J-Live released his debut studio album, The Best Part, in 2001.[6] It featured production by DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and Prince Paul.[7] In 2002, his second studio album, All of the Above, was released on Coup D’état.[8] It has sold 30,000 copies.[9]
J-Live's third studio album, The Hear After, was released in 2005.[10] In 2008, he released the fourth studio album, Then What Happened?, on BBE.[11] In 2011, he released a studio album, S.P.T.A. (Said Person of That Ability).[12]
From 1998 to 2002, J-Live served as an English teacher in Brownsville and Bushwick, Brooklyn.[13]