J-Live, also known as Justice Allah, is an MC, DJ, and producer from New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J-Live first appeared on the underground hip-hop scene in 1995, when he was a freshman English major at the University at Albany, The State University of New York. His first single \u00ab Longevity \u00bb appeared on Mark Farina\u2019s Mushroom Jazz CD, and follow-up singles \u00ab Braggin\u2019 Writes \u00bb and \u00ab Hush the Crowd \u00bb garnered widespread attention, getting him printed in the \u00ab Unsigned Hype \u00bb section of The Source. This led to a record contract with Raw Shack Records. His first album, The Best Part, recorded from 1995 to 1999, featured production by Prince Paul, DJ Premier, and Pete Rock. Due to problems with his record label, J-Live left the label and the album was shelved. He moved to Payday Records, but when Payday\u2019s parent company London Records was bought from Universal Music Group by WEA, the album was again shelved. In 2001, copies surfaced as bootlegs and several were of such high quality it was rumored that J-Live himself was behind them. By the fall of 2001, The Best Part was finally officially released after five years of label problems. It was released on Triple Threat Productions, J-Live\u2019s own record label.<\/p>\n\n\n