No Child Left Behind by Kanye West

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

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4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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After 22 long, grueling, enlightening song discussions...we've finally reached the end! Today we're breaking down the final song on Donda's main narrative: No Child Left Behind. We discuss how Kanye and Vory put a cap on the album's thematic threads with this spare, direct, uplifting experience. 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.
0:27.6	Listen to the kids.
0:33.6	Welcome to watching the throne.
0:36.6	A lyrical analysis of Kanye West.
0:42.3	My name is Chris Lambert.
0:44.3	My name is Travis Bean, and today is a beautiful, glorious, happy, happy day.
0:50.4	Chris, you know why, right?
0:53.2	It's because we have finally reached the last song on the main track listing of Donda.
1:01.4	Is that it?
1:01.9	Oh, well, that, I mean, that's also awesome.
1:04.9	I mean, personally, I'm happy because I'm going to be going to Coltstone Creamery tonight.
1:10.5	We've made plans. So I got a little date with my wife. So I'm really excited about'm going to be going to Coldstone Creamery tonight. We've made plans.
1:11.4	So I got a little date with my wife.
1:13.4	So I'm really excited about it.
1:14.4	But actually, yeah, that's probably bigger news.
1:17.6	What you just said.
1:18.6	I mean, that will be exciting.
1:20.7	Coldstone creamery is great.
1:21.9	Do you have like the set ice cream that you get every time?
1:24.5	Like, you know going in, which you're going to grab. Yeah, I just tell them to combine everything. That's like my special. That seems like an exaggeration. You got a little
1:35.6	waffle cone, a little Captain Crunch, including the Crunchberries. Basically, I throw all the
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