By Bill Forman for the Colorado Springs Independent:
The idea of hip-hop activist Mr. Lif not talking about politics is as inconceivable as Lady GaGa not talking about, you know, whatever it is she talks about.Read Lif's answer here. Mr Lif visited Soundlab 3 times - on 02/18/05 with The Perceptionists (Mr Lif/Akrobatik/DJ Fakts One), on 02/09/07 and on 02/27/10.
One of this past decade's most politically astute and critically celebrated underground hip-hop heroes, Lif made waves last year with his Inauguration Day release of the prescient single, "Obama." On a day when just about everyone this side of a Penguin-esque Dick Cheney seemed caught up in the moment, the East Coast rapper's reservations echoed across the Internet like a stone-cold reality check: "I'd like to be more optimistic / But the world is twisted / A new America? / Oh shit, I think I missed it."
Now, as the promise of health care reform sinks into the political morass, Lif's cautionary stance seems well ahead of the curve. The same can be said for I Heard It Today, the album he released three months later that's as politically incisive as anything from Public Enemy or Dead Prez in their prime.
But today?
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