Stanley "BabyFace" James II was born and raised on the North Side of Long Beach, California as one of three children. He attended Wilson Classical High School. James has been writing poetry since the age of ten. His writings have been influenced Tupac Shakur, Donald Goines, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and Gabriel Frye. His goal for his poetry is to be well recognized as the voice for the streets, for those who are unheard, and to spread his life stories to everyone. The goal of this chapbook was to spread the unchained voices that have never been heard from the streets of Long Beach, California, to show from a firsthand perspective the inner dwellings of his life, both the good and the bad.