[00:05.28]Yeah y'all
[00:07.23]Yeah, yeah y'all
[00:09.21]Check it out now (Take your seat, class is in session)
[00:17.01]School's in
[00:17.22]That's right
[00:17.43]Get your pens ready
[00:19.44]Go back to the drawing board
[00:22.08][Verse 1]
[00:23.10]Who got the nerve ta write some shit that you can swerve ta
[00:25.86]Over tracks so phat their nicknamed Big Bertha?
[00:28.59]It's probably the kid that half your crews have never heard of
[00:31.11]Whose mind travels further than pussy, drugs, and murder
[00:33.63]So when you play the role of the Timeless inserter
[00:36.03]I’m sorry if you’re 85 and you would have preferred a
[00:38.67]Album full of ignorance that places an experience
[00:41.37]Before the reasons why for the sake of sounding fly
[00:43.77]But I grade your style without the curve 'cause you don't deserve ta
[00:46.74]Receive a grade that might let you build up the nerve ta
[00:49.17]Bite the rhyme that feeds you and needs you to listen
[00:51.51]My words are wet with crystal clear wisdom so they glisten
[00:54.15]And I fill in the blanks for all the answers that you're missin'
[00:56.73]I'm rollin' with a mongoose 'cause snakes are steady hissin'
[00:59.25]To expose my flaws like salt in sores
[01:01.62]Since they cannot be reformed I simply kill 'em by the fours
[01:04.26]I'm the reason why this fluid is secretin' through your pores
[01:06.87]And your spinal cord won't let your fingers press pause
[01:09.54]My concepts lurk in the depths just like Jaws
[01:12.09]A predator of carnivores terrorizin' herbivores
[01:14.85]So in other words, naw, **** the explanation
[01:17.01]See that's what the rewind's for so be patient
[01:19.71]'Cause this is the direction that my pen should be draggin'
[01:22.26]To transform your dollar cabs into bandwagons
[01:24.78][REFRAIN]
[01:30.54]J-Live with a mic is like a chef with a blade
[01:33.00]No doubt
[01:33.63]Man I'll cut ya like lumber
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[01:39.96][Verse 2]
[01:45.00]You see somewhere in between the old school and the new school
[01:47.91]A master of the next school came to teach the now school
[01:50.46]'Cause business class was steady playin' old tricks on new fools
[01:52.98]So everybody rocks jewels but can’t nobody drop jewels
[01:55.68]One track minded, blinded, thinkin' only pop's cool
[01:58.23]Supply and demand rules replaced by A&R rules
[02:00.69]This scholar of the next school, he wasn't trying to hear that
[02:03.21]So principals and teachers abroad began to fear that
[02:05.79]If this guy makes an impact on the students that we played
[02:08.37]He'll end up having way too much control over their grades
[02:10.83]See grades will equal status for power so just like college
[02:13.47]They're so caught up in letter grades you skip the ****in' knowledge
[02:15.99]See that's how music power shifts from listener to maker
[02:18.57]And that's why music maker shifts from listener to faker
[02:21.15]So when the listener graduates to be an artist
[02:23.73]He's still controlled by the principals because they're heartless
[02:26.28]See first they make you imitate another man's skill
[02:28.92]Now you use your power for another man's will
[02:31.26]Move the crowd's mental and they tell you sit still
[02:34.11]Move the crowd's pockets instead to get the bread
[02:36.42]That's what the students gathered from what the principal said
[02:39.03]They make you think the world bleeds green instead of red
[02:41.58]But class is in session now so all that shit is dead
[02:44.13]We're comin' through with knowledge and wisdom to fill your head
[02:48.36][REFRAIN]
[02:52.38]J-Live with a mic is like a chef with a blade
[02:54.87]No doubt
[02:55.50]Man I'll cut ya like lumber
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[03:04.32][Verse 3]
[03:07.05]Wait a minute
[03:07.68]What the **** does choppin' trees have to do with culinary
[03:10.23]That's the spirit, kid, analyze the lyrics
[03:12.18]From the moment that you hear it, see, 'cause most don't have the skill ta
[03:15.00]Utilize their ear's function as a bullshit filter
[03:17.52]So their brain gets clogged and congested by the time
[03:19.92]And the effort that's invested in illusion
[03:21.93]And by the time's definition of reality
[03:24.27]By the time you get the facts they're outnumbered in confusion
[03:27.03]So I come to get shit off my chest and up in ya
[03:29.58]And I come to make you feel at home with your power
[03:32.13]And I come to plant seeds of responsibility
[03:34.68]'Cause I come harder than a sleeper's cold shower
[03:37.20]Refinin' and refreshing, reprimanding those who say
[03:40.17]They're representing by demanding clarity
[03:42.66]'Cause when a mouthful don't equal an eyeful, an earful
[03:45.51]Sounds awful, word, at least that's how it seems to me
[03:47.94]So I lead by example in my soundproof room
[03:50.52]And the comp gets trampled on my wack-proof stage
[03:53.10]And my answers be ample in a packed classroom
[03:55.59]'Cause my thoughts are reflected on an ink-filled page
[04:00.00][REFRAIN]
[04:04.05]J-Live with a mic is like a chef with a blade
[04:06.51]No doubt
[04:07.14]Man I'll cut ya like lumber
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