Word: lifã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...those in the know, the release of underground rapper Mr Lif??s debut I Phantom is a momentous occasion. Having spent years building up a following in his native Boston releasing raw singles and playing awe-inspiring live shows, Lif was becoming increasingly hot property and was snatched up by the powerhouse underground label Definitive Jux. He released an EP on Def Jux this summer entitled Emergency Rations, an angry firestorm of an album that included on its lead single the lyrics “Headlines: Bush steals the presidency” and “Planes...
...about to go Rambo / I call up my friend and he says he understands yo.” He tackles social climbing in the tragicomic “Status,” whose raw beat, supplied by Insight, is, according to the skit that precedes it, due to Lif??s inability to muster anything more than a sandwich with which to pay him. “Hip hop is so wack, the beats are fighting back,” Lif declaims on “Return of the B-Boy,” a seven and a half...