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 Life Bush n' Blair 12"
This is a promotional record released to create a stir for Life's forthcoming longplayer 'Everyday Life'.
The lead track deals with the subject you'd expect from the title - its an attempt at a politically motivated track. Nappa's production takes some subtle eastern influences and creates a nice mild lolloping rhythm which stirs around in the background. As with most Phi-Life Cypher related tracks your attention is drawn to the quickfire vocals raining down across the top of the beat. Personally I felt the beat and the tracks topical subject matter warranted a more coherent performance - aka quality over quantity. It gets boring when a lyricist has used the same repeated formulaic approach to lacing a track - and this tune suffers as a result. There was a huge potential to make a quality political track highlighting the hypocrisy existing in modern politics and providing an alternative to the warmongering bullshit we hear everyday through the mainstream media. Instead we get a blitz of cliched couplets with simple a,b,c rhyme structures - I was well disappointed and after two minutes of the barrage you simply switch off in a stupor. Put simply a chorus couplet of 'this world it aint fair, bush n blair, they dont care, hope you'll all be aware' isnt coming close to poaching Chuck D, Michael Franti n' Zack De La Rocha's throne.
- Stalemate
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