Artist: J-Live
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
The Best Part
Year:
Tracks: 24
Brooklyn MC J-Live outset garnered notice with the spill of his 1995 single "Bragging Writes." Delivering his thoughtful lyrics with confidence and informality, J-Live's rapping was inviolable and his soul-inflected grooves immediately appealed to fans of metro hip-hop. A twelvemonth later he followed up with some other hit, "Hush the Crowd," and started to bring forth a palpable buzz. With tracks produced by luminaries such as Prince Paul, DJ Premier, and Pete Rock, the outlet of J-Live's full-length debut The Best Part was hotly awaited and the future looked promising for the ascendent MC. At this point, though, J-Live was incrust by a host of troubles. Amidst invariant label shambling and plagued by a series of illegal bootlegs, the spill of The Best Part was delayed for five age. There was some talk that J-Live was behind some of the bootlegs -- a few of which were of highly high quality -- and the ongoing saga became something of an subway system caption. In the meanwhile, J-Live worked as an one-eighth grade instructor in Brunswick and continued to prettify and refine his debut. He unbroken good company, making cameo appearances on hard albums like Handsome Boy Modeling School's So How's Your Girl? and J Rawls' The Essence of J Rawls. The Best Part finally enjoyed its official release in the fall of 2001. All of the Above followed one year later on, and 2003 brought a bipartite mini-LP-tribute to his early days, Always Has Been and Always Will Be.
