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Get The Third

from The Best Part by J-LIVE

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  • The Best Part (2xLP Red Vinyl) Autographed
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    J-Live's critically acclaimed, historic debut album. Featuring a dream team production lineup of, DJ Premier, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, DJ Spinna, Grap Luva, Probe Rocket, and 88 Keys. With classic stand out tracks like, "Them That's Not", "Don't Play", "Vampire Hunter J", "Wax Paper", "Timeless", the title track "The Best Part" and more. Now available in this special double red viny limited edition.

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  • The Best Part 2X LP Original 1999 "Bootleg" Pressing (Signed Promo Jacket)
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    J-Live's critically acclaimed, historic debut album. Featuring a dream team production lineup of, DJ Premier, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, DJ Spinna, Grap Luva, Probe Rocket, and 88 Keys. With classic stand out tracks like, "Them That's Not", "Don't Play", "Vampire Hunter J", "Wax Paper", "Timeless", the title track "The Best Part" and more.

    Super rare first pressing from 1999. Live 99. Signed!

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    J-Live's critically acclaimed, historic debut album. Featuring a dream team production lineup of, DJ Premier, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, DJ Spinna, Grap Luva, Probe Rocket, and 88 Keys. With classic stand out tracks like, "Them That's Not", "Don't Play", "Vampire Hunter J", "Wax Paper", "Timeless", the title track "The Best Part" and more.

    Before moving from New York to Georgia, and changing the label name to Mortier Music, J-Live's imprint was called 3TP, Triple Threat Productions. These are the firsts of an old pressing of a classic. A rare SIGNED offering from the crates of The Live One.

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    J-Live's critically acclaimed, historic debut album. Featuring a dream team production lineup of, DJ Premier, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, DJ Spinna, Grap Luva, Probe Rocket, and 88 Keys. With classic stand out tracks like, "Them That's Not", "Don't Play", "Vampire Hunter J", "Wax Paper", "Timeless", the title track "The Best Part" and more.

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Back by popular demand, J-live's debut album in CD format. With new cover design from the original photo shoots. A special twist on a classic album.

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Never before released on tape... Until now! J-live's debut album in cassette format for collectors, boom boxes and vintage car stereos. With new cover design from the original photo shoots. A special twist on a classic album.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Best Part via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $20 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    J-Live's critically acclaimed, historic debut album. Featuring a dream team production lineup of, DJ Premier, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, DJ Spinna, Grap Luva, Probe Rocket, and 88 Keys. With classic stand out tracks like, "Them That's Not", "Don't Play", "Vampire Hunter J", "Wax Paper", "Timeless", the title track "The Best Part" and more. Now available in this special double red viny limited edition.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Best Part via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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lyrics

Get The Third

For the
First third, I’d have to borrow three words from Stevie for the
Issue. For what it’s worth I’m callin’ it official. To
Live and die for you is to live and die with you, if
What we got ain’t superficial, or artificial. I’ll
Feel at home with you if I share my dome with you.
Develop your mind to understand mine, it grown
With you. It’s hypothetical, I have yet to meet you. But
All it takes is time well spent alone with you. If
One pawn could move along and reach the eighth rank, and
Resurrect, with the grace of a queen, she would receive and
Reflect, knowin’ just what I mean, when I say that I’ll
Protect my useful land like the fearless grown man that I
Am. With a plan to expand that’s painstaking. Like
Feedin’ food for thought and regulatin’ mental bacon.
Correctin’ each other when we’re mistaken and debatin’ turns to
Arguing but up makin’ leads to the best
Earthquakin’. But still in all I need no reminder, that
God’ll be the maker and owner but not the finder.
So in this wilderness I will preserve the best part. For
Each Queen I meet I make it born from the start when I...

TELL YOU LIKE THIS YOU CAN GET THE THIRD
EYE OR THE LEG, OR THE LEG OR THE FINGER IF PREFERRED
I KNOW WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND AND SIS YOU NEEDN’T SAY
A WORD
EYE OR THE LEG OR THE BIRD.
REPEAT

I set the
Speed at which you twist upon your axis. From changing
your
Thoughts to turnin’ over on the mattress. The fact is the
Culture that I practice prescribes me the father of the
Civil, so most motherfuckers lack this. But more often than
Not, the kind of woman I attract is, looking to
Discover just another piece of steel. And you can test my
Hardness on Moh’s scale or Rockwell, but see I can’t be
Trapped by your magnetic field. To bring it down to
Earth I’m talkin’ bout your sex appeal. You got the goods
Mommy and you know I know the deal. Not even to
Concern with who’s the last or next to feel cause the sword that I
Wield sports a lubricated shield. The only problem
Is you never take the time to build. And then you got the
Nerve to say I treat you like a freak. I try to chill and
Conversate with you but besides don’t stop and that’s my
Spot yo we hardly even speak. So get to know the
Mind behind the dick that I’m slingin’. Next time when I’m
Done yo, try not o fall asleep. But still in all I
Really cant complain about your brain cause you the first on my
Mind when the time comes to creep. That’s why.....

REFRAIN

...I should have been chillin’ with peeps. I could have
Been, spendin’ more time relaxin’ or sleep. I would have
Been, pushin’ up on girls like the first two. But
Instead, I was wastin’ time fuckin’ wit’ you. On some
Bottom line shit I know I played myself in retrospect
Giving you the respect of a top choice
Select. On some never again shit I expect, I’ll chalk it
Up to trial ad error, but I can’t say I’m over it yet.
I of sound mind and body could have sworn you were the
Best of both worlds in my eyes yo you had no flaws.
Then I learned it was to good to be true, cause now my
Two favorite records are Wildflower and Truly Yours.
I can’t front though, you had me for a second. I was
Caught up in your words, over lookin’ your ways. Truth was
Seen but not heard, you was lyin’ for days, just to
Find yourself lost in your own damn maze. Now my
Vision’s clarified like Windex. You get the peace
Sign without the index, from ex to next. Too
Complex, I’ll translate. Fuck you! Clean bill of
Health, still I wish I never stuck you. Claim to be my
Earth, but your too trife. More like Mercury. You
Came close but too hot to sustain life. Now you’re
Cast out, far out like Pluto, three strikes
Through. Many are called but the chosen are few. So I

REFRAIN

credits

from The Best Part, released May 1, 2001
Get the Third
Beats provided by Chris Catalyst and Probe.dms for DMS Country Productions
Produced and arranged by the Chris Catalyst and Probe.dms
(J. Cadet, D. Booth, C. Buncher)
Only Child’s Brother’s Music / ASCAP.

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J-Live's music has been a staple of inspiration for listeners of underground hip hop for over 20 years. His discography includes more than 15 full projects, as well as countless guest appearances. The artists and producers J-Live has recorded and toured with are a who's who of hip hop icons from DJ Premier, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Prince Paul, The Roots, Black Star, Wu Tang Clan, and many many more. ... more

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