A Charmed Life-J-Live

[00:00.00] Africa, Purta Prince, Knoxville, Ann Van, Manhattan, South Band, Albany, Brooklyn [x4] [00:19.95]Brooklyn, New York to wherever you at [00:21.96]This is autobiographical takin' you back [00:24.33]I lived a Charmed Life, we're going back in the years [00:26.79]Imagine if my whole world flashed before your ears [00:36.78][Verse 1] [00:39.15]I've been around the sun 25 times, [00:41.28]And I still find new ways to recognize shine [00:43.59]It's like life gets better with age [00:45.39]The way a song sounds better on stage [00:47.25]And rhyme books get better with each page [00:49.65]Before the first bar was written' [00:51.24]Or first verse was spittin' [00:52.50]Before label excets was bullshittin' [00:54.54]Way back when Aunty Leen, [00:55.98]Aunt Mimi, and Aunt Jackie were babysittin' [00:58.26]Before food was bitten, consumed through a nipple [01:00.78]I'm talkin about when times were simple [01:02.64]To make a long story short it goes [01:04.32]Purta Prince, Knoxville, Ann Van [01:06.18]Love in the City that never sleeps [01:08.04]Some thoughts to finish, I was born just a couple of weeks late [01:11.04]Stay home long just to mke sure everything was on straight [01:13.92]All systems go, cut the umbilical chord [01:16.35]From old earth to new earth Manhattan to turf [01:18.81]For what it's worth, my mom held me down one deep [01:21.15]Pops was absentee, but minds you don't see [01:23.67]It took a village to raise me, Leen tought me how to read [01:26.25]By the time I went to school, I was at high speed [01:28.74]Ready willing and able, Jackie tought me how to add [01:31.23]With dried up black-eyed peas on the kitchen table [01:34.17]And coming ome to a mother's love and good care [01:36.72]Never wantin' him, it was always enough [01:38.49]Except when it came to education, [01:40.29]It's like she had one rule, [01:41.58]There's no such thing as too much school [01:43.56]Not to mention Leen tought me how to play the piano [01:45.93]And then, every summer I was out at South Bnd [01:48.48]Grampaps a bartender at a country club [01:50.82]Me and my cousin from Grand Rapids was livin it up [01:53.40]Me Granny watchin Notre Dame football [01:55.53]Gold and blue, she said you can't beat the team and the beans too [01:58.74]Some say I got my sense of humor from her [02:00.75]And I got my patience from making models in the basement [02:03.63]Brooklyn, New York to where ever you at [02:05.64]This is autobiographical, takin you back [02:08.01]With no time for refrains, [02:09.30]I barely got enough time to explain [02:11.16]How hip hop captivated my brain [02:12.96]My momma raised me on Soul to Beethoven [02:14.94]Sports Club and private school put me on soft rock [02:17.43]Thats was cool, but i left C100 and WPLJ to find bliss from BLS and KISS [02:22.98]Video music rock showed me what time it is, wrote my first rhymes to Corey [02:26.82]But De La was (buck?), makin pause-mix demos with my main man Mark [02:30.27]We playin ball in the park, there were other heads too [02:32.73]I was the herb of the crew, then I learned what to do [02:35.31]Got my weight up at shcool, started battling fools [02:37.77]D-Night, my friendly rival at the lunch table [02:40.14]He started spark in the dark [02:41.40]But Damien and I date [02:42.72]I was down for a bit, but that was just to DJ [02:45.15]Started spinnin in the PJ's with Facho and them [02:47.61]Back and forth from the tables to the Pad and the pen [02:50.07]But then I had to do a bid up state, but wait [02:52.53]I wasn't incarcerated, but college-educated [02:55.26]At SUNY Albany I was a full time student, part-time emcee [02:58.74]At the time (Rawshack?) was the place to be [03:01.14]Livin' on dutch quall, started buildin' with gods [03:03.84]16 man squad, by the time my knowledge 120, we was just 5 deep [03:07.11]I went from Mecca to Albany a student, [03:09.24]And landed in Medena [03:10.98]A havis rhyme reacha [03:12.30]You recognize whats happenin' [03:13.89]I'm makin records and I'm winnin' [03:15.39]But thats another story and thats only the begening [03:17.61]Brooklyn, New York to where ever you at [03:19.53]This is autobiographocal, taken you back [03:21.96]Not my whole entire life, just a slice of the pie [03:24.39]A few pieces of the who but when, wheres, and whys