Pure Souls by Kanye West

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

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4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 123 minutes

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The truth is only what you get away with, huh? Well, we've got a truth for you: Pure Souls is an awesome song. And not just because the track is a bop—it's because Pure Souls pays off on so many narrative and thematic threads on Donda. In this episode, we break down why Kanye, Roddy Ricch, and Shenseea's pure soul status is such a climactic moment on this album. 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.
0:33.8	Welcome to watching the throne.
0:36.5	A lyrical analysis of the one and only Kanye West.
0:41.8	Oh, yeah.
0:43.3	My name is Chris Lambert.
0:44.8	My name is Travis Bean, and before we even get into this episode, Chris, I got to ask you a question.
0:51.3	Would you, this is a two-part question, by the way, so don't answer too quickly after I
0:54.8	finished the first part. A, are you a pure soul? And B, do you think I'm a pure soul? Go. I would say
1:02.5	yes, and I would say yes. In the sense of this song, in the sense of not this song. Okay. No.
1:10.4	Okay. And no.
1:12.0	I'm not quite sure what you mean, but I think over the course of this episode, as we
1:16.6	unpack what exactly a Pearsall is, in relation to Connie and just like the world in general,
1:22.6	I think I'll have a better grasp on what you mean.
1:25.1	Oh, yeah.
1:25.9	So you're saying that we set up a hook to get people interested in where we're going with this
1:31.0	analysis.
1:32.2	Yeah.
1:32.7	Oh, God.
1:33.3	This would be the first time in Washington history that anyone's hooked by one of these
1:36.8	episodes in the beginning.
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