S8E9 - Guilt Trip by Kanye West
Dissect
Cole Cuchna
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🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Many legendary musicians were born between May 21st and June 21st, making them Gemini's. |
| 0:06.0 | Artists like Bob Dylan, Kendrick Lamar, Tupac, Biggie, Paul McCartney, Miles Davis, |
| 0:11.8 | Lauren Hill, and of course, |
| 0:13.7 | Kagnay West. |
| 0:14.8 | Dance, don't give Kagnay a chance, |
| 0:17.6 | because I'm a Gemini I with 2002 rise. |
| 0:20.3 | Y'all talking business. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm peeping the thighs. Here on his early 2003 mixtape I'm good |
| 0:25.8 | Conney cites his astrological sign rapping don't give conny a chance because I'm a |
| 0:30.7 | Gemini with two sides and two rides. |
| 0:33.0 | That two sides line is actually a reference to Castor and Pollack, |
| 0:37.0 | the mythological twin half-brothers who are the symbol for the Gemini sign. |
| 0:41.0 | There are two halves to a Gemini, just as there are two conflicting |
| 0:45.2 | halves to Kaunay West, the emotional, ambitious man who desperately wants to change the world, |
| 0:50.7 | and the indulgent egotistical man who can't resist the 500 and out-of-control celebrity lifestyle. |
| 0:57.0 | From that early mixtape in 2003 through Jesus in 2013, |
| 1:01.7 | Kani has addressed these warring parts of himself that so often result in behavior that leaves |
| 1:06.2 | his personal and public life and chaos. |
| 1:09.0 | And in terms of the story arc on Jesus, this ongoing internal conflict really comes to a head on the song Gilt Trip |
| 1:15.2 | where Jesus will be forced to finally confront who he was, who he's become, and who he |
| 1:20.4 | wants to be. From Spotify, I'm Cole Kushna, and this is Dissect. |
| 1:27.0 | Long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes. |
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