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