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Emergency Rations (EP)

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Released
  
June 25, 2002

Emergency Rations (2002)
  
I Phantom (2002)

Release date
  
25 June 2002

Genre
  
Hip hop music

Length
  
28:18

Artist
  
Mr. Lif

Label
  
Definitive Jux

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Recorded
  
February 28, 2002; Bandulero Sound, Berlin; Boston Butta Beats, Boston; The Pool Room, New York City

Producers
  
Mr. Lif, Edan, DJ Hype, El-P

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Emergency Rations is the second EP by American rapper Mr. Lif, released on June 25, 2002, by Definitive Jux. It was recorded on February 28, 2002, at Bandulero Sound in Berlin, Boston Butta Beats in Boston, and The Pool Room in New York City.

Contents

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Music and lyrics

Emergency Rations is a concept album whose premise centers around Mr. Lif's fictional kidnapping presumably by government agents. It showcases his defiant perspective on themes such as civil rights, censorship, and U.S. foreign policy. He also raps about societal ills such as gender socialization, the vapid state of pop culture, and the dehumanizing effects of capitalism. Lif's thoughtful, confrontational lyrics are backed by Akrobatik and El-P's dissonant production, which evokes feelings of paranoia and alienation.

Critical reception

Emergency Rations received positive reviews from critics. In The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin highlighted the EP's "solid blast of social consciousness" and wrote that it possessed "a raw, unfinished quality that more than lives up to the urgency of its title". AllMusic's Martin Woodside called Lif "a thoughtful, often incendiary lyricist", while giving Emergency Rations four out of five stars and calling it "a provocative, well-crafted album that proves hard to ignore." Robert Christgau from The Village Voice found Mr. Lif "funny" and an "angry guy" while giving Emergency Rations an "A–". According to him, Lif used the EP as both a set up for his subsequent concept album, I Phantom (2002), and as "an excuse to drop random science about the place of hip hop in the military-industrial complex."

Track listing

  1. "Intro (Missing Person's File)" – 2:22
  2. Featuring Akrobatik and Brotha PC
  3. "Jugular Vein" – 3:19
  4. Produced by Mr. Lif
  5. Scratches by Doc Fu
  6. "Heavy Artillery" – 3:41
  7. Produced by Edan
  8. Scratches by Edan
  9. "Home of the Brave" – 3:46
  10. Produced by Mr. Lif
  11. Scratches by DJ Hype
  12. "Pull Out Your Cut" – 3:30
  13. Produced by DJ Hype
  14. Scratches by DJ Hype
  15. "Get Wise '91" – 3:21
  16. Featuring Edan
  17. Produced by Edan
  18. Scratches by Edan
  19. "The Unorthodox" – 4:00
  20. Produced by DJ Fakts One
  21. Scratches by DJ Fakts One
  22. "Phantom" – 4:18
  23. Featuring El-P
  24. Produced by El-P

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

  • Akrobatik – vocals
  • Keith Atkins – engineer
  • DJ Hype – cut, producer
  • Edan – producer
  • EI P – producer, vocals
  • Fakts One – cut, producer, vocals
  • Ray Boy Fernandes – engineer, mixing
  • Marc Johnson – engineer
  • Dan Ezra Lang – art direction, design, illustrations
  • Mr. Lif – primary artist, producer
  • Nasa – engineer, mixing
  • Ghazi Shami – development

    • Songs

    1Intro (Missing Person’s File)2:22
    2Jugular Vein3:19
    3Heavy Artillery3:41

    References

    Emergency Rations (EP) Wikipedia
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