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When he was growing up, Lif says, the few hip-hop shows in Boston were “pretty rowdy, so my folks kept me at bay.” There were plenty of other means for a hardcore fan to get his hands on cutting-edge jams, so Lif avidly collected tapes by groups like Run DMC and De La Soul...
...Lif credits David M. Mays ’90, who spun records on WHRB as an undergrad, for introducing him to underground emcees and tracks that never enjoyed commercial circulation. Mays later went on to found “The Source,” the first and most prominent mainstream hip-hop magazine...
...Lif pays homage to Boston’s hip-hop roots on his 2000 debut EP Enters the Colossus—a bare-bones affair featuring old-school beats and some cocksure rhyming. On the album’s closing track, he names the influences, collaborators and contemporaries who jumpstarted his career, name-dropping several Boston colleges before mentioning Harvard radio...
Only a year earlier, Lif says, he had begun to “stake [his] claim as an emcee.” Lif and other up-and-comers—including Mr. Turk, 7L and DJ Sense, who features on Colossus—started putting on shows at the Middle East club in Central Square, which flew the flag for Boston...
...wouldn’t really have had it like we did [without the Middle East],” says Lif. “They held us down...