Keep My Spirit Alive by Kanye West

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

Music

4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Keep My Spirit Alive is a song that's absolutely chock-full of underlying meaning and introspection. The self-awareness of Westside Gunn's verse, Conway the Machine's determination to move on from a near-death experience, Kanye and his mother's ode to KRS-One—it's all there, and it's all beautiful. And in this episode, we break it all down. 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.
0:36.3	A lyrical analysis of the one and only Kanye West.
0:40.6	My name's Chris Lambert.
0:42.3	And my name is Travis Bean, and this song couldn't come at a better time, Chris,
0:47.1	because it's getting cold outside here in Chicago, probably not there in Austin.
0:51.7	And maybe cold for you, though.
0:53.0	I mean, what's the tip there?
0:55.2	It is currently 54 degrees and rainy as can be. Treves. Oh, rainy. No, no good. But 54, I would take
1:02.2	that. A run in a 54 degree weather. But on a cold day like this, I need to keep myself warm,
1:11.7	keep myself fresh. I need to keep myself warm, keep myself fresh.
1:14.2	I need to keep my spirit alive.
1:16.3	And I'm going to need your help to do that.
1:23.0	Yeah, as someone who grew up in Ohio, much like you growing up, I mean, you're a Midwest kid yourself.
1:24.0	Central Illinois child.
1:29.5	Yeah, it's very easy for the November, December, January, February period to murder your spirits.
1:30.5	Yeah.
1:31.5	So yeah.
1:32.5	It's doing a good job this year.
1:33.5	It is, I mean, you probably remember this, but I don't know what happens in the Midwest,
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