Fun fact, kanye recorded through the wire with his jaw wired shut from the car crash.

Yes, he rapped with his mouth wired, hence the title "Through The Wire". The sample says "Through the fire", but his production makes it sound like "through the wire" to fit the context of the song. There are other versions of the song, one that was originally released that said "In the same hospital where Tupac died", but turned out that was wrong and it was Biggie Smalls who died in the same hospital Kanye was treated in, so he switched the lyrics. You'll see more about the song in the documentary, there's a lot of history behind it, but the biggest thing to know is that once he got in the car accident, meaning its one of the older songs on the album. But the accident is when he realized he should go all in to rap because life is too short to limit yourself. In his case, the industry wanted him to stay as a producer, but the accident was a sign to chase his dreams.

Kanye's first five albums are all classics. A run like that might not ever happen again.

I think a lot of people don’t realize how revolutionary this album was, it absolutely changed hip-hop as a whole and made Kanye undoubtedly one of the biggest artistic pioneers of the twenty-first century. Also the music is so charming and soulful, you can just sense the passion and love throughout the entire album. Edit: Commenting again to clear some stuff, the intro skits feature DeRay Davis doing a Bernie Mac impression, and your father is right in his assumption that he’s a figure of authority, I believe he’s supposed to be a teacher at the college Kanye’s at in the narrative. Great reaction guys, you’re definitely gonna be big in the future! ❤️🤗

Twista’s verse is so underrated on Slow Jamz. Love how he snuck in so many R&B singers/bands into his bars. So clever!

Kanye greatest artist of all time

Debut Album and a Grammy, only a very few have done it

My favorite album of all time, perfect mix of humor and deep subjects, with a ton of confidence and determination

Two words and through the wire are perfect

it’s the 20th anniversary. Kanye is the goat

yep you were right about through the wire being recorded with his jaw wired up

Last call makes me tear up every time man.

Could very well be the best rap album ever. Pure musical genius! This is what fans mean when we say "We miss the Old Kanye"

Everytime family business comes on I get choked up , beautiful song

Glad you liked my album, I'm 100% sure you'll reach 100k or more at some point

Album changed Hip Hop. And then he subsequently went on to change it with every new album he dropped. Excited for you guys to go through the journey in order. There is a lot of context in his life that informs each album. Big part of the Kanye mythos and why he is still at the front of the cultural zeitgeist today.

Just waiting for them getting to yeezus

Excited to see your journey. Haircut looking sharp!

Excited to take this journey with y'all! Kanye's one of them artists whose music never gets old. Great video!

Best way to start the weekend!

you guys are amazing

looking forward to continuing the journey with you guys

So excited for this journey and you guys seeing his development as an artist!

The the guy is DeRay Davis and he’s doing an impression of Bernie Mac, who was on Friday and they are all from Chicago as am I lol 😂

React to Common - Be / its produced mainly by Kanye and some tracks are produced by legendary producer J Dilla. To me its one of the best albums of the 2000s

You guys have a channel that will strike gold with going through Kanye’s discography. The main reason people gravitate to these type of channels is it allows us to go back in memory to hearing Kanye’s albums for the first time and how it felt. His discography is the greatest in hip hop. Have fun with it. I am looking forward to your Yeezus review. I would also love to see you eventually get to Watch the Throne(Collaboration album with Jay-Z)

looking forward to the next album dude, you're in for a real treat

so many albums i'm looking forward to you guys reacting to, this was great! glad you guys enjoyed it

All falls down is perfect track has a message it's catchy n lyrical and has a really good hook

Love the video and Keep going guys! I can see this channel blowing up.

Amazing reaction ❤

The doc just gets better!

Impeccable taste in music guys 🎶✨

Amazing video. Keep up the kanye

Great video!

This is a refreshing review, no preconceived perception or listening to what anyone else says, just listening to the music(and the doc, I think you guys would enjoy his interviews as well), and making your own judgments. In my opinion there isn’t a bad albums in his discography.

I'm super excited for you guys to listen to the next album Late Registration, its for sure my favorite album he's released.

Another cracking vid fellas.. 👍🏻

I love this Album

Absolute gem of a KZfaq channel!

please do more

Can’t wait to see you guys react to late registration !

And you are right every album is completely different. You also mentioned the album sounds new despite being 20 years old, thats another common thing with kanye his production is timeless

Love this channel, you two are great and spot on with everything you said, and you're in for a fucking ride, kanye in my opinion is the greatest artist of all time for multiple reasons. Can't wait for this journey.

I'm here for the journey 👌

love you and your dads love for music, especially seeing you guys seem to share some love for the same music as me like mbv, slowdive and other shoegaze type artists. i’m not sure how familiar you guys are with beach house but i would love to see you guys check them out, depression cherry would be a good place to start or bloom. just the way you guys have talked about what you guys like in your videos i think you two will love it, great videos mane

Kanye is just incredible, I am really looking forward to both of you getting into his music and get a taste of what a diverse artist he is. So many different feelings this artist can produce and put you into. You will love it as more as you get into it. Greetings from Austria

Crazy to think this is 20 years old man makes me feel even older, Kanye is 1 of a kind honestly. Looking forward to your next reviews dropped a sub so I dont miss out

Kanye really made history with this project, such a legendary album keep up the great work guys!!

My fav allbum is graduation im keen for you to hear that, but my second favourite is kids see ghosts which is fairly recent. By the way his new album vultures is acheduled to release today

I believe this is the beauty of all art but especially Hip Hop staying on topic. There's so much to discover by way of the music.

Funny thing is I saw the MBDTF album review and heard you were considering starting from the beginning which had me excited. Then I completely forgot the name of your channel because I wanted to check in to see if you started the journey and luckily the youtube algorithm popped this video just now. I’m subscribed now and see you’ve reviewed other great albums so I’m looking forward to checking more videos out! Looking forward to Late Registration’s review this album came out the summer/fall I graduated high school and is my favorite

Please do all of kanyes catalogue

u guys are cool affff ur dad remember my dad, HE used to loveeee kanye. Fking good reaction

KANYE’S BEST. KANYEEZY YOU DID IT AGAIN

Cant wait for late registration! And all others of course

Kanye the GOAT 🐐

I would love for you guys to go through the whole the whole discography. Anyone who has knows what a legend he is.

Yeezus is gunna go crazy

I’m typing this as the song begins, so my apologies if you spotted this on your own, but Spaceship is in 3/4 time, making it one of very few hip-hop tracks that is not in 4/4 - mainly because rapping to other time signatures is incredibly difficult. In fact, as you may be able to tell if you listen carefully, it seems apparent that both Consequence and GLC - the emcees on 2nd and 3rd verses - struggled with their syllable placement (and that’s not to disparage or discredit their technical rapping skills whatsoever); certainly their vocals were cleaned up for the end product, but there are still some spots mid-bar where you can hear their cadence go slightly off-beat in a way that doesn’t suggest intentional syncopation. Honestly, I think that just makes it all the more impressive Kanye was able to make his verse flow so seamlessly.

The guy in Friday is comedian Bernie Mac. The guy on this album is comedian Deray Davis doing an impression of Bernie.

You guys should check out Earl Sweatshirt!

great video you guys should listen to kid cudi’s man on the moon trilogy along the way as well

My favorite album of all time

Thanks for this, you will not regret venturing through kanyes discography. Another request is - XXXtentacion

20 years to the day! 02/09/2004

🔥🔥🔥

Loving the hip hop reactions lads, can I make a suggestion to add to your list : Wu-tang clan, Enter the wu tang (36 chambers) Think you’ll like Rza’s production style 👍🏼

You have to react to graduation album by Kanye west next!

Would like to see a Yeezys reaction. Definitely his most polarizing album.

I'm already assuming Jesus walks gonna impress him the most. Love the channel. Hope you do Atrocity exibition by Danny Brown next. Easily the best album of 2010s.

Ahh College Dropout... ❤

He Didn't drop yesterday, but if he does you should react to Vultures (It's probably not comingout)

please do his full discography you will be surprised 🙏

Kanye will never be the greatest wordsmith or the deepest poet but he sometimes hits you with lines that make you pause and go "Damn that was pretty good." For me it was on Two Words when he says "And i basically know now weve been racially profiled, cuffed up and hosed down, pimped up and hoed down." As a kid that grew up with the images of American police in the south literally arresting children and turning firehoses on full blast at black people, i can imagine how much that affected him.

Slow jamz is incredible for so many reasons. Jamie Foxx killed the chorus, this was literally a modern day 70s soul song you can slow dance to it, you can sex to it all that. And even how the song flows. It has a slow flow at first then twists ends the song super fast. Just like sex. You start off gettin it all hot then when it’s time you go hard in the paint! 😈💖

Basically late registration and college dropout are the only similar albums tbh, the sound changes significantly every album onwards.

J Cole - The Off season next please 🔥🔥🔥 or Big K.R.I.T 4eva is a mighty long time 🔥🔥🔥

Can you react to Jay-z Reasonable Doubt, Ludacris Back for the first time, and Nas Illmatic

Alright fellas, great channel building up. I know it's not easy to catch everything on a first list and I understand that you guys are more concerned with the musical elements of music which I enjoy but a big part of Rap or what it once was about, is telling your story to the world. Kanye goes on to do less of that as his career goes on however I think it would add some more to your videos get your perspective on what's being said and the themes of the albums as 2 fellas from the other side of the world. But of course only do so if you feel comfortable doing so. Just a suggestion.

Pops might lose it when he hears Graduation

i believe kanye's verse on two words was freestyle!

y'all need to react to my album OPUS!

React to Graduation… Kanye’s best work

4 Your Eyez Only by J Cole. My favourite rap album of all time, a classic. You'd love it imo

Mates, if it's possible try to read a bit of the context around the next few albums as well, each album is different because it's informed by where he is in his career, events leading up to the album, especially important post-Graduation.

Graduation next

Yes, Through the Wire he rapped with his jaw brace on after the car crash

Enjoy your Kanye wormhole!

React to some tame impala🙏🏽

Please react to new Kanye Album named Vultures 1 i love your reactions

Think bono took him on tour after this came out

He went head to head with 50cent on his graduation release and smoked him in album sales imo because hes not just rapping about shooting up some op block

Can you react to Big L - lifestyles of the broke and dangerous album. You will enjoy it trust me. Big L is considered in the top 5 greatest rappers of all time

Faces by Mac Miller Next!

Can't wait for Late Registration.

Good video, I highly recommend 1999 by Joey Bada$$

RELEASED FEB. 9 2004 🖤🕊️ god bless you.

You're officialy a Kanye fan when you start defending him and blame the media. Welcome to the club!

LATE REGISTRATION NEXT