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Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

Say You Will by Kanye West (feat. Cole Cuchna)

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

Music

4.8692 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Is it possible to spend 102 minutes talking about a song that barely has any lyrics? It is when Cole Cuchna shows up. The host of the Dissect podcast joins Chris and Travis to talk about one of Kanye West's most polarizing tracks ever: Say You Will. Kanye shocked the world when he opened 808s & Heartbreak with this spare, minimalist art-pop tune—and we love him for it. In this episode, Chris and Travis deconstruct the hypnotic lyrics of Say You Will while Cole breaks down the song's haunting production. If you'd like to support the show (and hear this episode ad-free), then join our Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/KanyePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Listen up.

0:01.0

Huh? That means you.

0:02.0

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0:21.5

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0:26.1

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0:27.8

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0:28.8

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0:29.9

Everybody want to know what I would do if I didn't win.

0:37.1

I guess we'll never know us just rose again Welcome to watching the throne. A lyrical analysis of Kanye West.

1:10.4

Yeah, my name's Chris Lambert. My name's Travis Bean and analysis of Kanye West. Yeah.

1:11.3

My name's Chris Lambert.

1:13.4

My name's Travis Bean and Chris, I don't know if I can do this.

1:18.3

Travis, you can't do this on me now.

1:21.5

I just, I'm sorry, but we, I feel like we're going to embarrass ourselves.

1:26.1

We're a lyrical analysis of County West, and there are like eight lines in the song.

1:32.7

This is a joke that we're going to try to stretch this out in the two hours.

1:36.8

How could we possibly do this?

1:39.1

I know, and this is such, I mean, I get it.

1:42.1

There's not a lot of lyrics.

1:43.4

There's a ton of production value, and we're just not production dies, you know?

1:49.0

I think maybe we should just end the show because this is a joke.

1:53.3

But throw in the towel, throw in the towel, you know, I got to say, I think we have a lifeline here.

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