Longevity - J-Live.mp3

[00:20.76]With or without the mic, when my mind gets phonetic
[00:23.43]The mouth gets kinetically energetic, its simple as your alphabetics
[00:27.12]My words you mark and never mock, long as my name has been Jean-Jacques
[00:29.91]I keep you open like your pupils in the dark
[00:31.89]Dogs bark, at the gate, to negate what I create
[00:34.65]Still I write rhymes, regardless of the stop signs
[00:36.87]In tough times or nice times, for shade or for sunshine
[00:39.48]Throughout time, all times have been the right time, to recite mine to mankind
[00:42.84]Who wants mine, come get mine, you best combine minds
[00:45.12]Before you cross that fine line and say who is so called inclined
[00:47.88]Press rewind, you'll find if you're blind, you can't see
[00:50.61]How this defines and redefines M-U-S-I-C
[00:53.31]Who I be? H-I-P H-O-P
[00:55.29]You know we as them strangers that some wish they could be or not to be
[00:58.56]Impossibly, as it transcends from the pen to the key
[01:01.62]To the mind, you will find an emcee, good enough to envy
[01:04.83]As long as I'm alive, it'll send me to that next shit
[01:07.59]That some just can't get wit' or F with
[01:09.90]Since my alma mater told you that "it don't quit" kid
[01:12.48]It don't start until it all seems to be so easy
[01:15.33]Chorus:
[01:25.02]Easy
[01:25.17]Emcee is my ambition
[01:30.18]The incredible, lyrical and
[01:31.68]Original
[01:31.92]Emcee is my ambition
[01:36.12]Who in their right minds thinks they can put a stop to hip hop
[01:38.88]If it don't stop till I stop and I don't stop till it stop
[01:41.55]Fake emcees that soak props like rag mops must get dropped
[01:44.22]Risin' to the top of the bottom, that's how I got 'em
[01:46.68]If your heart's glass ceiling is my mind's glass floor
[01:49.26]Whose style do you suppose reaches higher plateaus
[01:51.84]While you kick those sellout flows in hopes to sell out shows
[01:54.75]But get your spots taken easy as the wind blows
[01:57.60]J remains reppin' all the 'heads whole steppin'
[02:00.09]Whose style shall be the illest with or without the weapon
[02:02.73]With or without a doubt, I maintain with just the facts
[02:05.46]Improving skills with or without the record contracts
[02:08.04]And yet still
[02:08.82]If that be's the case my presence was a gift in its own right
[02:12.12]So I remain strong
[02:13.26]Long as
[02:13.80]Hands cap on
[02:14.82]Snare drums tap on
[02:16.17]J's word stays bond
[02:17.49]And cornballs who rap on get snapped on
[02:19.50]Live lyrics will be just that
[02:21.15]Just phat, just right for all of those who feel my flavor's tight
[02:24.51]I'm dedicated to the flow
[02:26.10]The only way the true lyricist could ever make it seem so easy
[02:29.46]Chorus
[02:50.13]As I reserve the right to renovate the Raw Shack with lyrical scaffolds
[02:53.85]Heads are baffled as tracks are traveled
[02:55.80]You're unraveled or should I say "unrapped"
[02:58.05]In this world where mics get checked and all cornballs get slapped
[03:01.29]Alright rhymes get rewritten, no bullshittin'
[03:04.02]Perfected, J-L run point and stays on it
[03:06.69]Mastered styles look back and laugh at first drafts
[03:09.54]Freestyles make toes wanna paydownponit
[03:12.06]Do anything but lay down on it
[03:14.13]Anesthesiatics , get trapped like rats in attics to craftmatics
[03:18.12]But then transform like skilled wax to insomniacs with my name in your almanacs
[03:22.62]In fact, I let my glory be that never-ending story
[03:25.41]Like those that still inspire since seven albums before me
[03:28.02]Cause yo, from this old school comes a new degree
[03:30.60]Yet to be mastered till longevity seems to be so easy