the song is called i-phantom from mr. lif
i remember the first time i heard it, i was playin tony hawk underground because it was on that game i remember i thought it was amazing and whenever it came on i felt like.. oh snap its that song again.. it always gave me a sense of power but at the same time a sense of being a small link in a very large chain to have both of those feelings at once in a sense seems contradictory, but that's kinda why the song is amazing the song at the time was kinda revolutionary to me because it gave me the feeling of like a public enemy song.. the height of p.e. was probably like 1989.. so here i was, in 2004 getting a sort of public enemy offspring that was a tad more relevant to me (being a 20yr old going through what mr lif describes) in the song he says a lot of things about society, and at the same time he talked about very personal things that i could relate to completely at the time such as: looked in my fridge and found nothin/ dipped to my room, with an aura of gloom/ wishin i could write another tune/ but my hands are paralyzed, plus my eyes/ wanna shed tears, but its not possible there's/ the burden of things i couldn't bear/ feelings weren't dealt with properly, remorse follows me/ with his good friend, the threat of poverty/ here's where i am, vs. where i think i oughtta be/ i could say more about the lyrics but i would be typing the entire song out i want to say a few last things about it *the intro is incredible, it makes u feel like you're waking up inside if that makes any sense *the end with the different peoples voices makes u want to stand up and say "i-phantom" it makes u feel like part of an official generation with its own problems and struggles, but facing these as opposed to running from them comes with a feeling of strength *i like the personal mixed with the social.. having that all at once is rare *the production is amazing on every level *this song speaks for us
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JaimsThese are my blogs from 2009. I started them in May of that year when I couldn't work on music but still needed a way to express myself. Archives
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