Bad News by Kanye West

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

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4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Bad News. That's a song where a woman cheats on Kanye. Right? Or...wait. No. That can't be right. BECAUSE KANYE HIMSELF said the song was from a female's perspective. So how do we read and understand this song??? Luckily, Chris and Travis are here to help. We break down the track line by line and do some research on the sample in order to break this one wide open. If you'd like to support the show (and hear this episode ad-free), then join our Patreon community. 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 of it. Jesus just rose again.
0:25.6	Listen to the kids.
0:33.8	Welcome to watching the throne.
0:36.0	A lyrical analysis of Kanye West.
0:38.8	My name is Chris Lambert.
0:40.8	My name is Travis Bean.
0:42.8	Damn, Chris, I gotta say, I'm feeling this song today.
0:46.5	Yeah, you are.
0:47.5	So you're telling me you have good news for me.
0:51.0	No, the opposite, actually.
0:53.0	We thought we were getting a new Kanye verse with this came out
0:56.1	the day television dropped from pop smoke and what we got were 22 words from Kanye.
1:02.9	Yeah, that is some bad news. I haven't recovered yet. No, it was pretty, it was pretty shocking because you like, you start listening to it
1:13.8	right at like midnight when the song drops are 11 for us central time people.
1:19.0	Right.
1:19.6	And you're just like, oh, this is going to be it.
1:21.6	Like Kanye verse.
1:22.5	And then it's like 15 seconds of not even like 15. Is it just like 10 seconds of like some singular words and then
1:31.7	it's over I know he's a sea lion man I tell you what which if that is a confusing thing to hear
1:40.0	someone say it's actually a reference that we will get into in just a few minutes.
1:45.5	Yeah, because I mentioned, I think this could be one of those very episodes where we spend more
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