Tales The Crack Side Tales From The Side Tales The Crack Side I up in the morning, on a regular day I my man named R, would be around my way I brushed my hair, my teeth, 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 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 is the shit Girls of base, and everybody does it He left off and left me the base and the pipe And I thought I write a record a rhyme, I reach night I if that's true, but any case I couldn't wait to write my record after I the base He the crib, I heard the telephone It was my mom telling to watch my sister she gets home I hung up the phone, with no time to 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 That's I got my pen and pad I wrote a rhyme it was I in a race the rhy that I wrote, tried to run off my page I said, "Stop rhyme" Then I grabbbed the rhyme and cut the That I've seen in my sight I got a mind was happy when I thought the 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 thought it took her She on the floor, blood covered the rug The rhyme was left and to my surprise I something was bugged I got on the phone to the cops, "what should I do?" You'd did the 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 floor 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 I heard a cop pulled up into the driveway She in the house 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 knew this was the truth, mom it was a lie Some of might even think 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 crying to the cops So I ran out the door, and I for The that cut my sister, who bled on my floor I got in the yard, went out ran out in the I had to duck behind trees 'cause I seen the police When they ran in my and shut up the block I see my girl far coming to my house, and my jaw I said, "Baby stop," but yo she kept on I knew pretty soon, the cops would be 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 on my face my girl was gonna get raped Me watching this whole thing it was blowing my 'Cause my girl was getting raped by musical rhyme He was sliding in my girl cried for help I grabbed a stick, you know and went for self I hit the in the head and seen him drop But hen the disappeared and all I seen was cops They were coming for me fast I couldn't Besides my girl was on the ground yelling and raped One cop gave 'er a 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 side of my They said "Boy you insane" you this girl too on and just 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 think it just a Tale The Crack Side A Tale From The Crack A Tale From The Side A From 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 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 didn't buy it, this is why I 'm being chased Then my mom told the cops I was high, on base I'm running I'm I suddenly knew I had to get the piece out as fast as I can, so I shoot up corner, run up another block Looked my shoulders, and seen I lost the cops, then I ran to his door, bang like a or two He "Solo, hey man the cops are looking 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 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 too much to smoke" I grabbed him in the jaw, we started on the floor Suddenly that's when I someone that was coming from the door To conclusion, my mind, I said "Could it be the cops, or the rhyme" But before 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 hammer hit P I started braeking then, I said this must be a He was screaming on the floor and there was blood I got on the phone, the cops She into 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 then he dropped the hammer, he disappeared The cops kept me how did he get hit I kept to tell the cops "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 the D.A. and judge still wouldn't listen They gave me fifteen to twenty-five years in They take me somewhere, far For attempted murder, too and rape My family won't talk to me, my wont' see me My now hates me, and she don't wanna marry me 'Cause when this all on me It a rhyme it was just base technique So I kids and adults in this place This could happen to y'll if y'll smoke crack or So do yourself a favor stay away from Or you'll be in jail like I was the rhyme did it No one will believe you, they'll think you're a lie And your life will become another, From The Crack Side Tale From The Side Tale From The Crack Tale From The Side PMD, up Tom J, I'm out