City of Gods by Fivio, Kanye West, Alicia Keys

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

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4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Better late than never! Today we discuss the incredible, deeply layered collaboration between Fivio, Kanye West, and Alicia Keys: City of Gods. We cover Fivio and Kanye's verses and how they balance each other, the deeper sonic intentions of the song, and the optimistic yearning of Alicia Keys's anthemic chorus. If you'd like to support the show and hear this episode ad-free, then join our Patreon community. You can also watch this podcast in video form over on our YouTube channel. 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.
0:34.0	Welcome to watching the throne.
0:36.5	A lyrical analysis of Kanye West and Favio and Alicia Keys and
0:41.5	Playboy Cardi. My name's Chris Lambert. And my name's Travis Bean and what do you think? Is that a
0:47.3	new potential intro we can do every time? I think it flows really well. I say go for it.
0:53.5	It really limits the songs we can talk about.
0:57.0	But it's like you said, it's a great intro.
1:00.0	Like you kind of have to run with it.
1:02.0	You know, it shows that we're not just talking about yay 24-7, which sometimes we get accused of, you know.
1:08.0	But we're talking about yay, Fabio, Alicia Keys, Playboy, Cardi, C, we're the verse.
1:14.3	It'll be nice to not only Dick Ride for Kanye, but for three other people as well.
1:22.5	That's for all the Twitter users out there who knows what that's about.
1:26.1	Yeah.
1:29.1	Oh, God, I don't even want to, I don't even want to go into that topic, actually.
1:32.1	I'm sad.
1:32.7	I brought it up.
1:33.8	Yeah, that's some inside baseball.
1:37.2	Okay.
1:38.0	No, but we're talking about City of Gods.
1:40.5	Yeah, which a little late.
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