Jail by Kanye West

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

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4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Guess who's explaining Jail tonight? We are! Moving on from Donda Chant into the first official song on Donda, we find Kanye and JAY-Z trapped in a symbolic jail they must work their way out of. In this episode, we discuss what that jail means for both Kanye and Jay, who have both suffered from rocky marriages, and how that lays the foundation for the album narrative moving forward. 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 it. Jesus just rose again.
0:25.6	Listen to the kids.
0:33.6	Welcome watching the throne.
0:35.6	A lyrical analysis of Kanye West.
0:39.2	My name is Chris Lambert.
0:41.0	My name is Travis Bean and what do you think of my new voice?
0:44.1	I was going to test it out today.
0:48.0	Can you do it one more time?
0:50.1	A lyrical analysis of Kanye West.
0:53.5	It's very, you know, the voice that people used to use in movie trailers.
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	It has a degree of that.
1:02.0	In a world.
1:03.3	Yeah.
1:04.3	I was going for a part that, I'm part like, you know, a hard dude in prison, like a guy like you don't want to
1:12.0	fuck with. Okay, well, you might still, I think you need some more time cultivating
1:20.8	the appropriate edge to your tone. I probably also shouldn't be wearing a yellow shirt with the
1:26.8	Fast and Fur furious cars on the
1:28.3	front. No. I mean, if that's the shirt that you're wearing, you just need to be walking around
1:35.0	saying family all the time. Can you say family real fast? Family. I'm trying to do the Ben Diesel
1:40.0	accent. Nothing's more important than family.
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