Who remembers the first time you heard "Through The Wire" ?

[dollarandadream]

Thought it didn't sound like a typical Roc record, but I didn't really become a Kanye fan until I heard "Two words".

Two Words was dope ^^^

 

[HarlemThumzUp]

I thought the vid was dope.

 

[nickel-us P]

I went on my cuzs kazaa library and he had like 30 tracks by "kanye west". Back wen he had a verse for basically every hit he made. Im like ' dude made this beat!?' Became a fan since. Didnt think that would end so eruptly.

 

[$ineedmoney$]

When I first heard Thru The Wire I was like, "Who this fucc nikka on the radio?" I thought Kanye was Juelz Santana's weed carrier that got a wack deal or sumthin'. Then I heard All Falls Down and checked Kanye's background about the car accident that nearly took his life. It then all came together cause I didnt know about Kanye. I listened to Thru The Wire again and had big respect for dude.

That being said....Ye' fell off after Graduation.

 

[clairvoyance]

Around the time this song came out I was a huge WU-TANG fan, so my feelings towards this song was he straight jacked RZA production style with the chipmunk voice and made it corny by using it for the entire sample. RZA was known for taking a small portion of a record/sample that was dope and looping it (example:"260")while adding his own sound to it , one of the reasons I wish he would get back to sampling and feel through the wire sample wasnt used in a way that I would prefer. Aside from production it was a coming of age record which I enjoyed from a lyrical standpoint and I saw and understood where he was coming from and hes proven to be a great producer whos production evolved since....

But till this day im still a Wu head at heart

 

[A1000MILES]

"Aight...I just wanna tell the niggas who know...That I'm the newest member of the Roc-A-Fella teeeeeaaaaaam!"

"Without a arm I spit, without a arm I spit! Without a arm I spit! MY NIGGA HOLD IT!"

 

[Miltown Marauder]

I thought he was gonna DMX the game back to backpack/ consciousness.

 

[LEMZIMUS_RAMSEY]

I was amazed. You could feel the hunger the pain the extreme motivation of that guy....

One of his greatest song imo

 

[yroholla]

I check the producers on all the tracks I bump so I already knew Kanye was nice...when I heard this I was thinking the bars aren't great but the beats dope... n what heat he was gonna give Jay next

 

[mc317]

Fuck Kimye and his jaw

 

[Lincoln]

"if you could feel how my face felt, you would know how mase felt"

i didn't know what he was talking about back then but now that's one of my favorite lines.

 

[MR.CJ]

classic song

 

[TayJone]

all i remember was being in 7th grade, and everybody knew the song. i didnt think he was going to be good until i actually heard College Dropout. Then Kanye kept making hits. and now he is Yeezus...the one i dont like