Donda: Reflections and Song Rankings

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

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4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Donda released just over three months ago. And 27 episodes later...we're exhausted! In a good way :) That's right! It's the season finale of our Donda coverage. For this episode, we look back at our favorite moments and revelations from Kanye's latest masterpiece. And then we rank every single song on the album—which, as you can guess, took a while. Enjoy! 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 of it. Jesus just rose again.
0:27.6	Listen to the kids.
0:33.8	Welcome to watching the throne.
0:36.9	A lyrical analysis of Kanye West.
0:41.1	My name's Chris Lambert.
0:43.3	My name is Travis Bean and I am very excited today because, I mean, it's always a nice feeling to finish a season of Washington Throne.
0:53.0	You know, we work hard here over at the Washington Throne Studios. Chris and I are hard at work. All the interns are hard at
0:58.9	work. And we're trying to keep up with Kanye. But it is, today is also the start of the best
1:03.9	Kanye West sound tournament, death metric stream, 2021 version. And I don't know, I'm just all kinds of
1:08.3	hype today. Yeah. It's a, last year I said,
1:12.0	Behold the Majesty and Carnage that is the song tournament.
1:16.9	And it is a while,
1:18.8	while time.
1:19.4	And this is the craziest it has ever been.
1:22.3	You know,
1:22.7	the first iteration of the song tournament,
1:24.6	I think had something like 128 songs,
1:32.6	which is a good number of songs. But then it jumped up to 150 after Yeh and Kitsy Ghost and Jesus is King, and now it's all the way up to 187 songs.
1:37.3	So it's too many.
1:39.3	It's just too many songs, Scott.
1:41.3	Yeah.
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