See You In My Nightmares by Kanye West

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

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4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Brrrr. It's getting cold in here! And dark. And...scary. And that's probably because we're ready to discuss one of the songs that many Kanye fans seem to hate: See You In My Nightmares. Well, Chris and Travis hope that will change after today. In this lyrical breakdown, we show how the nightmarish landscape of the production, how Lil Wayne's sinister verse, how the evolving narrative of 808s & Heartbreak all make See You In My Nightmares one of the most realized songs of Kanye's career. 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.
0:27.5	Listen to the kids.
0:33.8	Welcome to watching the throne.
0:35.9	A lyrical analysis of Kanye West.
0:40.1	My name's Chris Lambert.
0:42.1	And my name is Travis Bean and...
0:44.5	It's got a shiver down my spine thinking about this song.
0:49.7	Oh, yeah, it's got you a little spooked.
0:52.8	Yeah, I'm just like feeling cold and shivery and jittery and I don't like it.
0:59.8	You know, that's funny because it has you feeling jittery, but I'm feeling cold too,
1:05.2	but I'm feeling cold in the way to where, you know, I could go walking into a room.
1:10.6	And I know everybody's going to stare at me
1:12.8	because I'm so much cooler than them and I don't give a fuck.
1:17.6	Yeah, I think that's what I'm scared of.
1:22.2	Yeah.
1:23.8	You're just like this guy that's floating around in my ether, you know beckoning me and trying to push me into this lifestyle I really don't want to be a part of that's just what I do you know that's what I'm in I want to do it all right cool so why don't we just start this podcast? All right. Let's be cold together on Washington Throne.
1:46.7	All right.
1:48.3	A lyrical analysis of County West.
1:51.1	My name's Chris Lambert. Did we do that already?
1:54.1	Sure, but why not do it again? This is a new space now.
1:57.8	Yeah, okay. What do we talk about today?
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