Best Yeezus Podcasts (2024)

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My StorYe: Ricky Starks 35:25

2y ago35:25

35:25

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 ad-free), then join our Patreon community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy New School Critics

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Power by Ye | Part 2 1:12:59

2y ago1:12:59

1:12:59

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), then join our Patreon community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy New School Critics

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Power by Ye | Part 1 1:24:26

2y ago1:24:26

1:24:26

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 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/adchoicesBy New School Critics

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Gorgeous by Ye 2:19:39

2y ago2:19:39

2:19:39

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 and Travis have decided to bring their A game. Together they unpack this mammoth examination of American culture and how Ye fits into it. If you'd like to support the show (and hear this episode ad-free), then j…

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Dark Fantasy by Ye 2:10:18

2y ago2:10:18

2:10:18

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 apart every single line, sample, and interpolation on the epic opening track Dark Fantasy. There are more lyrical tidbits here than food at Thanksgiving dinner. If you'd like to support the show (and hear this epis…

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Adam Pally Goes DEFCON 1:06:37

2y ago1:06:37

1:06:37

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 with Chris and Travis to work through some feelings (and let out some anger). 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…

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Season 8: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Ye 1:45:00

2y ago1:45:00

1:45:00

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 th…

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We Should Talk About Ye... 35:53

2y ago35:53

35:53

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 recent behavior. 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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Reactions to True Love and Daylight 1:13:15

2+ y ago1:13:15

1:13:15

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, which features XXXTentacion and is/was slated to be part of Donda 2. And the other is Daylight, a song from Vory that features a mumbly verse from Ye that sent everyone into a tizzy. We give our impressions of …

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Yusuf/ Cat Stevens' "Tea for the Tillerman" 41:04

2+ y ago41:04

41:04

In the latest episode of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums, Yusuf reflects on his masterpiece "Tea for the Tillerman," and discusses his decision to re-record it last year. His guitarist Alun Davies and longtime producer Paul Samwell-Smith also appear on the podcast. Later in the episode, Rolling Stone staff writer Angie Martoccio and deputy musi…

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Missy Elliott's "Supa Dupa Fly" 40:14

2+ y ago40:14

40:14

In the Nineties, much of the conversation about hip-hop was dominated by the feud between the East and West Coasts. The South was putting out tons of incredible rap records too, but almost nobody was paying any attention to Portsmouth, Virginia. With 1997's "Supa Dupa Fly", Missy Elliott and Tim "Timbaland" Mosley changed that, and gave the world a…

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Phil Spector's "A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector", ft. Darlene Love 43:10

2+ y ago43:10

43:10

In this special holiday episode of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums, our new podcast on Amazon Music, we delve into 1963's "A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector", an album that changed the way we look at holiday music. In 2019, Rolling Stone named it the best Christmas album of all time. A labor of love that pulled together all the top gir…

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Lucinda Williams' "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" 38:44

2+ y ago38:44

38:44

In the newest episode of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums, we dive into Lucinda Williams' 1998 masterpiece "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road," an album that helped define modern roots music and got Williams' long-overdue recognition as one of America's greatest songwriters. The album took six years, three producers, and some label drama to make, but …

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Public Enemy’s "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" 38:50

2+ y ago38:50

38:50

In the first episode of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums, we tackle one of hip-hop’s most important albums: Public Enemy’s 1988 political-rap masterpiece "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back", which landed at Number 15 on the magazine’s all-new 500 Greatest Albums list. In this episode, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D and producer Hank S…

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Kanye West's "Yeezus" 28:23

2+ y ago28:23

28:23

In 2013, Kanye West released Yeezus, his sixth studio album. It sounded like nothing the rapper had ever produced. Fans recoiled at the album’s experimental sound. Critics began to wonder if Ye, who seemed to be at the height of his career, might finally be losing his touch. But, then, something strange happened. Over time, the world Kanye construc…

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Parliament-Funkadelic's "Mothership Connection" 40:51

2+ y ago40:51

40:51

At the beginning of 1975, Gerald Ford was president, the United States and Soviet Union were approaching a détente in the space race, and a barber-turned-singer with a wild imagination named George Clinton was redefining the possibilities of funk music with his bands, Parliament and Funkadelic. That year, their iconic album Mothership Connection pl…

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David Bowie's "Station To Station" 28:45

2+ y ago28:45

28:45

In 1975, David Bowie moved to Los Angeles and reinvented himself. As rock's greatest chameleon, he had already achieved success as Ziggy Stardust. But this new character would be his darkest yet: the gaunt, theatrical, slick-haired Thin White Duke. And as the Duke, he created the art-rock odyssey Station to Station. It was a record made on no sleep…

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Every Movie Reference Made By Kanye West 42:51

2+ y ago42:51

42:51

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. And we read every single one because there's nothing else happening right now. So sit back and enjoy Step Brothers, Star Wars, Scarface, Elm Street, and other references. You can also watch this podcast in vid…

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Hip Hop vs The Grammys | Could Kanye's canceled performance lead to revolution? 1:02:59

2+ y ago1:02:59

1:02:59

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 Twitter thread about it. Dame Dash expressed his frustrations. It's just the latest in a long history of suspect behavior by the Recording Academy when it comes to their treatment of Black artists. We dive into wh…

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Liz Phair's "Exile in Guyville" 32:51

2+ y ago32:51

32:51

Back in 1993, a young songwriter named Liz Phair came out of nowhere to drop one of the Nineties’ defining albums: Exile in Guyville. Phair came from the Chicago indie rock scene, but she had a new story to tell: the secret life of an ordinary twentysomething woman, grappling with love and sex and insecurity. The album didn’t get any mainstream air…

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Shakira's "Dónde Están los Ladrones?" 36:14

2+ y ago36:14

36:14

With more than 80 million records sold worldwide, Shakira is the best-selling female Latin artist ever. But within her decades-long career, there’s one album that set her up for massive fame and in many ways, predicted it all: 1998’s Donde Estan Los Ladrones?. In this episode, producers and collaborators behind the album open up about working with …

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The 10 Most Over-Hated Kanye West Songs 34:05

2+ y ago34:05

34:05

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 question until he's blue in the face. 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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Weezer's "Self-Titled (The Blue Album)" 30:31

2+ y ago30:31

30:31

In 1989, a teenage Rivers Cuomo moved from suburban Connecticut to Los Angeles to become a superstar hair-metal guitarist – and instead ended up the frontman of Weezer, one of the key bands of the Nineties alt-rock revolution. Cuomo and his bandmates tell the story of the unlikely birth of Weezer, and the making of a classic debut album that's stil…

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Pete Davidson texts Kanye West: A Breakdown 46:01

2+ y ago46:01

46:01

Pete Davidson had Dave Sirus post to instagram a text message conversation between Pete and Kanye. And it is outrageous. Pete goes from standing up for himself to lecturing Kanye to offering mental health help to calling out Ye as a man. It's a smorgasbord of energy, all of which probably just complicates matters. Maybe things have to get messy bef…

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The EAZY video explained | Kanye West, The Game 28:21

2+ y ago28:21

28:21

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 music video and a discussion of everything with Ye and Pete Davidson. 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 …

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Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors" 24:16

2+ y ago24:16

24:16

Dolly Parton takes us inside Coat of Many Colors, the 1971 album where she came into her own as a solo artist, as a songwriter, and as a storyteller. Over the album’s 10 tracks — seven of them written solely by Dolly — she explored topics like poverty, class, spirituality, nature, female empowerment, and sexuality. The album marked Dolly’s first si…

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City of Gods by Fivio, Kanye West, Alicia Keys 44:35

2+ y ago44:35

44:35

Better late than never! Today we discuss the incredible, deeply layered collaboration between Fivio, Kanye West, and Alicia Keys: City of Gods. We cover Fivio and Kanye's verses and how they balance each other, the deeper sonic intentions of the song, and the optimistic yearning of Alicia Keys's anthemic chorus. If you'd like to support the show an…

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Jeen-Yuhs Part 3: First Reactions 1:07:38

2+ y ago1:07:38

1:07:38

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 we mean EVERYTHING! Part 3 of Coodie and Chike's documentary about Kanye West is wildly ambitious and enthralling. But what is it truly about? What can we take away from the 4.5 hour experience? In this episode,…

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An interview with Consequence | The making of Slow Jamz | Working with Kanye | A Tribe Called Quest 53:50

2+ y ago53:50

53:50

A hitmaker across four decades, as a solo artist, featured artist, writer, and advisor, Consequence has had a legendary career. On this episode of Watching the Throne, he details his journey from A Tribe Called Quest to his own work to his work with Kanye West. Specifically, we hear stories about the making of the beat for Slow Jamz, as well as som…

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Alice Coltrane's "Journey in Satchidananda" 40:55

2+ y ago40:55

40:55

Alice Coltrane spent the mid-Sixties in personal and musical bliss, starting a family with John Coltrane and touring the world as the pianist in his band. Then John died suddenly of liver cancer in 1967. Newly widowed at the age of 29 with four children to care for, she plunged into a lengthy period of despair. Sensing her pain, an old friend intro…

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DONDA 2 | 2/25 UPDATE: FIRST REACTIONS 1:05:58

2+ y ago1:05:58

1:05:58

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 Player website. So what do we think? In this episode, we run through every single song and give our first impressions. If you'd like to support the show (and hear this episode ad-free), then join our Patreon c…

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Jeen-Yuhs Part 2: First Reactions 45:19

2+ y ago45:19

45:19

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 through the hell of actually recording the album. In this episode, we review all of the beautiful moments in Part 2 and how it perfectly sets up the final third of the Kanye documentary trilogy. If you'd like to s…

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