DONDA 2 | 2/25 UPDATE: FIRST REACTIONS

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

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4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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OK. So we all heard/saw the Donda 2 show in Miami. But now...we've got finished tracks!!! Sixteen tracks, in fact, were uploaded to the Stem Player website. So what do we think? In this episode, we run through every single song and give our first impressions. 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.
0:34.1	Welcome to watching the throne.
0:36.8	A lyrical analysis of Kanye West.
0:39.3	My name is Chris Lambert.
0:41.3	My name is Travis Bean and, oh, I'm excited today.
0:44.3	Well, usually we have like the episode one of any season is like the opening thoughts on the new Kanye album.
0:52.3	And this is kind of that, but not that because I guess the album, it hasn't come out yet.
0:57.7	So it's not that.
0:59.4	Yeah, right.
1:00.2	We have a CD quality version of essentially the Miami performance of Donda 2, but that's not
1:08.4	necessarily the final version of Donda 2, which, you know,
1:12.9	Miami was 16 tracks out of the 22 that it was supposed to be on the album.
1:18.9	So we're missing six tracks.
1:21.9	And then even then, the version that we most recently got doesn't have Mr. Miyagi.
1:27.0	And instead it has a song called Keep It Burning,
1:29.2	even though Keep It Burning has since been removed. So, chaos. Chaos. Yeah. Keep it burning. I never
1:36.9	even got to hear it. I mean, what the heck, Kanye? You can't do this to me. Wait, you did get to hear it?
1:41.5	No, I like the whole living, breathing album thing, but not if it means I'd never get to hear a song.
1:47.9	Oh, man.
1:48.6	I should just play it for you.
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