Emergency Rations

Mr. Lif

2002

Emergency Rations is a concept album whose premise centers around Mr. Lif’s fictional kidnapping presumably by government agents. It begins with a conversation between two men about Mr Lif having to go into hiding, because he’s so dangerous, and has something to say and that he needs to be quieted. 

Mr. Lif has been kidnapped — in the middle of a live performance — by unidentified agents and is now missing. What made the diminutive MC so dangerous? The eight tracks of Emergency Rations quickly set out to answer that question, showcasing Lif’s direct, uncompromising attacks on civil rights, censorship, and especially — in the wake of September 11, 2001 — U.S. foreign policy