Tales The Crack Side Tales From The Crack Tales From The Crack 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 Then he came over my house with the drug He kept if I take one hit of a pipe I write to rhyme before the rest of the night 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 of base, and everybody does it He left off quick and me the base and the pipe And I thought I write a record a rhyme, before I reach I said if true, but any case I couldn't wait to my record after I smoke the base He left the crib, I heard the It was my mom telling to watch my sister she gets home I hung up the phone, no time to waste I put my sister in the so I could smoke the base It had a funny but it didn't taste bad I felt hot when I got my pen and pad I wrote a it was funky I broke in a 'Cause the rhy that I wrote, tried to run off my I said, "Stop rhyme" Then I grabbbed the rhyme and cut the That I've seen in my sight I got a was happy when I thought the rhyme was dead Some leaf swong and caught me square on the I fell on my and The grabbed the knife And cut my little I thought it her life She fell on the floor, blood the rug The rhyme was left and to my surprise I knew was bugged I got on the phone to the cops, "what should I do?" You'd did the same if you was in my shoes As I started talking I the rhyme run by And hit me a can of ravioli in my eye I on the floor look and when my vision cleared I looked the house and see the rhyme disappeared I to cry I said, "Oh, what would my mom say?" That's when I heard a cop pulled up into the She came in the house she took a look at the See my sister still bleeding the knife and the She said, "You cut your sister you were smoking that shit" I said, "Mom, I didn't cut 'er, the did it" I knew this was the truth, mom it was a lie Some of y'll might even it's just a Tale From The Crack Side A Tale The Crack Side A Tale From The Side Mom was crying, she ran in Got on the phone, and then she started crying to the So I ran out the door, and I for The rhyme cut my sister, who bled on my floor I got in the yard, went out ran out in the I had to duck behind some trees 'cause I seen the When ran in my house and shut up the block I see my far coming 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 never knew the I was really headed 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 was gonna get raped Me this whole thing it was blowing my mind 'Cause my was getting raped by this musical rhyme He was in fast my girl cried for help I grabbed a stick, you know and Solo went for 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 I couldn't escape Besides my was on the ground butt-naked yelling and raped One cop 'er a coat and said "M.s are you alright?" Another cop said the kid that cut his sister with the knife I them my name, I tried to explain heard the side of my story They said "Boy you insane" you raped this too Come on and admit it I said, "Man, I rape 'her, the rhyme did it" I knew this was the truth but thought it was a lie Some of y'll might even it just a Tale From The Crack Side A Tale The Crack Side A Tale From The Crack A Tale From The Side The cops tried to catch me, so I ran hell I needed someone to talk to, to tell 'Cause all these were happening they where blowing my mind See, I knew I do this, I knew it was a rhyme But who would believe me in any high of mind If ask me who did it, and I say it was a rhyme The didn't buy it, this is why I 'm being chased Then my mom told the cops that I was high, on I'm I'm sweating I suddenly knew that I had to get the 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, 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 wrote a rhyme high last and the rhyme came alive" He to laugh, said "Yeah right!" I said, "It my girl 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 started fighting on the Suddenly that's when I heard someone that was coming the door 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 opened up, it came the rhyme With a in his hand he tried to hit me in the head I ducked, but the hammer hit P I started braeking then, I 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 I hung 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 the hammer, again he disappeared The cops kept me how did he get hit I trying to tell the cops "Yo, the rhyme did it" They didnt' buy it, said "Boy you're bug" "You can save rhyme story, for the lawyer or the judge" I get there the D.A. and judge still wouldn't 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 marry me when this all dawned on me It wasn't a it was just base technique 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 away from this Or you'll be in jail like I was the rhyme did it No one will believe you, they'll think telling a lie And your life will another, Tale From The Crack Side Tale From The Crack Tale From The Side From The Crack Side PMD, up Tom J, I'm out