Aye is the mic on  C’mon man  I woke up this mornin’   Thinking a lot bout my life and all that   Thinking bout the goods  And some of the bads u know  So I grab my brother and wrote our life novel  Her it go    [CHORUS]  This is the chapters  The before and after  The good the bad the pain and disaster  The chapters  Don’t want to speak my mind  Bout my hard knocked life in this book of mine     This is the chapters  The before and after  The good the bad the pain and disaster  The chapters  Don’t want to speak my mind  Bout this hard knocked life in this book of mine     (ROYAL)  I woke up pops was gone  Young and confused in a broken home  Motel skipping motel living   Rooms about the size of a hotel kitchen  (Hold on) I been around the block  The year of my life been a round my pops  The years of my life   I remember nights  Home this with my brother on December nights   Then mom got sick  Lost her head  A PHD woman with a lost career  6 months to live she could barely walk  All my friend call her dumb for the way she talk  So I thank God she alive today  I sit the night I pray she don’t pass away  But that incident   Grew up in my mind at that time that my heart had innocence   So this so that  My only cats saying Ro this smoke that   Life on the room track  At school with the rich  Still broke kicked out of there for the ish that I pitched  Back to the block  I saw drug abuse   Teenage rape that happened a lot  2006 the time had come we were signed  This is story is chapter 1    (Listen)    [CHORUS]  This is the chapters  The before and after  The good the bad the pain and disaster  The chapters  Don’t want to speak my mind  Bout my hard knocked life in this book of mine     This is the chapters  The before and after  The good the bad the pain and disaster  The chapters  Don’t want to speak my mind  Bout this hard knocked life in this book of mine    (LAZE)  Now we closer to our goal   But still not quite there  Friends grew up   Their ma  Still cry in tears  Couple lost dreams  But I knew some way to work  That’s as how false it seems  05 came   The year passed away  My best friend had two on the way  Into abortion that was the best for him  But in the miss I lost respect for him (sawrry dawg)  After that my nigga Jay had a seed  His baby momma refused to take him back  No Job he can’t make a stack  Anotha victim of the street corner  He turned to rap  How to walk  Before books of life  Still broke  Living ‘round the rich  So I pitched  Went to school but I ditched  Kicked when I was 13  Got a grip (ya happy) (oh well)  Back to the chapters  This is the truth  I’m giving you before and after  From my older brotha hooked on the pipe  My only role model snortin on the white  This man of the household   I got out so  I was young I was still without dough  Is only right that I rap the truth  So there it go our life that’s chapter 2    [CHORUS]  This is the chapters  The before and after  The good the bad the pain and disaster  The chapters  Don’t want to speak my mind  Bout my hard knocked life in this book of mine     This is the chapters  The before and after  The good the bad the pain and disaster  The chapters  Don’t want to speak my mind  Bout this hard knocked life in this book of mine     This is the chapters    So there it go man  The before   The after  You know all in between  Take out howeva positive you want but negative don’t  But we had to give it to ya’ll  Oh yea trust me there a lot of more to come  Stay tune