Tales The Crack Side Tales The Crack Side Tales From The Side I up in the morning, on a regular day I knew my man R, would be around my way I brushed my hair, my teeth, suddenly I my face Then he 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 base drug like a drug, CRACK He no Solo, see base is the shit Girls puff of base, and everybody it He left off quick and left me the and the pipe And I I write a record a rhyme, before I reach night I if that's true, but any case I couldn't wait to write my record after I the base He left the crib, I heard the It was my mom telling to my sister 'till she gets home I up the phone, with no time to waste I put my sister in the so I could smoke the base It had a funny taste but it didn't taste bad I hot when I got my pen and pad I a rhyme it was funky I in a race the rhy that I wrote, tried to run off my page I said, "Stop rhyme" Then I grabbbed the and cut the rhyme That I've running in my sight I got a mind was happy I thought the rhyme was dead Some leaf swong and caught me on the head I on my floor and The grabbed the knife And cut my little I it took her life She on the floor, blood covered the rug The rhyme was left and to my surprise I knew was bugged I got on the to call the cops, "what should I do?" did the same thing if you was in my shoes As I talking I seen the rhyme run by And hit me with a can of in my eye I fell on the look and when my vision cleared I around the house and see the rhyme disappeared I started to cry I said, "Oh, what my mom say?" That's when I heard a cop pulled up into the She came in the house she took a at the place See my sister bleeding the knife and the base She said, "You cut your sister while you were smoking 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 From The Crack A From The Crack 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 that cut my sister, who bled on my I got in the yard, out ran out in the street I had to duck behind some 'cause I seen the police When they ran in my house and shut up the I see my far coming to my house, and my jaw dropped I said, "Baby stop," but yo she on walking I knew pretty soon, the would be hawking I never the trouble I was really headed for 'Till the rhyme appeared again dressed in Claus He said, "Ho Ho Ho baby you great" And told me dead on my my girl was gonna get raped Me watching this whole it was blowing my mind my girl was getting raped by this musical rhyme He was sliding in fast my cried for help I grabbed a stick, you know and went for self I hit the rhyme in the head and him drop But hen the rhyme disappeared and all I was cops They were for me fast I couldn't escape Besides my girl was on the butt-naked yelling and raped One cop gave 'er a coat and "M.s are you alright?" Another cop said that's the kid that cut his sister with the I told them my name, I tried to They the side of my story said "Boy you insane" you raped this girl too Come on and 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 Some of y'll might even think it just a Tale From The Side A Tale From The Crack A Tale The Crack Side A Tale From The Crack The cops tried to catch me, so I ran like I needed to talk to, someone to tell 'Cause all these things were happening where blowing my mind See, I knew I didn't do this, I knew it was a 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 up this corner, run up another block over my shoulders, and seen I lost the cops, then I ran to his door, bang a ring 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 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 thought it was a He said, "Yo Solo you had a little too to smoke" I grabbed him in the jaw, we fighting 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 when I told 'em my man pay me no mind And the door opened up, it came the rhyme With a hammer in his he tried to hit me in the head I ducked, but the hit P instead I started braeking then, I said this be a nightmare He was on the floor and there was blood everywhere I got on the phone, called the 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 the hammer, again he disappeared The cops asking me how did he get hit I kept trying to tell the cops "Yo, the did it" They didnt' buy it, they said "Boy bug" "You can that rhyme story, for the lawyer or the judge" I get the D.A. and judge still wouldn't listen gave me fifteen to twenty-five years in prision They take me somewhere, far For attempted murder, assault too and My family won't talk to me, my friends see me My girl now hates me, and she don't marry me 'Cause this all dawned on me It wasn't a it was just base technique So I kids and adults in this place This could to y'll if y'll smoke crack or base So do a favor stay away 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, From The Crack Side Tale From The Crack From The Crack Side Tale From The Crack PMD, up Tom J, I'm out