Kanye West "Through the Wire"

West recorded his breakthrough hit about the near-fatal car crash he suffered and the way it forced him to reevaluate his life just two weeks after the accident occurred -- while his broken jaw was still wired shut. Wryly rapping about living on Ensure and pancake syrup, West recounts nearly dying at the same hospital as Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, the reconstructive surgery he endured, and his efforts to recover both his physical health and career prospects to the tune of Chaka Khan's "Through the Fire."