Tales From The Side Tales From The Crack Tales The Crack Side I woke up in the morning, on a day I knew my man named R, be around my way I brushed my hair, my teeth, I washed my face Then he came over my house the drug base He kept saying if I take one hit of a I write records to 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 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, before I night I said if that's true, but any I couldn't wait to my record after I smoke the base He left the crib, I the telephone It was my mom telling to my sister 'till she gets home I hung up the phone, with no to waste I put my sister in the kitchen so I could smoke the It had a funny but it didn't taste bad I felt hot That's I got my pen and pad I a rhyme 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 rhyme and cut the That I've seen running in my I got a mind was when I thought the rhyme 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 fell on the floor, blood 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 thing if you was in my shoes As I started I seen the rhyme run by And hit me a can of ravioli in my eye I fell on the floor look and when my cleared I looked around the house and see the disappeared I started to cry I said, "Oh, would 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 still the knife and the base She said, "You cut your while you were smoking that 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 The Crack Side A From 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 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 trees 'cause I seen the police they 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 pretty soon, the cops would be hawking I never knew the I was really headed for 'Till the rhyme appeared dressed in Santa Claus He said, "Ho Ho Ho baby you 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 raped by this rhyme He was sliding in my girl cried for help I grabbed a stick, you know and Solo for self I hit the rhyme in the head and him drop But hen the rhyme and all I seen was cops They coming for me fast I couldn't escape my girl was on the ground butt-naked yelling and raped One cop gave 'er a coat and "M.s are you alright?" Another cop said that's the kid cut his sister with the knife I told them my name, I tried to 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 Some of y'll might even think it just a Tale From The Side A From The Crack Side A From The Crack Side A From The Crack Side The cops to catch me, so I ran like hell I needed to talk to, someone to tell 'Cause all these things were happening where blowing my mind See, I knew I do this, I knew it was a rhyme But who would believe me in any high state of If they ask me who did it, and I say it was a The cops buy it, this is why I 'm being chased Then my mom told the cops I was high, on base I'm I'm sweating I suddenly knew that I had to get the piece out as 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, like a ring or two He said "Solo, hey man the cops are for you" I said, "Thanks to you the base and pipe" "I wrote a 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 with a knife" He started laughing, he 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, enter my mind, I "Could it be the cops, or the rhyme" But before when I told 'em my man pay me no And when the door opened up, it the rhyme With a hammer in his hand he to hit me in the head I ducked, but the hit P instead I started braeking then, I this must be a nightmare He was on the floor and there was blood everywhere I got on the phone, the cops She went 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, again he The cops asking me how did he get hit I kept trying to the cops "Yo, the rhyme did it" They didnt' buy it, they said "Boy bug" "You can that rhyme story, for the lawyer or the judge" I get there the D.A. and judge wouldn't listen They gave me to twenty-five years in prision take me somewhere, far state For attempted murder, assault too and My family talk to me, my friends wont' see me My girl now me, and she don't wanna marry me 'Cause when all dawned on me It wasn't a it was just base technique So I tell kids and adults in this This could happen to y'll if y'll smoke crack or 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 Side From The Crack Side Tale From The Side PMD, up Tom J, I'm out