808s & Heartbreak by Kanye West

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

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4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

As always, Chris and Travis are excited to embark upon yet another Kanye album. But there's a heavy sense of dread that hangs over Season 6, because going line by line through 808s & Heartbreak is no easy task. Pain, loss, heartache, loneliness...none of it can be avoided, and it's going to take 14 episodes to get through it all. In this initial episode, we overview the album narrative and what to expect from our season-long breakdown. If you'd like to support the show (and hear this episode ad-free), then join our Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/KanyePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody want to know what I would do if I didn't win.
0:07.0	I guess we'll never know. I don't get enough up here. Jesus just rose again.
0:27.5	Listen to the kids.
0:33.5	Welcome to watching the throne.
0:36.2	A lyrical analysis of Kanye West.
0:41.3	Dun, dun, dun, done, done.
0:42.6	My name's Chris Lambert.
0:45.0	We need long, empty pauses throughout this season that will just fill with, like, drum beats.
0:51.4	My name is Travis Bean, and if you haven't already caught on yet,
0:55.8	we're talking about 808s and heartbreak for the next foreseeable future, what, like 14 episodes?
1:02.8	Yeah, something like that. Nice and solid. Yeah, we have the intro episode, 12 songs, and then the
1:08.0	outro episodes. Yeah, and then like a 15th episode where we're just crying.
1:12.6	Yeah, because it is an emotional album that we've had, what, 13 years with to build memories.
1:20.1	Wow.
1:21.0	I didn't know you were going to drop that on me.
1:23.3	It's been 13 years since this album came out.
1:26.0	Holy shit.
1:27.2	Yeah, that's a little wild, isn't it?
1:29.3	It's wild because, like, I was in it back when it came out. Like, I remember Heartless playing
1:34.2	on the radio. This is like right when I started listening to Kanye. So it's been 13 years. Okay,
1:41.5	I might need a second for this. A little brief pause for an existential crisis.
1:46.7	No big deal. Happens on most podcasts.
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