Lyrical Breakdown of Through The Wire - A Journey through Words and Rhymes

Yo, Gee, they can't stop me from rapping can they?

Can they, Hop?

I spit it through the wire, man

It's too much stuff on my heart right now, man

I'll gladly risk it all right now

It's a life or death situation, man

Y'all don't really understand how I feel right now, man

It's your boy Kanye to the

Chi-Town, what's going on?

Uh-huh, yeah, yeah

I drink a Boost for breakfast, an Ensure for dessert

Somebody ordered pancakes I just sip the sizzurp

That right there could drive a sane man berserk

Not to worry, Mr. H-to-the-Izzo's back to wizzerk

How do you console my mom or give her light support

Telling her, her son's on life support

And just imagine how my girl feel

On the plane scared as hell that her guy look like Emmett Till

She was with me before the deal she been tryna be mine

She a delta so she been throwing that dynasty sign

No use me tryna be lying

I've been trying to be signed

Trying to be a millionaire

How I used two lifelines?

In the same hospital where Biggie Smalls died

The doctor said I had blood clots

But I ain't Jamaican, man

Story on MTV and I ain't trying to make a band

I swear, this right here, history in the making, man

I really apologize for everything right now man

If it's unclear at all, man

They got my mouth wired shut for like I don't know the doctor said like six weeks

You know we had reconstru-

I had reconstructive surgery on my jaw

I looked in the mirror, half of my jaw was in the back of my mouth, man

I couldn't believe it

But I'm still here for y'all right now, man

This is what I gotta say right here dawg

Yeah, turn me up, yeah

Uh

What if somebody from the Chi that was ill

Got a deal on the hottest rap label around?

But he wasn't talking 'bout coke and birds it was more like spoken word

Except he's really putting it down

And he explained the story about how blacks came from glory

And what we need to do in the game

Good dude, bad night, right place, wrong time

In the blink of a eye his whole life changed

If you could feel how my face felt, you would know how Mase felt

Thank God I ain't too cool for the safe belt

I swear to God, driver two wanna sue

I got a lawyer for the case, to keep what's in my safe safe

My dawgs couldn't tell if I

I looked like Tom Cruise on Vanilla Sky

It was televised

There's been an accident like GEICO

They thought I was burnt up like Pepsi did Michael

I must got a angel

'Cause look how death missed his ass

Unbreakable, what you thought they'd call me Mr. Glass?

Look back on my life like the Ghost of Christmas Past

Toys "R" Us where I used to spend that Christmas cash

And I still won't grow up, I'm a grown ass kid

Swear I should be locked up for stupid s- that I did

But I'm a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumph

Make music that's fire, spit my soul through the wire

You know what I'm saying?

When the doctor told me I had a, um

I was goin' to have a plate in my chin

I said, "Dawg, don't you realize I'll never make it on a plane now?

It's bad enough I got all this jewelry on"

You can't be serious, man