Barry Bonds by Kanye West

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

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4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 101 minutes

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This is what you all been waiting for, ain't it? Well here's another episode...Barry Bonds! That's right. Today, Chris and Travis have the honor of discussing one of Kanye West's most hated songs—and, of course, they're here to tell you why it's actually an awesome track. They go through every line to show you just how clever Kanye's wordplay is and how the song fits into the Graduation narrative. If you'd like to hear the show ad-free, then support us over on Patreon: 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 of it. Jesus just rose again.
0:27.5	Listen to the kids.
0:33.7	Welcome to watching the throne.
0:36.5	A lyrical analysis of Kanye West.
0:40.3	Oh, here we go.
0:42.1	My name's Chris Lambert.
0:43.6	My name is Travis Bean, and you know what?
0:45.6	I don't even have any joke I want to lead into the show today.
0:48.7	I'm just flat out excited to talk about this song.
0:52.5	You know, I think it was my least excited I was to talk about a song when we went through
1:00.3	this album the first time.
1:02.3	And I got to say this time around, it's probably still the one that I'm least excited to talk about.
1:10.2	Really? No, no, Big Brother. Big Brother is. Okay. You don least excited to talk about. You know, no, no, big brother. Big brother is.
1:12.6	Okay.
1:13.6	You don't want to talk about Jay?
1:15.6	I do.
1:17.6	It's just like there's so much less to dig into.
1:20.6	Yeah, right, right, right.
1:22.6	I'm excited because, man, I don't know, I'm like grinning right now.
1:29.1	I'm so excited.
1:30.0	I'm genuinely excited.
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