J-Live has established himself as one of the underground’s finest emcees. With two remarkable albums under his belt (2001’s The Best Part and 2002’s All of the Above), J-Live has returned with his third album to secure his place amongst the industry’s finest artists.
J-Live has completed his Penalty Recordings debut, The Hear After, which will be released on August 30th. The Hear After’s lead-single, “Audio Visual” is making moves on college radio and J-Live lives up to his “Live Motivator” mantra on “Sidewalks” where he laments “from the sidewalks up here watching Hiphop grow/and vice versa from school battles to my own show/I watched skills evolve and the next up blow/motivated by the love for the art and the dough/I seen people influenced by the next mans flow/to the point that it controls where they content go/but if there’s eight million stories and a handful of rappers/we can’t all be pimps, players and gun clappers/it sounds sexy coming out of ya stereo right/but then you wonder why we still getting stereotyped.”
Tracklisting as follows
1.) Here f/Soulive
2.) Aaw Yeah
3.) Fire Water
4.) Do My Thing f/Cvees
5.) Whoever
6.) The Sidewalks
7.) Audio Visual
8.) Brooklyn Public Part 1
9.) Listening f/Kola Rock
10.) Harder
11.) Coming Home f/Dwele
12.) Weather The Storm
13.) After
