Watch The Throne album review

WARNING


This blog may (will) contain explicit lyrics but they were needed to get my points across.

H.A.M.


The first line says " It was all good just a week ago". You would think he is referring to how things were better last week, but no. He's saying this is how their competition will feel when Watch The Throne drops. He's saying the album will cause havoc throughout the industry. Basically all of the lines are deeper than they seem and I can't cover all of the, but the ones that stand out in my head the most, I will. Moving forward, Kanye West says "And if life's a b**ch then s*ck my d*ck, huh? And I bet she f*cked the whole clique, huh? By the way, you should f*cking quit n*gga" The first sentence of my quote he's referring to the rapper Nas's saying "life is a b....." and he's saying that he wants a . . . from life because apparently that's what b*tches do. Next, he indirectly talks about Amber Rose. She basically smashed the whole Taylor Gang rap group. This is an attack to Amber Rose and Wiz Khalifa because Kanye is basically saying Amber Rose is Wiz Khalifa's sloppy seconds. Then, he says you should quit. He's talking about Wiz Khalifa again, attacking his rapping skills. Later in the same verse he says he's kicking people out like pam. He refers to Pam from the Martin show.


No Church in the Wild

In Jay-Z's verse, he says: "Lies on the lips of a priest, Thanksgiving disguised as a feast." What he's saying is that the church is lying and the real meaning of Thanksgiving is negative but's it's hidden by the positive of a get together feast. The clergy assisted colonists in cheating and killing Native Americans, yet Thanksgiving is meant to celebrate it as a feast of cooperation. In Kanye's verse, he says :"We formed a new religion, No sins as long as there’s permission, And deception is the only felony, So never f*ck nobody without telling me."Explained in keeping with the religious motif of the song, ‘Ye has discovered that, in the words of The Beatles (who were, after all, bigger than Jesus) “All you need is love”. John Lennon has gone on to clarify: "I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that's what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong." These lyrics continue the themes of free will in the hook, as well as the concept developed in Jay’s verse of himself, ‘Ye, and Jesus as the holy trinity (aka God). But about never f*cking anybody without telling ‘Ye, the kind of love that Kanye needs is open, honest, ethical nonmonogamy. He has thrown off the shackles of traditional (or religious) expectations of what a relationship is, declaring that as long as everything either party does is consensual and okayed by their partner (ie there is “permission”) it is not a “sin”. Breaking the trust necessary for this kind of relationship to work is the only serious offense (or “felony”). Later in the same verse he says "Two tattoos one read "No Apologies",The other said "Love is Cursed by Monogamy", It’s something that the pastor don’t preach, It’s something that a teacher can’t teach". A perfect apostle for the Church of Yeezy. The tattoos spell out his new philosophy—there’s no shame in rejecting monogamy, as expectations of monogamy doom sacred love. That may not be what most Christian churches teach but, it's Ye's world in his mind.


Last Song
Gotta Have It


In the first two lines of the song, Kanye says: "'Ello, 'ello, 'ello, hello white America, assassinate my character, Money matrimony, yeah they tryna break the marriage up." Kanye has ran into 2 major altercations with "White America". One was with Mike Myers when he said that George Bush “does not care about black people”. The other was when he went up on stage and took the mic from Taylor Swift because he believe Beyonce deserved the award. When he says break the marriage, he saying he's married to his money and they are trying to break that up. Three lines later he makes reference to the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off when he says : "I think I need a day off, I'mma call Ferris up". Then Jay-Z takes over. Two lines after that he says "Bueller had a Muller but I switched it for a Mille . . Cause I'm richer and prior to this sh*t was moving freebase". The words ‘richer’ and ‘prior’ are a reference to comedian Richard Pryor. He suffered severe burns in 1980 in a mysterious fire that some attributed to his freebasing of cocaine. As it turns out, the fire was actually an unsuccessful suicide attempt. It additionally serves as a references to Jay Z’s drug-dealing days. In addition, Jay Z's use of “richer” reminds us that Mille’s name is also Richard. Piling up the references, Pryor starred in a 1988 movie called Moving, and Mueller Industries is the name of a plumbing company in the movie.