Tales From The Crack From The Crack Side Tales From The Side I up in the morning, on a regular day I knew my man named R, be around my way I brushed my hair, my teeth, suddenly I my face Then he over my house with the drug base He kept saying if I take one hit of a I write to rhyme before the rest of the night I said, "R, I don't do drugs, or are whack" And ain't that base drug a drug, CRACK He no Solo, see base is the shit Girls puff of base, and everybody it He off quick and left me the base and the pipe And I thought I write a record a rhyme, I reach night I said if that's true, but any I couldn't wait to write my record 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 time to I put my sister in the kitchen so I smoke the base It had a funny taste but it 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" I grabbbed the rhyme and cut the rhyme That I've running in my sight I got a was happy when I thought the rhyme was dead leaf swong and caught me square on the head I fell on my and The grabbed the knife And cut my little I thought it took her She fell on the floor, covered the rug The rhyme was 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 thing if you was in my 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 when my cleared I looked around the house and see the rhyme I started to cry I said, "Oh, what my mom say?" That's when I heard a cop pulled up the driveway She came in the house she a look at the place See my sister still 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 this was the truth, mom thought it was a lie Some of y'll might even think 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 then she started crying to the 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 some trees I seen the police they ran in my house and shut up the block I see my girl far coming to my house, and my jaw 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 the rhyme appeared again dressed in Santa Claus He said, "Ho Ho Ho baby you great" And told me on my face my girl was gonna get raped Me watching this whole thing it was my mind 'Cause my girl was getting raped by musical rhyme He was sliding in my girl cried for help I a stick, you know and Solo went for self I hit the rhyme in the head and him drop But hen the disappeared and all I seen was cops They were coming for me fast I escape Besides my girl was on the ground butt-naked yelling and 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 them my name, I tried to explain They heard the side of my said "Boy you insane" you raped this girl too Come on and admit it I said, "Man, I didn't 'her, the rhyme did it" I knew this was the truth but thought it was a lie Some of y'll might even think it a Tale From The Crack Side A Tale From The Side A From The Crack Side A Tale From The Side The tried to catch me, so I ran like hell I needed someone to talk to, to tell all these things were happening they where blowing my mind See, I I didn't do this, I knew it was a rhyme But who would believe me in any high of mind If they ask me who did it, and I say it was a The cops didn't buy it, this is why I 'm chased Then my mom told the 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 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 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 raped my girl on the block, and cut my with a knife" He started laughing, he thought it was a He said, "Yo Solo you had a 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 before when I 'em my man pay me no mind 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 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 shock And I hung up the phone, cops was on the block I stuck my out the door, said, "Help me the rhyme is in here" But he dropped the hammer, again he disappeared The cops asking me how did he get hit I kept trying to tell the cops "Yo, the did it" They didnt' buy it, said "Boy you're bug" "You can save that rhyme story, for the or the judge" I get there the D.A. and still wouldn't listen They gave me fifteen to twenty-five in prision take me somewhere, far state For murder, assault too and rape My family talk to me, my friends wont' see me My girl now hates me, and she don't marry me when this all dawned on me It wasn't a rhyme it was base technique So I tell kids and in this place This happen to y'll if y'll smoke crack or base So do yourself a favor stay away from Or you'll be in like I was yelling the rhyme did it No one will believe you, they'll you're telling a lie And your life will become another, From The Crack Side Tale From The Crack Tale From The Side Tale The Crack Side PMD, up Tom J, I'm out