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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The Best Part 2X LP Original 1999 "Bootleg" Pressing (Signed Promo Jacket)
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.
Super rare first pressing from 1999. Live 99. Signed!
Includes unlimited streaming of The Best Part via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more
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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The Best Part 2X LP 3TP/Fat Beats Test Pressing (signed)
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.
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.
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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The Best Part 2XLP (Mortier Music Test Pressing)
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.
These are extremely rare black vinyl test pressings of the limited red vinyl run by Mortier Music circa 2019.
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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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.
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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Purchasable with gift card
$20USDor more
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
$20USDor 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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My style has no birth
Record. You might know when my record was born, or how I
Play my favorite classics till the needles are gone. And true
Say, you might know how my mom’s push in seventy
Six, turned my world view, inside out in one
Day. But this goes back, further than that. Further
Than rap, before that first hospital slap. Way
Beyond the confines of joy and pain, further than pride and
Shame. Older than the foundation of the food chain. To
Born the understanding of an equal cipher. With the
Consistency of daylight, I shine so bright. I check,
One two, but I ain’t talkin’ bout no mic. I check
One Two, to calculate the science of life, to add
Things right and take care of my business. Allowing me to
Handle my pleasure like a pirate does treasure. My
Rhymes are buried too deep to measure by the sands of the
Hour glass in other words built to last.
I KEEP IT
TIMELESS BECAUSE I TAKE MY TIME WITH IT.
RESPECT GOES OUT TO CIVILIZED AND COMMITTED. “CAUSE
ONCE YOU HEAR THE CAPITAL” J, “RAP IT’LL STAY,
WITH YOU FOR AWHILE, AND IT WON’T GO AWAY”. I KEEP IT TIMELESS, BECAUSE I DO MY THING
REGARDLESS OF THE STRESS THAT YOUR LIFE MIGHT BRING.
SO
ONCE YOU HEAR THE CAPITAL J RAP IT’LL STAY WITH YOU FOR A WHILE .
What do you do when you got
Twenty, two minute tasks and ten minutes to deal
With it, and for the first five you bullshitted? This
Scenario, really best describes our folks, it’s like,
Devils got plans and niggas got jokes. Like an
Under dog team got hopes. But, hoop dream
Buzzer beaters choke when yawl triple teamed point guards
Go nuts. Power corrupts. And it’s a shame cause the
Hardest working’ squad gets left with a donut. The
Front runners say so what. They can’t back their home
Team cause they got no guts. And high scorers check
Stats, but they still have yet to win. Plus
Tomorrow they’ll be ridin’ the bench once again. So you
See, in this game of life, I’m not trying to be the MV
P, cause the enemy’s the clock, and the referee.
Because it’s obvious the world is out of order. I
Hope you wake up, because we’re in the fourth quarter yawl.
REFRAIN
Who pays dues plus
Sales tax, just to paint a picture with a thousand
Words, only to find out your vision’s is blurred. It’s
Absurd, yet it’s still observed, how the brilliance of
Blackness is lost when a sights unheard. As old
Rhyme styles fester like dreams deferred. New
Styles might shine at God’s speed indeed. While some
Still, “wear the mask that grins and lies”. Hides
Cheeks and shades eyes, but I’m not surprised. It’s no
Disguise, cause my five eye’s remain all wise. No
Excuse, cause the innocent are still downsized. No
Escape, we remain robbed killed and raped till you
Take back your mind and extract the lies. But
Until then, I still utilize my pen, to lead the
Lamb from the slaughter and the horse to the water.
Continuing to face the stress of life’s test. With
Rhymes that impress the best cause my mind is Timeless.
REFRAIN
credits
from The Best Part,
released May 1, 2001
Timeless
Beats provided by Chris Catalyst for DMS Country Productions
Produced and arranged by: Chris Catalyst, Co Produced by Probe.dms
(J. Cadet, D. Booth, C. Buncher)
Only Child’s Brother’s Music / ASCAP
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
As soon as I heard the song Like Really I just had to buy the album. Then I finished listening to all the songs, and knew I made a good choice. Oddisee is one of the best hip hop artists on bandcamp. Devin Anderson
I'm a bit anoid with my silf that I only just found this fantastic album yesterday, but also chuffed to fuck that I have at all. Love it so much what a wining collaboration 👊🔥🔥 Toblermone
