I Am CRACK-Fat Joe

[ti:I Am Crack] [ar:Fat Joe] [al:The Darkside, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.27]You know [00:00.91]What you gotta understand is that it's a ** [00:03.16]That affects the brain chemistry of the user [00:04.94]And it causes things like paranoia euphoria [00:07.71]Insomnia loss of appetite [00:09.92]And this really insatiable craving for more coc*ine [00:13.91]People who smoke crack they get this immediate [00:16.20]And intense release of dopamin in the brain [00:18.86]And once those dopamin levels plummet after [00:20.98]Just a few minutes [00:22.24]The smoker feels compelled to take another hit [00:24.42]Just to ease the feelings of depression and sadness [00:29.00]Good afternoon [00:29.71]We're reporting live in the streets of the Bronx today [00:31.76]Chronicling a deadly epidemic sweeping the nation [00:34.11]A wave of violent crimes [00:35.14]Have been linked to chronic addiction [00:36.52]To and distribution of a ** called [00:38.51]CRACK [00:39.41]They heat me up I can see the top bubble waitin for me [00:43.09]Investigators sendin snitches for me [00:45.40]Sold out lines around the block [00:47.76]Niggas waitin for a whiff of that base and that rock [00:50.51]Chicago Bulls fitted they callin me red top [00:53.31]You can find me in Humboldt Park soon as it gets dark [00:56.08]Or even in the daylight even though it ain't right [00:59.25]I'm outside the church preyin on some saved lives [01:01.91]Or sittin on a scale good enough to taste [01:04.67]I'm better than a protein shake to lose weight [01:07.40]Ni**a no doubt I'm the hardest in the game [01:10.19]It's the Rock I ain't talkin Jay Biggs and Dame [01:13.04]I'm talkin bling-bling crack pipe and a collar [01:15.79]I make bums fight to wash cars for a dollar [01:18.99]A glass dick in the mouth of a model [01:21.46]Take your time baby don't spit just swallow [01:24.62]BASE [01:25.31]Downtown Miami we've described on the scene [01:27.56]A intense gun battle between [01:28.94]Police and known ** dealers [01:30.12]From both the local area and New York City [01:33.16]The shooting's been ongoing since [01:34.25]Early this afternoon [01:35.19]And sources report that so far as many as [01:37.66]Nine people have been killed or wounded [01:39.90]This is just another chapter in what has been [01:41.68]Miami's epic struggle in the war against [01:44.93] I - I'm just a reporter [01:46.96]In the '80s I made so many premature babies [01:49.76]Put niggas in Mercedes strapped with 380's [01:52.39]Uh who you think made Nino smarter [01:55.17]If it wasn't for me it wouldn't be no Carter [01:58.09]Down in DC yeah sh*t got scary [02:00.85]Almost lost my political connect with Mayor Barry [02:03.73]They mix me with embalming fluid it's unreal [02:06.70]And Jada said he cooked me on a Foreman Grill [02:09.69]Turn a happy home into a stash house [02:12.07]They can smoke me all night until they pass out [02:15.06]I'm cool with pops and I'm cool with moms [02:17.70]But they don't know that we cool [02:19.20]Me and you share a bond [02:20.93]Franklins Jacksons get me to actin a fool [02:24.05]I transform into a bird on the moon [02:27.05]Down south yeah they on me kid [02:29.05]I'm the sh*t lettin baseheads and zombies live [02:32.27]BASE [02:32.92]A more brutal form of coc*ine known as crack [02:35.58]Is increasingly penetrating [02:37.23]Every part of our social strand [02:39.64]Classified as a Schedule I substance by the DEA [02:43.05]Crack is wreaking havoc on [02:44.42]The inner city and the suburbs [02:46.95]With the war on *** reaching a fever pitch [02:49.14]Law enforcement agencies are scrambling to rid [02:51.95]Their communities of this destructive ** [02:54.54]CL 63 with the seats reclinin [02:57.18]From the cracks we slingin and the keys we flinin [02:59.94]Keep iron on me niggas on the streets keep eyin me [03:02.89]Till I Stuart Scott a ni**a y'all peep me sideways [03:06.34]Crack is good coke good d**e [03:08.34]Is good money thick broads on big boats [03:12.06]Big business big Benzes [03:14.53]26 rims lead to never ending sentences [03:18.09]I'm lookin clean in a box [03:19.69]With a fresh line-up ni**a your time's up [03:22.65]The dumps where they find you mangled and tied up [03:25.47]50 keys in the stash gets the streets dried up [03:28.20]Short a few guns need a couple of pies [03:31.36]You see a boat I run it right by [03:33.92]Can you feel it nothin can save ya [03:36.90]It's crack baby minus the incubators [03:40.24]I Am Crack - Fat Joe