Mr. Lif (born Jeffrey Haynes) is an American hip hop artist from Boston, Massachusetts, signed to Definitive Jux. Mr. Lif is also a member of the hip hop group The Perceptionists with long-time friends and collaborators Akrobatik and DJ Fakts One.(...i hate the ten second countdown on this vid. lame.)*lil fact-oid: According to Mr. Lif, his pseudonym comes from a song he heard at a Phish concert. As Lif recounts in an interview "They had this song, 'Liftedly Man', with this incredible bass line. I don't know what it was, but the character really got to me. I thought of him as the 'ultra you', someone that is perceptive, trying to gain knowledge of self, surroundings, and situations". Later some friends of his added the "Mister".
dj ivi says
i lOve mr. lif! i was sad to hear of the troubles that he and the coup had on their tour this year. (tour bus fire, lost all their equipment, had to go home empty handed)
mr. lif has some of the best lyrics in hip hop!
i really need to start getting involved in hip hop night on mog....
Mr. Lif (born Jeffrey Haynes) is an American hip hop artist from Boston, Massachusetts, signed to Definitive Jux. Mr. Lif is also a member of the hip hop group The Perceptionists with long-time friends and collaborators Akrobatik and DJ Fakts One.(...i hate the ten second countdown on this vid. lame.)
*lil fact-oid: According to Mr. Lif, his pseudonym comes from a song he heard at a Phish concert. As Lif recounts in an interview "They had this song, 'Liftedly Man', with this incredible bass line. I don't know what it was, but the character really got to me. I thought of him as the 'ultra you', someone that is perceptive, trying to gain knowledge of self, surroundings, and situations". Later some friends of his added the "Mister".
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