Subject: Mr. Lif

• The truth hurts: Brother Ali should try his hand at failure

  March 5, 2008

• Lif Off

  January 23, 2008

• Getting Paid

  August 1, 2007

• Live Wires

  The high and lowlights of 2006 performances

  December 20, 2006

• Unagi emerges from the local hip hop underground

  November 22, 2006

• DJ Krush

  Stepping Stones (Sony Japan)

  September 27, 2006

• Mr. Lif

  July 19, 2006

• Going fishing for inspiration

  July 5, 2006

• The Perceptionists

  April 13, 2005

• Hear This

  Hip hop's first agitprop supergroup has arrived, and so have four teenage siblings from Texas who play indie pop. Yippee!

  February 2, 2005

• BeatBox

  Aesop Rock makes the unintelligible, well, entertaining; the legendary Shapeshifters shuffle up from L.A.

  December 1, 2004

• BeatBox

  DJ Krush lays down the moody beats; "Remember" takes you all the way back to the '70s, for better or worse.

  September 29, 2004

• Fabled Aesop

  The rhymes are strange and the beats are bleak, but Aesop Rock insists that his latest is anything but experimental

  September 24, 2003

• Keeping It Eel

  Having learned to love himself -- literally -- instrumental hip hop producer Unagi has arrived with a sensual debut

  September 10, 2003

• Hear This

  May 14, 2003

• Reviews

  October 29, 1997

• Gift of Gab’s talent sidetracks his solo missions

  November 4, 2009

• Last Night: Chali 2na, Gift of Gab, & Mr. Lif at the Independent

  ​Chali 2na, Gift of Gab, & Mr. Lif, hosted by Lyrics Born November 7, 2009 The Independent Better Than: This year's VH1 Hip-Hop Honors Indie hip-hop icons still pack them in up in the Bay Area. On Saturday night, the Independent was dominated by indie artists who have spent more than 15 years building their audiences and fanbases, and thus know how to give the people what they want. As a result, the sold out capacity-crowd of 500, who showed up and early and cheered often, left happy

  November 8, 2009