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Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

This is an in-depth-yet-entertaining dive into the lyrics and narrative artistry of Kanye West's music. We go track by track through Ye's discography, revealing the narrative and poetic tech...

Episodes

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My StorYe: Ricky Starks

AEW wrestler Ricky Starks joins Chris today to talk about his love of Ye's music. If you'd like to support the show (and hear this episode a...

35:25Nov 22, 2022

Power by Ye | Part 2

Part 2 of this episode concludes our line-by-line analysis of Power by Ye. If you'd like to support the show (and hear this episode ad-free)...

72:59Nov 15, 2022

Power by Ye | Part 1

If you know Chris and Travis, then you know there's no way they're getting through a masterpiece like Power in just one episode. If you'd li...

84:26Nov 8, 2022

Gorgeous by Ye

Ain't no question if we want it—the world needs this lyrical breakdown of Gorgeous. And being a song the entire Ye community adores, Chris a...

139:39Nov 1, 2022

Dark Fantasy by Ye

It's time to get higher—much, much higher. High into the clouds where we dissect the music of Ye. And in this particular cloud, we pick apar...

130:18Oct 25, 2022

Adam Pally Goes DEFCON

Adam Pally has been a fan of Ye since the beginning. But...well. Ye's recent behavior has changed everything. In this episode, he sits down...

66:37Oct 21, 2022

Season 8: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Ye

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...

105:00Oct 18, 2022

We Should Talk About Ye...

Next week we begin our new season on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. But before we start, we need to have a discussion about Kanye's rece...

35:53Oct 11, 2022

Reactions to True Love and Daylight

Annnnnnd WE'RE BACK!!! And we're ready to discuss two new songs—one belongs to Kanye, and the other features Kanye. The first is True Love,...

73:15Jun 1, 2022

Every Movie Reference Made By Kanye West

Shout out to YellowKing for putting together this huge list of every movie reference Ye has ever made in his music. There are a lot of them....

42:51Apr 1, 2022

Hip Hop vs The Grammys | Could Kanye's canceled performance lead to revolution?

The Grammys cancelled a performance by Kanye West at the 2022 award show. And it's not sitting well with everyone. J Prince wrote a long Twi...

62:59Mar 29, 2022

The 10 Most Over-Hated Kanye West Songs

Why do you hate this Kanye song, again? In this video, Travis goes through a list of ten over-hated Kanye songs and repeatedly asks that que...

34:05Mar 18, 2022

Pete Davidson texts Kanye West: A Breakdown

Pete Davidson had Dave Sirus post to instagram a text message conversation between Pete and Kanye. And it is outrageous. Pete goes from stan...

46:01Mar 14, 2022

The EAZY video explained | Kanye West, The Game

People may not know that Chris is primarily a film critic. So here he flexes some of his film critic muscles in an analysis of the EAZY musi...

28:21Mar 10, 2022

City of Gods by Fivio, Kanye West, Alicia Keys

Better late than never! Today we discuss the incredible, deeply layered collaboration between Fivio, Kanye West, and Alicia Keys: City of Go...

44:35Mar 7, 2022

Jeen-Yuhs Part 3: First Reactions

Part 1 of Jeen-Yuhs was securing the record deal. Part 2 was actually getting the record done. And Part 3 was...well. Everything else. And w...

67:38Mar 3, 2022

An interview with Consequence | The making of Slow Jamz | Working with Kanye | A Tribe Called Quest

A hitmaker across four decades, as a solo artist, featured artist, writer, and advisor, Consequence has had a legendary career. On this epis...

53:50Mar 1, 2022

DONDA 2 | 2/25 UPDATE: FIRST REACTIONS

OK. So we all heard/saw the Donda 2 show in Miami. But now...we've got finished tracks!!! Sixteen tracks, in fact, were uploaded to the Stem...

65:58Feb 25, 2022

Jeen-Yuhs Part 2: First Reactions

Part 1 of Jeen-Yuhs detailed Kanye West's drive to get his own record deal. Turns out: that was just half the battle. In Part 2, Ye goes thr...

45:19Feb 24, 2022

DONDA 2 IN MIAMI LIVE SHOW REACTION | KANYE WEST

We just heard Donda 2!!!! Sort of? Kind of? So...now what? It's a waiting game with Kanye. But until then, we're going to talk about our rea...

62:01Feb 23, 2022