Mr. Lif’s Emergency Rations EP is post-9/11 hip hop at its most daring

First, you driblet bombs, past you nonstop aid. Totally logical. | Image: Definitive Jux

There was a play successful the aboriginal aughts erstwhile Definitive Jux (nee: Def Jux) seemed similar it was going to beryllium the aboriginal of hep hop. While the statement featured plentifulness of experimental, boundary-pushing, and politically minded acts, Lif stood retired arsenic the astir "conscious rapper" successful the accepted sense. It was wide though, that statement caput El-P envisioned that arsenic an important portion of Def Jux's identity, arsenic the archetypal grounds it enactment retired was 2000's Enter the Colossus EP, from Lif.

Mr. Lif's follow-up was 2002's Emergency Rations EP, a benignant of spot setter for the full-length I, Phantom conscionable a mates of months later. It opens with a skit astir Lif missing …

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