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I Phantom
''I Phantom'' is the debut studio album by American rapper Mr. Lif, released on September 16, 2002, by Definitive Jux. It was produced mostly by El-P,〔 and recorded at Boston Butta Beats, Def Jux Studios, Steel Acres, and The Danger Room.〔 ''I Phantom'' is a hip hop concept album about the working life of an African American who is pressured into pursuing the dubious rewards of the American dream.〔 It received positive reviews from music critics upon its release and was praised for El-P's sparse hip hop production and Lif's incisive lyrics and everyman themes.
== Music and lyrics ==
''I Phantom'' is a concept album described as "an exploration of the dynamics of everyday life, and the pursuit of our dreams, in a rapidly decaying society." The narrative begins with death ("A Glimpse At The Struggle") and resurrection ("Return Of The B-Boy") and ends with nuclear holocaust ("Earthcrusher," "Post-Mortem"). The liner notes provide instructions on how to follow the story.
The album expands on the everyman persona that Lif debuted on his 2002 extended play ''Emergency Rations'', of which he said in an interview for the ''Chicago Tribune'': "We're wasting time if we're not talking about issues that affect us and the planet in our music. I grew up in an era when Boogie Down Productions, Public Enemy and Eric B. and Rakim were dropping serious science on their records. They didn't ignore what was going on around them at the time, and neither should we. We're talking with each other through this music." While the EP was a fierce political diatribe on U.S. foreign policy and the Bush administration, ''I Phantom'' focuses more on working class black America.
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