Season 7: Donda by Kanye West

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

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4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Pop the champagne, because we just got a new Kanye album...which also means it's time for another season of Watching the Throne! Season 7 will be entirely dedicated to what we already consider to be Kanye's magnum opus: Donda. Throughout the season, we are going to run through every single line on every single song and piece together the themes and narratives at hand. In this initial episode, we hypothesize what they think the album is doing—all before we rank every single song on Donda. 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.
0:25.6	Listen to the kids.
0:34.0	Welcome watching the throne.
0:35.8	A lyrical analysis of Connie West.
0:38.9	My name's Chris Lambert.
0:40.6	My name is Travis Bean and, oh gosh, I am so glad I stretched this morning because I am going to be, I need to be fully limber for this upcoming season of Washington to Throne.
0:54.6	Yeah, is this our biggest undertaking yet?
0:59.1	I think so. I mean, A, 23 tracks, 27, if you count the bonus ons.
1:07.7	It's longer than any Connie album yet. I believe Kyle Dropout was the longest at like an hour, 15 minutes or something.
1:15.6	This comes in at like 85ish minutes.
1:18.6	Again, if we're not counting the bonus songs, if we count the bonus songs, then it's like a full feature length movie.
1:24.9	And it's the densest Connie album ever. Like's the most lyrics we'll have to read through,
1:31.9	like the most features that I've ever been on an album, the most ideas being expressed at once.
1:36.7	Chris, are you sure you want to do this?
1:39.4	You know, our six years of doing this podcast has been in preparation for this season on Donna.
1:46.9	That's how I feel about it.
1:48.4	Yeah, you're totally right.
1:50.0	That's how I feel about it.
1:53.9	He's just like, all right, I'm going to get these guys real good.
1:56.6	I'm just going to guide them along until I finally drop the magnum opus on them.
2:00.7	And let's see how they do.
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