God Breathed by Kanye West

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

Music

4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 124 minutes

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So you think God Breathed is a long, pointless, and boring song? Well, do we have a treat for you! In this extra-long episode, we shed light on what is actually a deeply layered and sonically complex song that's incredibly important in setting up the Donda narrative. Kanye West would be proud of this episode. 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.
0:32.8	Welcome to watching the throne.
0:34.9	A lyrical analysis of Kanye West. You had me in suspense there.
0:40.9	My name's Chris Lambert. And my name is Travis Bean and Chris, I can't take it anymore.
0:47.2	What's what's on your mind? What's troubling you son? I can't handle this. You know,
0:50.5	we go on YouTube. We're fearless. We give our Donda rankings and everyone just wants to shit on us and tell us we're wrong.
0:57.8	You know what they do?
0:59.2	We both put God-breatved up super high on our list.
1:02.8	And they come down to us and say, you nerds.
1:06.0	You fucking nerds.
1:07.0	You love God-Reed.
1:07.7	You like that weird, arty bullshit.
1:10.2	You know what?
1:10.5	We do. We like that weird arty bullshit you know what we do we like the weird
1:12.6	arty uh musical long stretches of nothing happening this is our kind of music i think that's the
1:22.0	most aggressive opening you have ever had It comes from a place of love.
1:28.4	Yeah, of course, of course, of course.
1:30.0	Much like this song, you know, much like this song.
1:33.1	But yeah, yeah, people weren't necessarily overjoyed by our having God breeds so high in our
1:39.3	rankings.
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