Do you dig Mr. Lif? I do. He’s in town tomorrow, and I previewed it for the LA Weekly.It reads like this:

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30Mr. Lif & the Perceptionists at the Knitting Factory

If Yo! MTV Raps was filmed on location at Project Blowed (Leimert Park’s weekly cipher), Mr. Lif would make the perfect host or, rather, MC. Though the young verbologist (he makes up words too) born Jeffrey Haynes is from Boston, there’s something in him that recalls the rap renaissances in New York and L.A. — from the revolution-inspiring P.E. and KRS-One to the word-pondering/play of the Freestyle Fellowship. And with his Def Jux supergroup the Perceptionists — including the never-stuttering Akrobatik, also on vocals, and their friend Fakts One on the ones & twos — he’s got the perfect partners to pass around all sorts of proverbial hot potatoes. Their 2005 full-length, Black Dialogue, was more of a tongue-lashing of our president, but it wasn’t without its fun as “Let’s Move” somehow made it to all the video games. (Daniel Siwek)

check out some of these music videos.I like the technique on this one:and the perceptionists