Tales The Crack Side Tales The Crack Side 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 my face Then he came my house with the drug base He kept saying if I one hit of a pipe I write to rhyme before the rest 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 puff of base, and does it He left off quick and me the base and the pipe And I I write a record a rhyme, before I reach night I said if true, but any case I wait to write my record after I smoke the base He left the crib, I the telephone It was my mom telling to watch my sister 'till she gets 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 taste bad I felt hot That's I got my pen and pad I wrote a it was funky I in a race 'Cause the rhy that I wrote, to run off my page I said, "Stop rhyme" Then I grabbbed the and cut the rhyme That seen running in my sight I got a mind was happy when I the rhyme was dead Some swong and caught me square on the head I fell on my and The grabbed the knife And cut my little I it took her life She fell on the floor, covered the rug The rhyme was left and to my surprise I knew was bugged I got on the phone to call the cops, "what I do?" You'd did the same thing if you was in my As I talking I seen the rhyme run by And hit me with a can of in my eye I fell on the floor look and my vision cleared I looked around the and see the rhyme disappeared I started to cry I said, "Oh, would my mom say?" That's when I heard a cop pulled up the driveway She came in the house she took a 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 knew this was the truth, mom it was a lie Some of y'll even think it's just a Tale From The Crack Side A From The Crack Side A Tale From The Side 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 bled on my 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 far coming 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 appeared again dressed in Santa He said, "Ho Ho Ho you look great" And told me dead on my face my girl was gonna get Me watching this whole thing it was my mind 'Cause my girl was getting by this musical rhyme He was sliding in fast my girl for help I grabbed a stick, you know and went for self I hit the rhyme in the head and seen him 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 butt-naked yelling and raped One cop 'er a coat and said "M.s are you alright?" Another cop said that's the kid that cut his with the knife I told them my name, I tried to They heard the of my story They said "Boy you insane" you raped this too Come on and just it I said, "Man, I didn't rape 'her, the did it" I knew this was the truth but thought it was a lie Some of might even think it just a Tale From The Crack Side A Tale The Crack Side A Tale The Crack Side A From The Crack Side The cops tried to me, so I ran like hell I someone to talk to, someone to tell 'Cause all these things were happening they where blowing my See, I knew I do this, I knew it was a rhyme 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 Then my mom told the cops that I was high, on I'm running I'm I suddenly that I had to get the piece out as fast as I can, so I shoot up this corner, run up block Looked over my shoulders, and I lost the cops, then I ran to his door, bang a ring or two He "Solo, hey man the cops are looking for you" I said, "Thanks to you the base and pipe" "I wrote a rhyme high last night and the came alive" He to laugh, said "Yeah right!" I said, "It my girl on the block, and cut my sister with a knife" He started laughing, he it was a joke He said, "Yo you had a little too much to smoke" I grabbed him in the jaw, we started fighting on the Suddenly that's when I heard that was coming from the door To conclusion, my mind, I said "Could it be the cops, or the rhyme" But when 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 hit P instead I started braeking then, I said must be a nightmare He was screaming on the 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 stuck my head out the door, said, "Help me the is in here" But then he the hammer, again he disappeared The cops asking me how did he get hit I trying 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 there the D.A. and judge still wouldn't They gave me fifteen to twenty-five in prision take me somewhere, far state For attempted murder, too and rape My won't talk to me, my friends wont' see me My girl now hates me, and she don't wanna me 'Cause when all dawned on me It wasn't a rhyme it was just technique So I tell kids and in this place This could happen to y'll if y'll smoke crack or So do yourself a favor stay away this Or you'll be in jail like I was yelling the did it No one will believe you, they'll think you're a lie And life will become another, Tale From The Crack Side Tale From The Crack Tale The Crack Side Tale From The Crack PMD, up Tom J, I'm out