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Mr Lif's latest mini-album, Emergency Rations, contains in-depth political analysis and a fine grasp of America's role in international affairs. Hip-hop has long been perceived as the "Black CNN", but its broadcasts are usually limited to eyewitness reportage of domestic affairs. Not so those of Mr Lif. So on "Home Of The Brave", this hyper-articulate Boston rapper nails America's long and oil-dominated interest in Afghanistan and the scare tactics employed at home in the wake of September 11. "When they realised we don't support their attack," he forcefully argues, "they needed something to distract–-anthrax."
Mr Lif's latest mini-album, Emergency Rations, contains in-depth political analysis and a fine grasp of America's role in international affairs. Hip-hop has long been perceived as the "Black CNN", but its broadcasts are usually limited to eyewitness reportage of domestic affairs. Not so those of Mr Lif. So on "Home Of The Brave", this hyper-articulate Boston rapper nails America's long and oil-dominated interest in Afghanistan and the scare tactics employed at home in the wake of September 11. "When they realised we don't support their attack," he forcefully argues, "they needed something to distract–-anthrax."
Plainly, then, we're far from the urban party zone occupied by most contemporary hip-hop icons. Raging, conscientious, tofu-espousing, incredibly well-informed and, perhaps, a little paranoid, Lif is in good company with the mighty El-P and Cannibal Ox at the Def Jux label. More polemicist than documentary-maker, there are times on this frequently marvellous mini-album where he comes on like a next-generation Chuck D.
"This record uses propaganda to open the public eye to the many heinous acts committed by the American government," observes Lif. Like Noam Chomsky with two turntables and a microphone, then. And, oh yeah, the music's great too. --John Mulvey
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