Kanye West - Through the Wire - A Reaction 

They called the sped up soul samples "Chipmunk Soul" back then.

Chaka khan hates what Kanye did to her voice, he was famous in the early 2000's for speeding up r&b and soul samples.

Lol she heard this song, and she didn’t like what they did to her voice either 😂😂😂

Appreciate the background work you do before listening to the music

please do more kanye songs!

The sped up samples were a style back during that time. Most samples vocal or not were sped up to make the song different then the original, probably why most young people don't know that certain things are sampled. Also Chaka Khan, must have felt the same way that you did, cause SHE DEFINITELY hated this song with a PASSION!, lol.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2Zkb5Yfvv0E.html

Chaka Khan said in a recent interview on Vlad TV that she personally doesn't like the song.

He recorded the song 2 days after wiring jaw

This was his debut single,one of the best producers in hip hop if we're being honest

awesome you should also check out all falls down

That speeding up is an entire style that Kanye helped popularize.. I personally love it.. but I can see how you may think it’s annoying. I suggest All Falls Down from this same Kanye album.

I just saw Chaka Khan do an interview on VladTV and she was pissed about what Kanye did with her voice on the sample. It made me think of this video. Lol

One of the great rap tracks of all time. Very emotional!

The sped up voice is actually my favorite part of the song

You gotta check out "Heard em say" or 'Runaway by Kanye. My two favorites of his more popular songs

Kanye is my favorite artist ever, I recommend you listen to his song called "Ghost Town"

You got a cool vibe my seasoned friend. Respect!

I would highly recommend Hey Mama before moving to his newer stuff. Really contextualizes his relationship with his mother that permanently changed his trajectory with his career. Originally there was a trilogy of albums he did with "Through The Wire" and Jesus Walks" being from the College Dropout, then Hey Mama is from Late Registration, and the final album was Graduation in 2007. He was going to make a album called Good Ass Job about graduating "ghetto university" as it was later referred to, but his mother passed and he recorded a entirely different album sonically and emotionally from anything at the time from him or really anyone else which is called "808s and Heartbreak." Kanye has the kind of discography that really builds context each album into who he truly is as a person, and so on certain songs, especially from his last 3 albums, they make a whole lot more sense when you look back at what hes said and gone through over the years. The best example of this is his relationship with God on his latest album (which is also named after his mother Donda). He starts the album and seems to be falling back on God in a negative way, almost expecting him to help him out and it comes off arrogant. By the end of the album hes clearly transformed his idea of who he is as a person, and it feels like for the first time since Graduation released, he sounds like he's actually accepted her passing and moved on from the way the media has treated him (much of his songs have been about this). Hey Mama is a personal song to Kanye and he even performed it live on Ellen with Donda in the crowd. Highly highly recommend

Kanye was working in the studio late one night and overworked himself to the point when he was driving back to his hotel he nodded off at the wheel and crashed head on with another car the steering wheel smashed into his face at 50 mph it broke his chin in three places

Will always be a favorite song I Love Chaka Khan .I enjoyed the way he took the sample and made it extra special.

more kanye boomer :)

Lol you sound like chaka, she said I can't stand that song. She did forgive him though, and he brought her out to sing that part. It's on RU-vid.

The high pitch cartoony sound was really popular in 90s hip hop samples because most producers sampled slow records, and put the vocals on faster beats. They didn't have the technology back then to speed it up and keep the octave the same. I think hip hop listeners became accustomed to the chipmunk samples.

I really enjoy the song particularly the sped up sample but admittedly, I’ve never heard the original or if I have, I’m not very familiar with it

I think that this video is greatly supported by the music video

hey there hipper snapper! back to fight in this bias family law system .. wish me luck ! hope i dont get my ass kicked to where i have to spit through the wire lol stay positive , stay blessed from changuito chico

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Really enjoying your reaction videos! Almost at 1k subscribers!

My first time here😅

First!

Songs like this is why it’s hard not to root for him. If you at him long enough,you can tell which cheek got the plate

Classic kanye, back when he was humble lol. I think u should also do “touch the sky” from him.

Not feeling Kanye west at all. Neither his music nor his ugly MF shoes. His production is very good but not his lyrics_flow.