p-live

P-Live a.k.a. Isaiah Perkins was bred on the streets of the Detroit. When P Live started performing, he needed a name for himself and every time he stepped to the microphone, they said he was “live”. It had a nice ring to it. So with that he went from just being P to becoming P-Live. He’s believed to be the second coming. Born out of the cipher and the battlegrounds of Detroit’s streets, P-Live’s come to offer a rebirth of rap at the tender age of twenty-five. It’s the crowd that got him hooked and it’s the crowd he hooks when he spits on the mic. Around school, he was the man to meet in the bathroom and hallways. Back then P Live was just having fun, enjoying the crowd’s comparisons of him to likes of Jay-Z. He remembers, “They were comparing me to one of the top dawg’s in the game. I was like whoa.” He’s been rapping for about eight years, but inside the cipher he lives to be the one they want to see. One day he found himself chilling and writing out songs. Soon a song became an arsenal… an arsenal that wiped out most of his local competition. He made the final round of the Roc-A-Fella Records’ Rock the Mic battle in 2004. During Rock the Mic, P-Live found his rhythm with the crowd. Listening to P-Live is like listening to poetry… you just have to listen. His style was so intimidating that when Roy Jones Freestyle Battle came to town, it was cancelled after no one would step to him. The crowd erupted with all eyes on P-Live, when he stepped on stage. “It felt more like a showcase than a battle,” he remarks. P- Live has performed with Ludacris, lil wayne, Mike Jones, Jim Jones, Paul Wall, 50 Cent, Kevein Rudolf, Estelle, Sean Paul, and was on tour with Mobb Deep