Millennium Metaphors

Millennium Metaphors is the first album by the Luton-based hip hop group Phi Life Cypher.[2][3][4] It is notable for its highly political lyrics and has been likened to the early work of Public Enemy.

Millennium Metaphors
Studio album by
Phi Life Cypher
Released25 September 2000
GenreHip hop
LabelJazz Fudge
ProducerSkitz and others
Phi Life Cypher chronology
Millennium Metaphors
(2000)		 The Instrumentals
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
RapReviews6.5/10[1]

Critical reception

Tim Perry, in The Independent, wrote that the album got "across the current angst and disillusionment with Blair's Britain like no others" and that it was the "absolute flipside of the Lexus-and-diamonds rappers".[5]

Track listing
  1. "Intro" - 1:05
  2. "ABC" - 5:25
  3. "Rhyme of the Times" - 4:12
  4. "BBC" - 3:50
  5. "Racists" - 4:26
  6. "Drop Bombs" - 2:59
  7. "Take Heed" - 3:50
  8. "Verbal Wars" - 4:13
  9. "Phi Life Phi Life" - 4:39
  10. "Last Men Standing" - 3:35
  11. "Fatcats" - 4:55
  12. "Herbaholics" - 4:52
  13. "Phi Life Is Here" - 3:38
  14. "Tiks Sappan" - 1:21
  15. "Bring It to Ya" - 4:35
  16. "Bad Men From the West" - 4:43
  17. "Class A Material" - 3:52
  18. "Crazy Balheads" - 3:23
  19. "Millennium Metaphors" - 4:21
  20. "Shining" - 3:45

References
  1. "Phi-Life Cypher :: Millennium Metaphors :: Jazz Fudge Recordings". www.rapreviews.com.
  2. "Hip-Hop Connection" (210–211). April 2007: 106. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-01-28. Retrieved 2012-05-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. The Wire. C. Parker. 2000. p. 82. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  5. Tim Perry (7 October 2000). "Phi-Life Cypher 'Millennium Metaphors' (Jazz Fudge)". The Independent.



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