i'm the badest of the badest of the badest of the bad crackhead basehead i don't know how i got so lost something in my mind and i pay the cost yes i tried to hide away oh the truth i did not want to face like ice t says "you played yourself" me and you can't blame no one else i don't want your sympathy your sympathy is no good to me better keep on fearing me... better keep the fear if you want to understand come into my world come take my hand if you try to run away away from yourself you can never win the race freaks and fiends are everywhere they lost their way/lost their cares if you try to run away away from yourself you can never win the race this is more than trenchtown rock rock is something smoked as well as pot concern is shown as it gets a grip away from the ghetto onto the rich chuck d would say "i'm a basehead i got to get away i got to face it you can't trust me i can't trust myself yes i got to learn to be true to myself here come them rocks again falling in my head messing up my head here come them bones again rolling in my head messing up my head let me smoke my crack pipe now...