Season 8: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Ye

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

Music

4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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In a moment where Ye is in the middle of about 15 different controversies...we just wanna focus on the music. So that's what we're going to do with Season 8 of Watching the Throne, which will be entirely dedicated to Kanye's masterpiece My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. In this first episode, we overview the album and what we expect to learn on this journey. Also, we rank every song on the album. If you'd like to support the show (and hear this episode ad-free), then join our Patreon community. 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.
0:29.6	Listen to the kids.
0:33.6	Welcome to Watching the Throne.
0:35.6	A lyrical analysis of Kanye West.
0:40.1	My name's Chris Lambert.
0:42.1	And my name is Travis Bean and...
0:46.1	Oh, God.
0:48.2	Sorry. Sorry, Chris.
0:50.7	What's up, Travis? What's going on?
0:52.3	Does this ever happen to you?
0:53.3	I feel like I'm having deja vu right now.
0:57.1	I could have sworn like one year ago in the regresses of my mind.
1:02.1	We did this already, didn't we?
1:05.6	We, uh, your mind's not playing tricks on you.
1:08.4	We did do this already.
1:10.0	Okay.
1:10.8	In my dreams, right? That's how deja vu works. Uh, certainly. your mind's not playing tricks on you. We did do this already. Okay.
1:11.7	In my dreams, right?
1:12.8	That's how deja vu works.
1:14.7	Certainly.
1:15.5	Yes.
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