[Conversation between passenger and J-Live]
Yo, where you going?
Take me to, um, 32nd and 7th
Alright, hop on
Yo! Ain't you J-Live?!
Yes
Ma- what you doing driving a cab?
Man, you know that I gotta take the lights off, you know?
Yo, man, we were just listening to all your joints the other day: Always Has Been, The Best Part, you know what sa- all the joints. Yo, didn't you have like a, uh, major record deal or something like that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that. It's a long story
So what went down?
Aight I'll tell you. Bust it

[Verse 1]
Yo, yo, eight years ago, 1995
Me and man from Bed-Stuy was down to do or die
Back then, I rode the train with a pad and a pen
But he had a whip and asked me if I wanna ride
He helped me out with a part-time job
Where I worked at a car service, even helped me learn to drive
And even though I was just getting to know the scene
I had my regular customers that he never seen
But see we made a good team
Hooked up with a plan to find a dispatcher who can make a small green
But I was green to the scheme
Contempt with trading in my gypsy cab status for a limousine
Little did I know the plan wasn't quite complete
Cause now we had to compete with a whole fleet
Not to mention I was strictly on call
So I couldn't even catch my on fares in the streets, that's weak!
My man got more and more sheisty every day
Try to say I should hit him for a piece of my pape
But when he robbed the dispatcher and they tried to blame me
I had to cut him off in the worst way
I guess the moral of the story is
To be dollar van gloriest, you gotta know the biz
Cause it B's like that sometimes
Even if you whip a fat rhyme, you're still bound to have car troubles