Kanye West - Through the Wire (Lyrics)
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Artist/Group: Kanye West
Album: The College Dropout
Released: 2004
Label: Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella
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"Through the Wire" is the debut single by American rapper Kanye West, who wrote and recorded the song with his jaw wired shut after a car crash in October 2002. The song samples Chaka Khan's 1985 single "Through the Fire" and was released on the last day of September 2003 as the lead single from his debut album The College Dropout (2004).
"Through the Wire" peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and received positive reviews from music critics. It was certified Platinum and Gold in the United States and United Kingdom, respectively. The song was nominated for a 2005 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance, but lost to Jay-Z's "99 Problems". The music video was financed by West, who was inspired by an Adidas advertisement. It won Video of the Year at the 2004 Source Hip Hop Awards.
On October 23, 2002, West was in a California recording studio producing music for Beanie Sigel, Peedi Crakk, and The Black Eyed Peas. After leaving the studio at around 3 a.m. in his rented Lexus, he had a near-fatal crash when he was cut off by a car, ran head-on into traffic, and collided with another car near the W Hotel. He was taken to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, mentioned in the song as "the same hospital where Biggie Smalls died," and had his jaw wired to his face in reconstructive surgery. Two weeks after being admitted to the hospital, he recorded the song at the Record Plant Studios with his jaw still wired shut. Consequence recalls West started rapping the lyrics to the song three days after the crash.
The song's title refers to the wires used to hold his broken jaw together. When asked about how the incident changed his music, West stated:
Well, the only thing this accident's is saying is, "I am about to hand you the world, just know at any given time I can take it away from you." To nearly lose your life, to nearly lose your mouth, your voice, your whole face, as a rapper...and I had to be on TV! My face looks crazy to me now... But I have to just thank God for the situation that I am in... "Through The Wire" is the worst thing that could've possibly happened to me, and now it's obviously the best thing. Look how it exploded!
The song originally appeared on West's mixtape Get Well Soon... where his wired jaw was incredibly noticeable, before being re-recorded and released as the first single from The College Dropout in late 2003. Although he initially had trouble convincing Roc-A-Fella Records executives to let him make his own album as a rapper, he was able to change their minds after the song's release.
"Through the Wire" was inspired by the 2002 car crash and West has provided a comedic account of his difficult recovery. West samples a pitch-shifted and sped up version of Chaka Khan's 1985 single "Through the Fire". Coodie, one of the music video's directors, reported that Khan wouldn't initially allow the sample to be cleared until the video was shown to her son and he told Khan about it, leading to the sample being cleared about two weeks later. Khan later expressed her love for the track, calling West a "sweetheart, truly adorable" and the way he used the sample "so clever". However, in June 2019, Khan criticized West's unorthodox, highly pitchshifted use of the sample, calling it "stupid". West did not receive writing credit for the song, which instead went to David Foster, Tom Keane, and Cynthia Weil, who wrote "Through the Fire". West's rapping is described as "a Snoop-meets-Hova flow, twisting up his words with the patented 'izz' inflection."
Dave Heaton of PopMatters called it "as riveting and moving as everyone says it is" and it "may be the album's most startling personal horror story (though it's also a song of hope and gratitude)". AllMusic's Andy Kellman said it was "a daring way to introduce himself to the masses as an MC" and it "couldn't have forged his dual status as underdog and champion any better." Kellman described the content as "heartbreaking and hysterical" and that despite his "inevitable slur, his words ring loud and clear".
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This is peak Kanye, this will always be my favourite song of his.
I was 5 yrs old when this song came out
Fax
👍👍👍😘
You can have whatever opinion on Kanye that you want, you can’t deny his genius. Kanye is a legend
The fact that he was able to rap with a metal plate in his mouth is CRAZY 🔥
Sadly at the end of him rapping the metal melted because of the heat of his rhymes
Why cant I save this to a playlist
Why cant I save this tp a Playlist
I have a metal plate in my face so I know the recovery I’ll forever respect Ye for spitting fire when he’s fucked up that’s real
Metal in his chin with wires wiring his mouth shut and he still made and produced a song, he's simply him
Still my favorite song of Kanye. Everytime I listen to it, for some reason it makes me push through a trying situation with strong focus 💪
Stronger as well
I remember hearing this on the radio 97.9 the box
This is my Kanye
On here cause this dude a legend !
Through the fire, to the limit, to the wall
Through the fire, through whatever, come what may
Every time I heard this when I was a kid I wondered why he sounded like he did went straight over my head
Kanye is tough. He is also a very good singer. Give some respect
Still better than any jay z song
Too far 😭
@@Gigi.240nah jay z pretty mid tbh
444 is my favorite Jay-Z album and this is better than any song from it so I agree
Jay is a top 3 rapper aot, or atleast top 5
@@Ben-qh7uq top 15 is more reasonable,we have kanye,kendrick,nas, mf doom
i really like the kanye image
This mid 2000s Kanye was king.
I remember when this song was released... it's enjoyable, but the pain is remembered from the album, bless Kanye!
When people knock you down soo much that’s why he says “no one can stop me from rapping ? Metaphorically he is saying that is the one thing that they can’t snatch from him is his talent his voice
I love his music so much ❤😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉 I love his songs 😅😊😊
Can u pls come back to this Kanye? Please….
I miss the old Kanye 😢
You don’t know the old Kanye mate you found out about kanye from TikTok
Life is change, deal with it
New kanye is better he is right about✡️
Kanye is right don’t believe mainstream media , look how they protected epnstein and his list clients , while Isis ra el is killing Palestinians everyday and selling their organs
This is my favorite song by him 🎉🎉🎉
My mom is in the hospital & this song really helps a lot 🎉 Thanku Kanye! Stay on the good side bro
Hope your mom doing good 🙏🏽
@@AVOXO100 hi there thankyou for reaching out. My mama went to be with the Lord on March 31 of this year. She’s in the greatest place 💥 no pain or sadness, ever again.
@@AVOXO100 she’s in heaven now 🕊️ free from pain
I tear up listening to this every time other than PURE genius that he put on this track I relate so well.. Except I ain’t rich yet lol
❤😂 you never know you could become abundantly wealthy, this song makes me emotional too, especially when he talks about a metal plate being put into the jaw, my uncle had to have a metal plate put in his jaw after having more then half his jaw removed due to cancer in the bone and tissues, very aggressive and through it his wife left him right after he went through the surgery 😢. It's messed up when people abandon people when they're struggling in their time of need, it's cold hearted. "I pray the lord blesses you in your health and wealth and your family in Jesus name AMEN" ❤🕊 😉 ☺
@@garypeterson6849 amen 🙏🏾 and thank you brother
@@garypeterson6849maybe ur uncle was abusive to her. There's no smoke without fire
I almost cried when I heard this song for the first time
@@yaboyj2191that's possible, she had a difficult story immigrating to America alone, and my uncle is a heavy drinker, we haven't been real close since my dad stopped drinking, and not to get way to personal but he had been married three times in total, and had been caught cheating on his 2nd wife by my Grandmother 😮
Always after pain there is beutiful art. It is par to lose yourself, eminem.
Watching jeen-yuhs on netflix now...crying for donda. She didnt deserve her fate...
I listen to the original song and that's amazing too, but this is still better than what she made
i thought snoop was singing this because kanye west mouth was shut, but kanye sang this and im freaking bamboozled
Snoop???? It sounds more like Hov tbh
It does sound like snoop the more i think about it
This song is an inspiration when I am feeling confused about anything in life, when the pressure is getting to me, when I doubt that I can succeed.. This song reminds me that there is No Limit at all to what I can do!!!!!!!🐅🐅🐅
Let me even Google that accident real quick
I miss this Kanye. I'm not ok with his behavior and a lot of it is on him but I'm more pissed with his people. If we see it, they've seen more and to not step in to help is fucked up. Maybe they did behind the scenes but imho, they didn't push hard enough. Hope he can turn it around, for his kids more so than anyone else.
Cuando una persona en su situación decide no dejarse ayudar no hay nada que otra persona pueda hacer. Viví una experiencia parecida y es algo demasiado duro y triste, solo lo puede entender en su justa dimensión quien lo ha vivido.
There’s nothing wrong with Kanye. He’s acting his part in this Hollywood stage
When your jaw izs wired shut but I had active interpretors deciphering everything in real time for me but they blamed jay for teaching me gibnerish but it wasnt jay who taught me to speak gibberish fluently cause the jaw was literally chillin at my house then 😂😂😂
sizzurp bar is a triple entendre
I hate that I am only discovering this after kanye went off the deep end. Bro went from talking through the wire to talking through batshit insane neo nazi propaganda.
Thought of this song as of right now. My jaw is completely wired shut, broken in three places! 6 to 8 weeks of toture 😂😂😂
Been jan of 99 since mine was wire shut .... metal plate still in my chin .... but I promise you got this!
Kanye rapping about Akala.
Feeling that shit!!🔊🔊🙌🏻🌬️🍃💨😎👌🏻
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Dam he was fine 😂
Why cant I save this tp a Playlist
This is gonna be me soon "through the wire" after I get jaw surgery I have to have my jaw wired shut. Not looking forward to it. This song makes me feel a little better
Me too 😂😂🎉🎉🎉
R.I.P. Cynthia Weil
who's that
@@sucrameD One of the songwriters for that Chaka Khan song “Through The Fire”?
@@ShyGuy83 damn, then rest in peace
Absolute Talent!
W kanye
Had to search “kanye good lyrics” to find this song. He did it to himself. He chose a life and i dont feel any sorrow for him. Let him spend his life in a sanitarium. hes spent
Well said g
Wtf no body asked you. He still has fans where's yours?
I don't think anyone chooses mental illness..... just sayin.
Y'all's gotta hear the interview majority of it was a media stunt to break the shitty shoe contract I can't remember what brand. They alrdy resigned with him his silly tweet Abt liking Jews again bc of Jonah Hill's performance in 21 Jump Street is bc not as many ppl are tuning in
@@alwayshere6956 bullshiiiiit lol. He burned down his entire endorsement deal with EVERY single company he worked with for his Hitler love. He lost billions. Don’t push a false narrative.
Can someone explainthe meaning of this whole song ?i dont understand what Kanye is talking about
This was about kanyes experience after a serious car accident that almost killed him, and his mouth was wired shut because of the injuries, hes literally rapping through the wire and basically hes saying that despite that life changing near death experience hes willing to stay motivated to work harder to be successful and wont let any obstacle stop him from it
When your jaw is wired shut and then scientology has to go and ruin it with that Eyes Wide Shut movie..... xD so narrow minded xD
Remember when the hax kept following me around talking bout "how is she always right" and they thought Jeremy taught me all that stuff but I'm just like an idiot savant xD #Genius
10 years of trigeminal neuralgia in my f*ckimg face was some unforgivable shit tho
"It's not that I didn't know enough I just knew too much does that make me crazy? Does that make me crazy?" You really think you're in control?
I dunno but you really think infecting me with leptospirosis thru dog pee which almost made me go into renal failure was necessary because the resulting traumatic brain injury when they put me on malaria inhibitors to stop the zoonotic infection after it shut down my immune system resulted in the leptospira hiding in the nerve cluster in my brain to hide from the antibiotics and it damaged the myelin sheath that coats all the nerves in my brain and made them short circuit.
It's all fun and games to yall but you have 10 years shaved off your life and suffer in excruciating pain for 10 years from the most painful nerve condition there is IN YOUR FACE AND HEAD and see how much fun everyone thinks their fire fights are then.
that p diddy's parent.
@youngphillip2000
1 year ago
I remember hearing this on the radio 97.9 the box
Damn man, a real song about real shit. That’s a soooo rare these days.
There’s nothing about twerking, drinking drugs or being hoe at all in this, genuinely so rare!
16 years old and still one of the best songs in circuit
@@iitskxi3170 Facts 💯