Tales The Crack Side Tales From The Side Tales The Crack Side I up in the morning, on a regular day I knew my man named R, be around my way I brushed my hair, my teeth, I washed my face Then he came over my house with the base He kept if I take one hit of a pipe I write to rhyme before the rest of the night I said, "R, I do drugs, or drugs are whack" And ain't that base drug like a drug, He said no Solo, see base is the Girls puff of base, and does it He off quick and left me the base and the pipe And I thought I write a record a rhyme, before I reach I said if that's true, but any I couldn't wait to write my after I smoke the base He left the crib, I heard the It was my mom telling to watch my 'till she gets home I hung up the phone, with no to waste I put my sister in the kitchen so I could the base It had a funny taste but it taste bad I felt hot That's I got my pen and pad I a rhyme it was funky I broke in a 'Cause the rhy I wrote, tried to run off my page I said, "Stop rhyme" Then I grabbbed the and cut the rhyme That I've seen in my sight I got a mind was when I thought the rhyme was dead Some leaf swong and caught me square on the I on my floor and The grabbed the knife And cut my sister I it took her life She on the floor, blood covered the rug The rhyme was left and to my I knew something was bugged I got on the phone to call the cops, "what I do?" You'd did the same thing if you was in my As I started talking I seen the run by And hit me a can of ravioli in my eye I fell on the look and when my vision cleared I looked around the house and see the rhyme I to cry I said, "Oh, what would my mom say?" That's when I a cop pulled up into the driveway She came in the she took a look at the place See my sister still the knife and the base She said, "You cut your sister while you were that shit" I said, "Mom, I didn't cut 'er, the did it" I this was the truth, mom thought it was a lie Some of y'll even think it's just a Tale From The Crack Side A From The Crack Side A Tale From The Crack Mom was crying, she ran in Got on the phone, and she started crying to the cops So I ran out the door, and I for The rhyme that cut my sister, who on my floor I got in the yard, out ran out in the street I had to duck behind some trees 'cause I the police When they ran in my house and up the block I see my girl far to my house, and my jaw dropped I said, "Baby stop," but yo she on walking I knew soon, the cops would be hawking I knew the trouble I was really headed for 'Till the appeared again dressed in Santa Claus He said, "Ho Ho Ho you look great" And told me dead on my my girl was gonna get raped Me watching whole thing it was blowing my mind 'Cause my girl was getting raped by this musical He was in fast my girl cried for help I a stick, you know and Solo went for self I hit the rhyme in the and seen him drop But hen the rhyme disappeared and all I seen was They were coming for me fast I couldn't Besides my girl was on the butt-naked yelling and raped One cop 'er a coat and said "M.s are you alright?" cop said that's the kid that cut his sister with the knife I told my name, I tried to explain They the side of my story They said "Boy you insane" you raped girl too Come on and admit it I said, "Man, I rape 'her, the rhyme did it" I this was the truth but cops thought it was a lie Some of y'll might even it just a Tale From The Crack Side A Tale From The Crack A From The Crack Side A Tale The Crack Side The tried to catch me, so I ran like hell I needed someone to to, someone to tell 'Cause all these things were happening they blowing my mind See, I knew I do this, I knew it was a rhyme But who would me in any high state of mind If they ask me who did it, and I say it was a The didn't buy it, this is why I 'm being chased my mom told the cops that I was high, on base I'm running I'm I knew that I had to get the piece out as fast as I can, so I shoot up corner, run up another block Looked over my shoulders, and seen I the cops, then I ran to his door, like a ring or two He said "Solo, hey man the cops are for you" I said, "Thanks to you the base and pipe" "I wrote a high last night and the rhyme came alive" He to laugh, said "Yeah right!" I said, "It raped my on the block, and cut my sister with a knife" He started laughing, he it was a joke He said, "Yo Solo you had a too much to smoke" I him in the jaw, we started fighting on the floor Suddenly that's when I heard someone was coming from the door To conclusion, my mind, I said "Could it be the cops, or the rhyme" But before when I told 'em my man pay me no And the door opened up, it came the rhyme With a hammer in his hand he tried to hit me in the I ducked, but the hit P instead I braeking then, I said this must be a nightmare He was on the floor and there was blood everywhere I got on the phone, called the She went shock And when I hung up the phone, cops was on the I my head out the door, said, "Help me the rhyme is in here" But he dropped the hammer, again he disappeared The kept asking me how did he get hit I kept trying to tell the "Yo, the rhyme did it" They didnt' buy it, they said "Boy bug" "You can save that rhyme story, for the or the judge" I get there the D.A. and judge wouldn't listen They gave me to twenty-five years in prision take me somewhere, far state For attempted murder, too and rape My family won't talk to me, my friends see me My girl now hates me, and she don't wanna me 'Cause when all dawned on me It wasn't a rhyme it was just base So I tell kids and adults in place This could happen to y'll if y'll smoke or base So do yourself a favor stay from this Or you'll be in like I was yelling the rhyme did it No one will believe you, they'll think telling a lie And your life will become another, Tale From The Crack Tale From The Side Tale The Crack Side Tale The Crack Side PMD, up Tom J, I'm out