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Mo' Mega
Released: Jun 13, 2006
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Like 2002's {^I Phantom}, {^Mo' Mega} has a concept behind it, but unlike {^I Phantom}, there's no board-game-style liner notes to follow along as {$Mr. Lif} excavates the musings of his mind on culture and politics. What {^Mo' Mega} does have is {$Lif}'s brief statement that the album concerns the intersection of lower-class culture with an increasingly modernizing world, and how the latter is adversely affecting the former. {$Lif} scores hits on dozens of targets, both specific ({$the President}, the FCC, the United Nations, McDonald's) and non-specific (the Feds in general, the global community as a whole, materialism, TV, and, it seems, anyone in a position of authority). Laden with caustic commentary, his tracks are lyrically obtuse but rhythmically effective, and with the weight of eight hard-hitting {$El-P} productions behind him, listeners won't mind taking a couple of spins to digest everything he says. And {$Lif}'s own productions, for a pair of {\comedy} tracks ({&"Murs Iz My Manager,"} {&"Washitup!"}) that appear halfway through the program, are just the icebreakers needed to leaven the funky gloom and doom earlier in the record. At the close of {^Mo' Mega}, {$Lif} looks inward. First he questions his father's abandonment of him ("It's pain like this that makes a grown man crawl"), then he wraps up the record, ironically, with a tribute to his child that was written on the road ("I'm on the highway in Montana and it's 7:42/And Daddy wrote a rhyme just for you"). With political tracks and {\comedy} and confessionals, {$Lif} easily covers more ground than virtually any other rapper on record, and he makes his tracks entertaining, but he occasionally falls prey to a common trap -- educating the listeners but not enlightening them. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

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Return of the B-Boy
Released: Feb 11, 2003
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I Phantom
Released: Sep 17, 2002
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{$Mr. Lif}, the hardworking Bostonian MC, drops a debut LP that playfully discloses in lyrical fashion his inner battle of whether or not to return to his nine-to-five job, but the long-overdue... Continue[+]

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New Man's Theme/Phantom
Released: Aug 6, 2002
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Emergency Rations
Released: Jun 25, 2002
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Boston rapper {$Mr. Lif} has made a name for himself as a thoughtful, often incendiary lyricist. On the {^Emergency Rations} EP, {$Lif} plays the latter part of that equation to the hilt. This is a... Continue[+]

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Home of the Brave/The Unorthodox
Released: Apr 30, 2002
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Live Freestyles
Released: Feb 19, 2002
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Definitive Jux Presents: Mr. Lif & Murs the Weatherman
Released: Jan 22, 2002
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Live at the Middle East
Released: Jan 22, 2002
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{^Live at the Middle East} is possibly the most unusual {\hip-hop} album ever released. The idea of an artist essentially subjecting a paying audience to previously unreleased material (some of... Continue[+]

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Front on This
Released: Mar 20, 2001
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