. Unmastered.

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Seen on an early tracklist for 808s & Heartbreak. Very likely samples or interpolates "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers.

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Seen on an early tracklist for 808s & Heartbreak.

with Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Pusha T · prod. The Neptunes · CD Quality · 2008

Rough mix posted by Kanye to his blog the day before release, saying he would "give [y'all] the final final mix soon".

prod. Kanye West · Lossless · 2024

OG Filename: Hi Beat5 Name Ring RUFF Instrumental found in a beat copy of the album. "Loop 8" is the same version as this, just in a loop form, and it was made in July 14th, 2008. Meaning, this was most likely a 2008 Good Ass Job beat before being given to JAŸ-Z.

prod. Pharrell Williams · Not Available

Solo Pharrell version. Snippet was posted by Music Mafia, but it is currently lost. Is debated to have never existed.

prod. Kanye West, Larry Gold · Low Quality

Original version.

with Herbie Hancock · prod. Kanye West, A-Trak, Larry Gold, Anthony Kilhoffer, Anthony Killhoffer · Lossless · 2008

OG Filename: Robocop RUFF ye REF Mumble version. Has a section where Kanye interpolates "Technologic" by Daft Punk. Original snippet leaked June 7th, 2024.

with So UniQ · prod. Ryan Leslie · High Quality · 2008

Ryan Leslie song featuring So UniQ, leaked to MySpace and posted to So UniQ's Youtube channel August 20th, 2008. Later worked on during Watch The Throne sessions. Ryan Leslie was present during My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy sessions, recording for "All Of The Lights" and "Christian Dior Denim Flow", so it's likely Ryan showed him this song during that time.

prod. Kanye West, Larry Gold · Not Available

OG Filename: Say what you Will Ruff Ye Ref Mumble demo, but hook is the same. Was owned by a trusted source on a now broken computer.

prod. Kanye West, Larry Gold · High Quality

Has a shorter outro and is missing the transition into "Welcome To Heartbreak".