[00:00.27]You know
[00:00.91]What you gotta understand is that it's a drug
[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 *******
[00:12.68]
[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
[00:27.85]
[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
[00:33.42]
[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 drug 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]*****s 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]*****  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 ******* in the mouth of a model
[01:21.46]Take your time  baby  don't spit  just swallow
[01:23.69]
[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 drug 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
[01:43.60]
[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 *****s 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  *******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
[02:26.33]
[02:27.05]Down south yeah  they on me  kid
[02:29.05]I'm the *******t lettin baseheads and zombies live
[02:32.27]BASE
[02:32.92]A more brutal form of ******* known as crack
[02:35.58]Is increasingly penetrating
[02:37.23]Every part of our social strand
[02:38.79]
[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 drugs reaching a fever pitch
[02:49.14]Law enforcement agencies are scrambling to rid
[02:51.95]Their communities of this destructive drug
[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  *****s on the streets keep eyin me
[03:02.89]Till I Stuart Scott a *****  y'all peep me sideways
[03:05.26]
[03:06.34]Crack is good coke  good ****
[03:08.34]Is good money  thick broads on big boats
[03:11.21]
[03:12.06]Big business  big Benzes
[03:14.53]26 rims lead to never ending sentences
[03:17.22]
[03:18.09]I'm lookin clean in a box
[03:19.69]With a fresh line-up  *****  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