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| Millennium Metaphors | ||||
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| Released | 25 September 2000 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Label | Jazz Fudge | |||
| Producer | Skitz and others | |||
| Phi Life Cypher chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| RapReviews | 6.5/10 [1] |
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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]
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