One To 31 chords by J-LIVE
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I came to New
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York
by way of my old earth.
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My father came over here from Haiti
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about 40 years ago.
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My father did not teach me his language.
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I barely knew him as my father.
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He is like the devil
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in that he gave me nothing.
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Why is he like the devil?
Because he avoided me
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since I was a little boy.
Why do you not seek him out now,
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but to a grown man?
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Because my mother gave me
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food for thought and belly.
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Does this have anything to do
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with the above question?
I didn't need him to acquire
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the knowledge of myself.
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What is the knowledge of yourself?
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My own self is a righteous God
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Are there any gods other than righteous?
I beg your pardon,
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I've never heard of one
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Now drawing up that de gree ain't hard
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Cause if you ain't righteous,
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how you supposed to be God?
Another question you might have,
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no doubt
How does God on his album cover
lookin' knocked out?
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For me it's simple and plain,
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let me ex plain
It's symbolic to the fact
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that I've been through some things
I wasn't trippin' or takin'
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no ass whippin' literally
I'm just tryin' to show you my pain
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Cause life imitates art
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like before I even had kids
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Naming my first album the best part
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The life of this artist is drawn kinda dark
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The darkness accentuates the light spark
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To reveal this room full of powder cans
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That explodes into all of these sands
So visually, that was me
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knocked out
Musically,
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this is me getting up off the ground
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I used this assaultin' battery to energize
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And set sail on a whole
nother enterprise
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Boldly go where MCs are scared to
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Man up in ways boys ain't prepared to
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Take life's hardest hits on the chin
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Wipe the blood off my cheek
and begin again
So why these rappers
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fantasize and pretend
This is show you art
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imitates life now and then
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How many records have
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you released as JY?
A little over 5
How many records have you sold
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combined since your first
album?
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Approximately 100 ,000
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Do you mean to say that the millions
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of people who love hip -hop
aren't aware of your music?
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Yes, sir.
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I can hardly believe that unless they were blind,
deaf, and dumb.
Well, they were made blind, deaf, and dumb
by popular culture
since they were babies.
And a label fooled Jay Live?
No, not nowadays.
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Do you mean to say the labels were
fooling Jay Live for 10 years?
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Yes. The labels made an
interpretation
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that I received gold for my labor,
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more than I could earn
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in my own company.
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Then, did you receive gold?
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No, no, no, no, no.
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The labels disappeared.
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And there was no one there
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to speak my language.
Then, then, then, then what happened?
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You
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