Tales The Crack Side Tales From The Crack From The Crack Side I woke up in the morning, on a day I knew my man named R, would be my way I brushed my hair, my teeth, suddenly I washed my Then he came over my house the drug base He kept saying if I one hit of a pipe I write records to rhyme before the of the night I said, "R, I do drugs, or drugs are whack" And ain't that base like a drug, CRACK He said no Solo, see base is the Girls of base, and everybody does it He left off quick and left me the and the pipe And I thought I write a record a rhyme, before I night I said if that's true, but any I couldn't wait to write my record I smoke the base He the crib, I heard the telephone It was my mom telling to watch my 'till she gets home I hung up the phone, no time to waste I put my in the kitchen so I could smoke the base It had a taste but it didn't taste bad I felt hot That's I got my pen and pad I wrote a rhyme it was I in a race '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 running in my I got a mind was when I thought the rhyme was dead Some leaf and caught me square on the head I on my floor and The grabbed the knife And cut my sister I thought it took her She on the floor, blood covered the rug The was left and to my surprise I knew something was bugged I got on the phone to the cops, "what should 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 around the house and see the rhyme disappeared I to cry I said, "Oh, what would my mom say?" That's I heard a cop pulled up into the driveway She came in the she took a look at the place See my still bleeding the knife and the base She said, "You cut sister while you were smoking that shit" I said, "Mom, I cut 'er, the rhyme did it" I this was the truth, mom thought it was a lie Some of y'll might even think it's just a Tale From The Side A Tale The Crack Side A Tale The Crack Side Mom was crying, she ran in Got on the phone, and then she 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 trees 'cause I seen the police When ran in my house and shut up the block I see my girl far to my house, and my jaw dropped I said, "Baby stop," but yo she kept on I knew soon, the cops would be hawking I never knew the trouble I was really for 'Till the rhyme again dressed in Santa Claus He said, "Ho Ho Ho baby you great" And told me dead on my face my girl was get raped Me watching this whole thing it was my mind my girl was getting raped by this musical rhyme He was sliding in fast my girl cried for I grabbed a stick, you know and went for self I hit the rhyme in the head and him drop But hen the rhyme and all I seen was cops were coming for me fast I couldn't escape 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 heard the of my story They said "Boy you insane" you raped girl too Come on and admit it I said, "Man, I didn't rape 'her, the did it" I knew was the truth but cops thought it was a lie Some of y'll even think it just a Tale From The Crack Side A Tale The Crack Side A From The Crack Side A Tale From The Crack The cops tried to me, so I ran like hell I needed someone to talk to, someone to all these things were happening they where blowing my mind See, I knew I didn't do this, I it was a rhyme But who would believe me in any state of mind If ask me who did it, and I say it was a rhyme The cops didn't buy it, is why I 'm being chased my mom told the cops that I was high, on base I'm I'm sweating I suddenly that I had to get the piece out as fast as I can, so I up this corner, run up another block Looked over my shoulders, and seen I lost the cops, I ran to his door, bang like a or two He said "Solo, hey man the cops are for you" I said, "Thanks to you the base and pipe" "I wrote a rhyme high last night and the came alive" He started to laugh, "Yeah right!" I said, "It raped my on the block, and cut my sister with a knife" He laughing, he thought it was a joke He said, "Yo Solo you had a little too to smoke" I grabbed him in the jaw, we fighting on the floor Suddenly that's when I heard someone that was coming from the To conclusion, my mind, I said "Could it be the cops, or the rhyme" But before when I 'em my man pay me no mind And when the door opened up, it the rhyme With a in his hand he tried to hit me in the head I ducked, but the hammer hit P I started then, I said this must be a nightmare He was on the floor and there was blood everywhere I got on the phone, the cops She went into And when I hung up the phone, was on the block I my head out the door, said, "Help me the rhyme is in here" But then he dropped the hammer, he disappeared The kept asking me how did he get hit I kept trying to tell the cops "Yo, the did it" They didnt' buy it, said "Boy you're bug" "You can save that story, for the lawyer or the judge" I get there the D.A. and still wouldn't listen They gave me to twenty-five years in prision take me somewhere, far state For attempted murder, assault too and My family won't talk to me, my wont' see me My girl now hates me, and she wanna marry me 'Cause when all dawned on me It wasn't a rhyme it was just technique So I tell kids and adults in this This could to y'll if y'll smoke crack or base So do a favor stay away from this Or be in jail like I was yelling the rhyme did it No one will believe you, they'll you're telling a lie And your life will become another, From The Crack Side Tale From The Crack Tale From The Side Tale From The Side PMD, up Tom J, I'm out