Tales From The Side Tales The Crack Side Tales From The Side I woke up in the morning, on a day I my man named R, would be around my way I brushed my hair, my teeth, I washed my face Then he came over my house the drug base He saying if I take one hit of a pipe I write records to rhyme before the of the night I said, "R, I do drugs, or drugs are whack" And ain't that base drug like a drug, He no Solo, see base is the shit Girls of base, and everybody does it He left off quick and left me the base and the And I thought I a record a rhyme, before I reach night I said if true, but any case I couldn't wait to write my after I smoke the base He left the crib, I heard the It was my mom telling to watch my 'till she gets home I hung up the phone, with no to waste I put my sister in the kitchen so I smoke the base It had a taste but it didn't taste bad I felt hot That's I got my pen and pad I wrote a it was funky I broke in a 'Cause the rhy I wrote, tried to run off my page I said, "Stop rhyme" Then I the rhyme and cut the rhyme 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 on the head I fell on my and The rhyme grabbed the And cut my little I thought it her life She fell on the floor, covered the rug The rhyme was left and to my I knew 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 started talking I the rhyme run by And hit me a can of ravioli in my eye I on the floor look and when my vision cleared I looked around the house and see the disappeared I to cry I said, "Oh, what would my mom say?" That's when I a cop pulled up into the driveway She in the house she took a look at the place See my sister still 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 was the truth, mom thought it was a lie Some of y'll even think it's just a Tale From The Crack Side A Tale The Crack Side A Tale The Crack 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 bled on my I got in the yard, went out ran out in the I had to duck behind some 'cause I seen the police When they ran in my and shut up the block I see my girl far to my house, and my jaw dropped I said, "Baby stop," but yo she kept on I knew pretty soon, the would be hawking I never knew the trouble I was headed for the rhyme appeared again dressed in Santa Claus He said, "Ho Ho Ho you look great" And me dead on my face my girl was gonna get raped Me watching this whole thing it was blowing my 'Cause my was getting raped by this musical rhyme He was sliding in fast my girl cried for I grabbed a stick, you know and Solo for self I hit the rhyme in the and seen him drop But hen the rhyme disappeared and all I seen was They were coming for me I couldn't escape Besides my girl was on the ground butt-naked yelling and One cop 'er a coat and said "M.s are you alright?" Another cop that's the kid that cut his sister with the knife I told them my name, I tried to They the side of my story They "Boy you insane" you raped this girl too on and just admit it I said, "Man, I didn't 'her, the rhyme did it" I knew this was the but cops thought it was a lie Some of y'll might think it just a Tale From The Crack Side A From The Crack Side A From The Crack Side A Tale The Crack Side The cops tried to me, so I ran like hell I needed someone to talk to, someone to 'Cause all these things were happening they where 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 didn't buy it, this is why I 'm being Then my mom the cops that 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 up this corner, run up another block Looked over my shoulders, and seen I lost the cops, 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 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 little too to smoke" I grabbed him in the jaw, we fighting 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 when I told 'em my man pay me no mind And when the door up, it came the rhyme With a hammer in his hand he tried to hit me in the I ducked, but the hit P instead I braeking then, I said this must be a nightmare He was screaming on the floor and was blood everywhere I got on the phone, called the She went into And when I hung up the phone, cops was on the I stuck my head out the door, said, "Help me the is in here" But then he the hammer, again he disappeared The cops kept me how did he get hit I kept trying to tell the "Yo, the rhyme did it" They buy it, they said "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 twenty-five years in They me somewhere, far state For attempted murder, too and rape My won't talk to me, my friends wont' see me My girl now me, and she don't wanna marry me 'Cause when this all on me It wasn't a rhyme it was base technique So I tell kids and adults in place This could to y'll if y'll smoke crack or base So do a favor stay away from this Or be in jail like I was yelling the rhyme did it No one will believe you, they'll you're telling a lie And your life become another, Tale From The Crack Side From The Crack Side Tale The Crack Side Tale From The Crack PMD, up Tom J, I'm out