The fact that he almost died and had so much creativity he had to express that he tapped an entire song with his mouth wired shut Lowkey brings me to tears. We all wish we could love something as much as Kanye loves music.
Little known fact: in this version Kanye was literally wired shut. He later redid the joint minus the wire to make it sound slightly better for the album but tried to recreate a similar slurred sound.
correction: it wasn't completely redone, there is the wired shut version and the one he recorded afterwards. he layered the two on top of eachother and only used the non wired shut version to help with some parts were the pronunciation was off if you listen to the final version with the knowledge kanyes vocals are playing twice at some points, its very obvious
He also redid a bit of the lyrics like "in the same hospital where big and tupac died" which it was only big died in so he went back and said "where biggie died"
as someone who had surgery that broke my jaw on both sides and had my mouth wired shut, you can't imagine how much pain this man went through to record this. Insane
Love how he corrected himself in the actual release about the “2pac and Biggie” hospital. Also astonishing how he recorded this while his jaw was wired shut. Such a legend
@@scizorbullet8185 how???? A lot of his earlier work in particular uses samples like these. It is the only one where he does have his mouth wired shut tho
I ur interested in more hip hop stuff check out non phixion They were first a metal group then got more into rap but they've worked with like Slipknot and hate breed and sepultura, anthrax etc
He sounds like he is pouring his heart out in this one I been around family that experience the same as this broken face jaw wired and it can crush them so this song always reminds me of that
I don't know why this is kind of making me tear up a little bit. :( I was a young child when Kanye was getting big and always felt an affinity for him. We're very different people but I'm so happy that he survived that accident and lived to tell the story. May God keep him covered.
Little known fact kanye changed the verse “in the same hospital where big and tupac died” to “in the same hospital where biggie smalls died” because he found out tupac didn’t actually go to that hospital. (1:09) where original verse is.
some differences to note the enunciation the mixing the unenthusiasm in his voice small changes of lyrics no vocal layering in conclusion, this is basically the rough/draft version
Prolly good he took Pac out of the "same hospital as Biggie Smalls died" lyric since that was inaccurate. When I heard that I was like "woah really?? They died at the same hospital!?"
fun fact: tupac didn't actually die in that hospital and that's why on the later version he says "in the same hospital where biggie smalls died" not "in the same hospital where biggie and tupac died"
In this original version Kanye says "In the same hospital where Biggie and Tupac died" and in the new version it was changed to "In the same hospital where Biggie Smalls died" because some time during this Kanye probably found out Biggie died in the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (los angeles) and Tupac died in the University Medical Center (las vegas)
This song is truly inspiring, especially this version. If Kanye can make a classic like this with his mouth wired shut, then you can do anything you put your mind to. Don’t let anybody tell you any different, you know better than anyone what you’re capable of. Thank you for sharing this. 🙏
Fun Fact: The songs lyrics was changed in the released version. In this version you can hear him say "In the same hospital that big and 2pac died" however 2pac didn't die in UCLA so he changed it to "in the same hospital that biggie smalls died"
i know this is the original mixtape version, but kanye's vocals are just so upfront over the instrumental that all i can think is "is kanye doing a discord call with me and just going on and on about how it blows having his jaw wired shut?"
Another Fun Fact is that when he said, "The same hospital where big and 2Pac died" it was wrong so he later changed to, "The same hospital where biggy smalls died" in the refined version of the song in college dropout
Donda > CLB
Fax
Is this even a question?
of course
Lmfao
@@ankitnarayan31 no it’s a statement lmao
"thank god i aint too cool for safe belt" i felt that.
It’s actually:
Thank god I ain’t too cool for the safe belt...
@@tsloth1390 corrected.i wrote it while in transit
@@aniqshardin hopefully not while you were driving! Have a good one.
@@tsloth1390 no rules no seat belt
this line gives me chills cuz kanye is my favorite artist of all time and I can't imagine him not existing
mans really made one of his best songs with his mouth wired, bro how
Through the the wire is underrated, that instrumental is one of the best of OAT
@@esvi9818 Underrsted my ass. A lot of Kanye fans like us know this is one of his greatest songs
He rhymes lines inside of yelling raps
@@TechnoAdamGuy i think he meant under appreciated? if thats the case he needs more credit than what he got
For real
When you think about it, Kanye lowkey the first mumble rapper
underrated
Nah man he makes more sense then lil pump
Y’all forgetting about that fast spitter from bonethugs that nigga definitely mumbled
He's just talking lmao
Faxx
Bruh I can’t believe he was actually able to do this with his mouth literally shut
ya ik. He is the Goat
not that crazy but very creative
@@aratedproductionmake anything half as good with your mouth wired shut amd say this isnt crazy
@@landon9348 shut up
his mouth wasn't shut, he just wasn't able to move his jaw but it isn't too hard to rap this song without moving your jaw
Broke my jaw bout a month ago got my shit banded shut and a plate in my chin. Dont think I’ve ever felt a song as much as this one.
Goat shit man.
I'm sorry you went through that❣️🙏
The amount of pain you can hear in his voice is real. Kanye is and will forever be one of the best to do it.
1:56 you can really hear it here. I feel bad for Kanye :( 😢
As someone who has broken his jaw, I can attest to how difficult this must have been. I could hardly speak for a few seconds let alone for all of this
The fact that he almost died and had so much creativity he had to express that he tapped an entire song with his mouth wired shut Lowkey brings me to tears. We all wish we could love something as much as Kanye loves music.
Little known fact: in this version Kanye was literally wired shut. He later redid the joint minus the wire to make it sound slightly better for the album but tried to recreate a similar slurred sound.
i was always confused why he apologized in the album version, when he sounded fine. i see why now lol
@@seankorch6280 haha ya facts
correction: it wasn't completely redone, there is the wired shut version and the one he recorded afterwards. he layered the two on top of eachother and only used the non wired shut version to help with some parts were the pronunciation was off
if you listen to the final version with the knowledge kanyes vocals are playing twice at some points, its very obvious
@@fishboymanshark yes! Either way creative and LEGENDARY
He also redid a bit of the lyrics like "in the same hospital where big and tupac died" which it was only big died in so he went back and said "where biggie died"
Imagine that...
Drake tore his ACL and postponed his album 😂😂😂
tearing an acl is bad didnt he just sprain his ankle?
@@Diego-gy6hu I know you can still fuckin rap. if u break ur ankle. But still bruh if it results in a classic drake album i wont be complaining.
@@Diego-gy6hu tearing an acl doesn’t wire your mouth shut does it?
@@shadyboy5090 never said u couldn’t just said that’s what happened
@@quetnom8737 it doesn’t i was never talking about kanye
as someone who had surgery that broke my jaw on both sides and had my mouth wired shut, you can't imagine how much pain this man went through to record this. Insane
That’s how you know the drugs was hitting probably smoking too he the goat
@@dylandcubbage5966 man he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into another vehicle, wth does it have to do with drugs💀
@@GuilhermeSevero07 you're slow huh
@@masonbread didn't read it right, are you mad?
@@GuilhermeSevero07he said he was doin drugs when recording this and not when he crashed
Everyone would always talk about the radio version. This is the real through the wire. Thank you for posting this man
ofc my brother
What radio version?
@@clockwork1203 the one that got released
Easily one of the greatest debut singles of all time just based on the backstory alone.
Love how he corrected himself in the actual release about the “2pac and Biggie” hospital. Also astonishing how he recorded this while his jaw was wired shut. Such a legend
Damn you can really hear the pain in his voice
I’m a metal/rock fan and don’t really care bout hip hop or rap, but this song made me fall in love with Kanye’s music
This is a massive massive outlier to the test of his music
@@scizorbullet8185 howso
@@bookisland6515 very few kanye songs are at all like through the wire
@@scizorbullet8185 how???? A lot of his earlier work in particular uses samples like these. It is the only one where he does have his mouth wired shut tho
I ur interested in more hip hop stuff check out non phixion
They were first a metal group then got more into rap but they've worked with like Slipknot and hate breed and sepultura, anthrax etc
Let's goooooo he sounds like snoop Dogg
A combination of snoop and jay z
He does more on this than the one we get
bro i first listen to this song about 2 days ago, and i was like 'oh wow a snoop dogg feature!!'
He sounds like Mase.
@@YesImJoeKing he sounds like Malcolm X
He sounds like he is pouring his heart out in this one I been around family that experience the same as this broken face jaw wired and it can crush them so this song always reminds me of that
I don't know why this is kind of making me tear up a little bit. :( I was a young child when Kanye was getting big and always felt an affinity for him. We're very different people but I'm so happy that he survived that accident and lived to tell the story. May God keep him covered.
Little known fact kanye changed the verse “in the same hospital where big and tupac died” to “in the same hospital where biggie smalls died” because he found out tupac didn’t actually go to that hospital. (1:09) where original verse is.
I was looking for someone to say this lol
I missed it. Good catch.
Kanye should've said "where Biggie Smalls and Eazy E died" would've been way more accurate
@@gangstamack8397 I’m pretty sure it’s too many syllables but yeah
Wished he did that for the "In Too Deep like Mekhi Phife" line.
some differences to note
the enunciation
the mixing
the unenthusiasm in his voice
small changes of lyrics
no vocal layering
in conclusion, this is basically the rough/draft version
seeing how his mouth was wired shut he couldn't really bring a lot of pronunciation
bro his mouth was literally wired shut
This is the original recording where his mouth was wired shut. The complete version we hear now is layered with vocals when his jaw healed.
You can hear the hunger for success in his voice. Incredible.
For real
Kanye took this recording and layered over later when he didn’t have the wire
Prolly good he took Pac out of the "same hospital as Biggie Smalls died" lyric since that was inaccurate. When I heard that I was like "woah really?? They died at the same hospital!?"
Such a classic from the production of sampling chaka kahn to genius bars... we didn’t deserve 2000’s Kanye
One of the most important songs in hip hop history
Am I only one who likes this version better? Sounds raw and real
I prefer the sound of the version on the album but this has way more meaning
Unbreakable, what ya thought they call me mr. Glass
And people have the audacity to say that Ye isn't the goat, smh
NOTHING BUT A GOAT
I use to hate this version lol now I’m searching for it 😂😂😂
Imagine The Pain he must've felt YEEESH. Legendary
2003... The year 50 took over and Kanye came out of nowhere!!
fun fact: tupac didn't actually die in that hospital and that's why on the later version he says "in the same hospital where biggie smalls died" not "in the same hospital where biggie and tupac died"
Yup 2Pac died in Las Vegas, Nevada at the UMC Hospital
he changed it in the final version
Best version the passion is perfect . Kanye never gave up his dream
“Thank God I ain’t too cool for the safe belt” I still think about that when I strap the seat belt after all these years. Classic track
"The doctor said I had blood clots, but I aint Jamaican, man"
This song can make me cry bro… triumph of the human spirit
damn this man really a living legend and icon damn thank god for Kanye
Thank you for this CJ from San Andreas
0:54 sounded like it was hurting hard
This is a piece of historic art from Kanye
My boy CJ finds these classics that were thought to be lost.
In this original version Kanye says "In the same hospital where Biggie and Tupac died" and in the new version it was changed to "In the same hospital where Biggie Smalls died" because some time during this Kanye probably found out Biggie died in the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (los angeles) and Tupac died in the University Medical Center (las vegas)
Thanks CJ
This song is truly inspiring, especially this version. If Kanye can make a classic like this with his mouth wired shut, then you can do anything you put your mind to. Don’t let anybody tell you any different, you know better than anyone what you’re capable of. Thank you for sharing this. 🙏
the fact he can flow like this without even opening his mouth
Just found out there was an original recording of this. And you have it here for us to experience the soul of it. Thank you my brother in Christ
this song still touches my soul
My boy really posted this.... I used to look for this everyday
You can feel the emotion and hunger in his voice with this version, you feel the struggle. Corny I know, but truth.
im loving his autobiography on, Netfix. Def Jam made the right decision when it did.. They made this kid, work !!
This is still in my kanye top 3 alltime songs U can feel his hunger
Thank you
Np
Fun Fact: The songs lyrics was changed in the released version. In this version you can hear him say "In the same hospital that big and 2pac died" however 2pac didn't die in UCLA so he changed it to "in the same hospital that biggie smalls died"
1:09
The hospital isn't UCLA, it's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
P.S. Cedars-Sinai is also the same hospital where J Dilla made _Donuts._
@theobuniel9643 thanks for reminding me I got confused at the time
Simply, THE GOAT
aye finally found this version!! he’s the goat foreal
This is why we love ye, he doesn't care if he has a wired jaw, homies gonna spit and nothings gonna stop him
3 best Kanye songs - (IMO)
Through the wire
No more parties in LA
Bring me down
What about never see me again
@@oysui Damn Obama you rly goin through it rn huh?
my top 3
Through the Wire
Power
Heard em say
Runaway
Tbh this shoulda been the released version considering it would actually tie into the theme and topic of the song
i know this is the original mixtape version, but kanye's vocals are just so upfront over the instrumental that all i can think is "is kanye doing a discord call with me and just going on and on about how it blows having his jaw wired shut?"
This just hits different
Chaka wasn’t too happy about Kanye’s new lyrics to her song but older assists should be proud that modern artists brings back their music to life
his evolution is amazing‼️
When’s a will, there’s a way.
Thank you, CJ)
One of the best to ever do it !
Damn I never heard this Version....guess what I love it!
Yo it’s like he’s a legend well he is he did it through the wire with no
Affects
wish there was a video of him recording this with his mouth wired shut
Holy fuck thank you for the upload, this is neat
kanye really mumbled less than mumble rappers while having his mouth wired shut
Hearing this in jeen-yuhs just felt like watching history unfold.
Litteriley spittin thru da wire
Dang man that’s to here my favorite rapper have to go through that pain
I can only imagine how the Roc-A-Fella people were feeling after hearing this lmao
Everytime I rap the new version I grit my teeth shut and try to rap it in memory of tha great
dedication at its finest🤝
Really Fantastic 👍🏼🔥🔥🔥🔥
The man had his jaw wired shut
This was the defining moment of Ye's character.
bop
bro how tf do you rap while your mouth is wired shut? if that isnt dedication then i dont know what is.
Imagine if he had of died he would’ve never become
The 47th President of the United States
Might want to reedit it to 48th 😭😭😭
Bro he’s a legend
Another Fun Fact is that when he said, "The same hospital where big and 2Pac died" it was wrong so he later changed to, "The same hospital where biggy smalls died" in the refined version of the song in college dropout
God loves you
Legend
Man literally sounds like he's Through the Wire
because he was through the wire! this rough draft was literally recorded 2 weeks after his car accident, with his jaw wired up.
Drake postponed his trash album for months but Kanye can make one of his best songs while his mouth is wired shut
he kinda sounds like peter griffin lmaoo
ily
Fun Fact: 1:10 he says “where biggie and Tupac died”, he later changed it to “where biggie small died” because Tupac didn’t actually die there.
bro legit had a wire through his mouth and thought
"hold on, I got an idea"
love ye more than ever
quién chingaos iba a pensar que el cj tenía los tape originales del 1er disco del kanye un grande el cj
I guess the modern version of this would be the pre-patch version of JIK and Kids See Ghosts (where the names were switched on the two songs)
More like the Yandhi versions of JIK songs with explicit lyrics
0:41 he kinda sounds like Snoop
Haha 😂
I love kanye
..
this man rapping with a broken jaw