My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

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4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Ah, the magnum opus. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is, by and large, considered to be Kanye West's greatest work of art. And, yeah...its greatness is pretty hard to deny. But is there more to this album than meets the eye? On this season of Watching the Throne, we set out to find even more meaning and nuance to this story as Kanye plunges further into the lonely hellscape of celebrity. 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.
0:25.6	Listen to the kids.
0:33.6	Welcome to watching the throne.
0:35.6	A lyrical analysis of Khan, Yay, West.
0:41.0	My name's Chris Lambert.
0:42.3	My name is Travis Bean and Chris, I have a question for you.
0:45.3	What's that, Travis?
0:46.9	Can we get much higher?
0:50.6	You know, we are so high.
0:53.2	I'm high as well.
0:57.5	That's a good question. I don't know if we can there's one way to find out I don't mean like I've taken drugs or anything like I'm just high on life right now
1:02.3	oh yeah absolutely you know the wait for Donda has broken our shackles in terms of just emotional restraints and our euphoria is just on another level as we
1:16.2	have nothing left in our systems. We are just, we've been pushed to the absolute brink as far as
1:24.9	Kanye fans go and we're just at this weird point where we're like, well, the next season's going to be about My Beautiful Dark Swifted Fantasy.
1:33.3	And we could just wait to record that because Donda will be out.
1:36.5	We can talk about Donda, Dada, Dada, Dada.
1:40.3	Donda.
1:40.6	Dada's not out.
1:42.0	I don't know when these episodes are releasing.
1:44.3	Maybe we're going to release them before Donda comes out.
1:46.6	If Donda comes out this week, you're hearing these episodes in the future.
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