Millennium Metaphors
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{{Infobox album
| name = Millennium Metaphors
| type = Studio
| artist = Phi Life Cypher
| cover = Millennium metaphors.jpg
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| released = 25 September 2000
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| genre = Hip hop
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| label = Jazz Fudge
| producer = Skitz and others
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| next_title = The Instrumentals
| next_year = 2000
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Millennium Metaphors is the debut studio album by the Luton-based hip hop group Phi Life Cypher.{{cite journal |title=Hip-Hop Connection |date=April 2007 |issue=210–211 |page=106}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.magicrpm.com/a-lire/chronique/phi-life-cypher/millennium-metaphors |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-05-23 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128034948/http://www.magicrpm.com/a-lire/chronique/phi-life-cypher/millennium-metaphors |archive-date=2013-01-28 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book|title=The Wire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DeM4AQAAIAAJ|accessdate=23 May 2012|year=2000|publisher=C. Parker|page=82}} It is notable for its highly political lyrics and has been likened to the early work of Public Enemy.{{by whom|date=October 2014}}
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".{{cite news|title= Phi-Life Cypher 'Millennium Metaphors' (Jazz Fudge) |work=The Independent|author=Tim Perry|date=7 October 2000}}
Track listing
- "Intro" - 1:05
- "ABC" - 5:25
- "Rhyme of the Times" - 4:12
- "BBC" - 3:50
- "Racists" - 4:26
- "Drop Bombs" - 2:59
- "Take Heed" - 3:50
- "Verbal Wars" - 4:13
- "Phi Life Phi Life" - 4:39
- "Last Men Standing" - 3:35
- "Fatcats" - 4:55
- "Herbaholics" - 4:52
- "Phi Life Is Here" - 3:38
- "Tiks Sappan" - 1:21
- "Bring It to Ya" - 4:35
- "Bad Men From the West" - 4:43
- "Class A Material" - 3:52
- "Crazy Balheads" - 3:23
- "Millennium Metaphors" - 4:21
- "Shining" - 3:45