Dec 28, 2025
Today in Hip Hop History:
Mr. Lif was born December 28, 1977
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Today in Hip Hop History:
Mr. Lif was born December 28, 1977
Mr. Lif - Emergency Rations E.P.
Bandcamp HERE
Still a top tier album
Push Button Objects - 360 Degrees (ft. Del & Mr. Lif)
Mr. Lif & Brass Menažeri - Resilient - Balkan brass hip hop (!)
Brass Menažeri met Mr. Lif way back in December of 2010, when mad genius Devon Leger thought—unlike anyone else in the world—that Balkan brass would make a good backdrop for hip hop. So he invited us all to meet and collaborate in the Seattle Folk Festival. We sent a swath of largely fruitless emails, flew to Seattle, and had a single rehearsal in a puddly coffin factory, with a borrowed Crate bass guitar amp for Lif’s vocals. We didn’t get electrocuted, somehow, and thus we didn’t make use of the factory’s usual product. Instead we created a collaboration method based on live remixing the band, slicing and rearranging our repertoire on cue, muting and soloing sections of the band & looping sections willy nilly, like a DJ might if they held dictatorial control over ten people, instead of Ableton Live.
You weren’t there, but it was awesome.
We loved it & rocked it. We decided to make a record, raised money from friends & faithful strangers, recorded a lot of music, the band disbanded, some people loved and lost, others simply waited, we composed & recorded & edited & re-recorded (in three different countries) & cut & recut & recomposed (& decomposed a bit—happens to us all), and now only seven years later, you’re holding this thing in your I-wouldn’t-say-grubby-exactly hands, praise the laud.
We’re so eternally grateful to all those who believed in us and supported us throughout this long process; to all who donated to the project; to Waxsimile Records for putting us over the top; and to you for listening to the final result. We hope you enjoy this crazy fruit of our crazy labor & our crazy love. And while the world's winds whip up certain uncertainty, may we breathe deep & build Resilience together—our intertwined roots anchoring our supple-yet-shatterproof trunks, so that everyone's limbs might offer up their most beautiful particular fruit, to nourish us all, while we birth again the world.
—Peter Jaques, Athens 2017
The Perceptionists - Resolution ALBUM REVIEW
I’ve been waiting on this album for such a long time. Two of Boston’s best rappers, Mr. Lif and Akrobatik come back with their second collab album. Their first was Black Dialogue which dropped in 2005. The group went on hiatus after Lif’s tour bus fell off a cliff and Akrobatik had a heart surgery. In the time in between 2005 and 2017, Lif and Akrobatik dropped solo projects. Mr. Lif came back last year from a solo album hiatus with Don’t Look Down and an EP with L’Orange. All that matters is that this album is finally out and it’s just as I expected. This album is amazing, I gave it album of the month for July. These guys rep Boston so well and they don’t sound like anything in hip hop right now. This whole album is great. It’s short and each song is really good. These two have such good chemistry and the beats are pretty good. It’s a versatile album. This album has a lot of replay value to me. Resolution is one of the best hip hop albums I’ve heard this year.
Fav Tracks: Early Mourning, Hose Down, Outta Control, Free At Last, Grab Hold, A Different Light
