Tales From The Crack From The Crack Side Tales From The Side I woke up in the morning, on a day I knew my man R, would be around my way I brushed my hair, my teeth, I washed my face Then he came over my house with the base He kept saying if I one hit of a pipe I write records to rhyme before the rest of the I said, "R, I do drugs, or drugs are whack" And that base drug like a drug, CRACK He said no Solo, see base is the Girls puff of base, and does it He off quick and left me the base and the pipe And I thought I a record a rhyme, before I reach night I said if true, but any case I couldn't to write my record after I smoke the base He the crib, I heard the telephone It was my mom telling to my sister 'till 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 taste but it didn't taste bad I felt hot when I got my pen and pad I a rhyme it was funky I broke in a 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 running in my I got a mind was happy I thought the rhyme was dead Some leaf swong and caught me square on the I fell on my and The rhyme the knife And cut my little I thought it her life She fell on the floor, blood the rug The was left and to my surprise I knew something was bugged I got on the to call 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 fell on the floor look and 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 when I heard a cop pulled up into the She came in the house she took a at the place See my sister still bleeding the 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 knew 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 Tale From The 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, out ran out in the street I had to behind some trees 'cause I seen the police When they ran in my house and up the block I see my girl far 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 trouble I was really for 'Till the appeared again dressed in Santa Claus He said, "Ho Ho Ho you look great" And told me dead on my face my was gonna get raped Me this whole thing it was blowing my mind 'Cause my girl was getting raped by musical rhyme He was sliding in fast my girl for help I grabbed a stick, you and Solo went for self I hit the in the head and seen him drop But hen the rhyme and all I seen was cops They were coming for me I couldn't escape Besides my girl was on the ground butt-naked and raped One cop gave 'er a and said "M.s are you alright?" Another cop said the kid that cut his sister with the knife I told them my name, I to explain They heard the side of my They said "Boy you insane" you this girl too Come on and just it I said, "Man, I rape 'her, the rhyme did it" I knew was the truth but cops 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 Side A From The Crack Side The cops tried to catch me, so I ran hell I needed someone to talk to, someone to '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 believe me in any high state of 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 the cops that I was high, on base 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 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 last night and the 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 you had a little too much to smoke" I him in the jaw, we started fighting on the floor Suddenly that's 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 when the door opened up, it came the a hammer in his hand 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 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 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 "Boy you're bug" "You can save that rhyme story, for the or the judge" I get there the D.A. and judge wouldn't listen They gave me fifteen to years in prision They me somewhere, far state For attempted murder, too and rape My family won't talk to me, my wont' see me My girl now hates me, and she don't wanna me 'Cause this all dawned on me It wasn't a rhyme it was base technique So I kids and adults in this place This could happen to y'll if y'll smoke or base So do a favor stay away from this Or you'll be in jail I was yelling the rhyme did it No one will believe you, they'll think you're a lie And your life become another, Tale From The Crack Side Tale From The Side Tale The Crack Side Tale The Crack Side PMD, up Tom J, I'm out