Tales From The Side Tales From The Side Tales The Crack Side I up in the morning, on a regular day I knew my man R, would be around my way I my hair, my teeth, suddenly I washed my face he came over my house with the drug base He saying if I take one hit of a pipe I write records to rhyme before the rest of the I said, "R, I don't do drugs, or are whack" And ain't that base drug like a drug, He said no Solo, see base is the Girls puff of base, and everybody it He left off quick and left me the and the pipe And I thought I a record a rhyme, before I reach night I if that's true, but any case I couldn't to write my record after I smoke the base He left the crib, I heard the It was my mom to watch my sister 'till she gets home I hung up the phone, with no to waste I put my in the kitchen so I could smoke the base It had a funny taste but it didn't bad I felt hot That's I got my pen and pad I wrote a it was funky I in a race the rhy that I wrote, tried to run off my page I said, "Stop rhyme" Then I the rhyme 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 fell on my and The rhyme 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 surprise I knew something was I got on the to call the cops, "what should I do?" You'd did the same if you was in my shoes As I started talking I seen the run by And hit me with a can of in my eye I on the floor look and when my vision cleared I looked around the house and see the disappeared I started to cry I said, "Oh, what my mom say?" That's when I heard a cop pulled up the driveway She came in the she took a look at the place See my sister still bleeding the knife and the She said, "You cut your sister while you were smoking 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 Crack A Tale From The 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 I seen the police When they ran in my house and shut up the 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 the trouble I was really headed for 'Till the rhyme again dressed in Santa Claus He said, "Ho Ho Ho you look great" And told me dead on my face my girl was get raped Me watching this whole thing it was my mind 'Cause my girl was getting by this musical rhyme He was sliding in my girl cried for help I grabbed a stick, you know and went for self I hit the rhyme in the and seen him drop But hen the disappeared and all I seen was cops were coming for me fast I couldn't escape Besides my girl was on the ground butt-naked yelling and One cop gave 'er a coat and "M.s are you alright?" Another cop said 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 this girl too on and just admit it I said, "Man, I didn't 'her, the rhyme did it" I this was the truth but cops thought it was a lie of y'll might even think it just a Tale From The Crack Side A From The Crack Side A Tale From The Crack A From The Crack Side The cops tried to catch me, so I ran hell I needed someone to to, someone to tell all these things were happening they where 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 ask me who did it, and I say it was a rhyme The cops buy it, this is why I 'm being chased Then my mom 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 this corner, run up block Looked my shoulders, and seen I lost the cops, then 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 and that pipe" "I a rhyme high last night and the rhyme came alive" He started to laugh, "Yeah right!" I said, "It raped my girl on the block, and cut my sister a knife" He started laughing, he it was a joke He said, "Yo Solo you had a too much to smoke" I grabbed him in the jaw, we started on the floor that's when I heard someone that was coming from the door To conclusion, enter my mind, I "Could it be the cops, or the rhyme" But before I told 'em my man pay me no mind And when the door opened up, it came the With a hammer in his hand he tried to hit me in the I ducked, but the hammer hit P I braeking then, I said this must be a nightmare He was screaming on the floor and there was everywhere I got on the phone, called the She into shock And when I up the phone, cops 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 cops kept me how did he get hit I kept trying to tell the cops "Yo, the did it" They didnt' buy it, they "Boy you're bug" "You can save that rhyme story, for the or the judge" I get there the D.A. and judge wouldn't listen They me fifteen to twenty-five years in prision take me somewhere, far state For murder, assault too and rape My family won't to me, my friends wont' see me My girl now hates me, and she don't wanna me 'Cause this all dawned on me It wasn't a rhyme it was just base So I kids and adults in this place could happen to y'll if y'll smoke crack or base So do yourself a favor stay from this Or you'll be in jail 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, Tale From The Crack Tale The Crack Side Tale From The Crack From The Crack Side PMD, up Tom J, I'm out