A Charmed Life Lyrics - Singles - J-live

Africa, Port-of-Prince, Knoxville, Anvan 

Manhattan, South Bend, Albany, Brooklyn 

Africa, Port-of-Prince, Knoxville, Anvan 

Manhattan, South Bend, Albany, Brooklyn 

Africa, Port-of-Prince, Knoxville, Anvan 

Manhattan, South Bend, Albany, Brooklyn 

Africa, Port-of-Prince, Knoxville, Anvan 

Manhattan, South Bend, Albany, Brooklyn 

Brooklyn, New York to wherever you at 

This is autobiographical taking you back 

I live a charmed life, we going back in the years 

Imagining if my whole world what 

Brooklyn, New York to wherever you at 

This is autobiographical taking you back 

I live a charmed life, we going back in the years 

Imagining if my whole world what 

I been around the sun twenty-five times 

And I still find new ways to recognize shine 

It's like light gets better with age 

The way a song sounds better on stage 

And rhyme books get better with each page 

What before the first bar was written 

A first verse was spittin', before label execs was bullshittin' 

Way back when aunty Leann aunt Mimi 

And aunt Jackie was babysitting 

Before food was bitten, consumed through a nipple 

I'm talking about when times were simple 

To make a long story short it goes 

Port-Au-Prince Knoxville Anvan love and the city that never sleeps 

From thought to finish I was born just a couple of weeks late 

Stayed home longer just to make sure everything was on straight 

All systems go cut the umbilical cord 

From old earth to new earth Manhattan to turf 

For what it's worth my mum held me down one deep 

Pops was absentee but minds you don't sleep 

It took her feelings to raise me lean taught me how to read 

By the time I went to school I was in high speed 

Ready willing and able Jackie taught me how to add with 

Dried up black eyed peas on the kitchen table 

And coming home to a mothers love and good care 

Never wanted it was always enough 

But when it came to education it's like she had one rule 

There's no such thing as too much school 

Not to mention lean taught me how to play the piano and then 

Every summer I was out in South Ben 

Grand pops a bartender at a country club 

Me and my cousins from grand rapid was living it up 

Me and granny watching [Incomprehensible] football golden blue 

She said you can't beat the team and them B's too 

Some say I got my sense of humor from her 

And I learned patience from making models in the basement 

Brooklyn, New York to wherever you at 

This is autobiographical taking you back 

With no time for refrains I barely got enough time to explain 

How hip hop captivated my brain 

My mama raised me on soul and Beethoven 

Sports clubs from private school put me up on soft rock 

That was cool but I left Z100 and WGLJ 

To find bliss with real S and kiss 

Video music rocks showed my what time it is 

Wrote my first rhymes as Corey but J-Live was sparked 

Making pause mix demos with my main man mark 

Playing ball in the park, there was other heads too 

I was the herb of the crew, then I learned what to do 

Got my way from school started battling fools 

G nice my friendly rival at the lunch table 

He started spark at a dark with Damian and I date 

I was down for a bit but that was just a DJ 

Starting spinning in the PJs with satcho and them 

Back and forth from the tables to the pad and the pen 

Then I had to do a bit upstate but wait 

I wasn't incarcerated but college educated 

As soon the Albany I was a full time student part time emcee 

At the time raw shack was the place to be 

Living on judge Clark 

Started building with Gods 

16 man squad 

By the time knowledge was 120 we was just 5 deep 

I went from mekka to Albany a student 

And landed in Medina as a teacher 

I had this rhyme reacher 

We recognized what what's happening 

I'm making records and I'm winning 

But that's another story and it's only the beginning 

Brooklyn, New York to wherever you at 

This is autobiographical taking you back 

Not my whole entire life but just a slice of the pie 

A few pieces of the who what when wheres and whys