Indie hip-hop, like most established music genres, has its own formalist traditions. The Perceptionists, a supergroup comprised of MCs Mr. Lif and Akrobatik and DJ/producer Fakts One, stick to those ...

Boston-based hip-hop trio The Perceptionists are fast-rising stars in the rap music underground. Featuring the bold mike talents of Mr. Lif and Akrobatik as well as the buff bounce of DJ Fakts One, ...

Mr. Lif says he’s most productive when he’s at home.”I kinda thought of the name The Perceptionists one day in my pantry,” says the Boston-based rapper, who’s talking on his “piece of shit” cell phone ...

Rappers Mr. Lif and Akrobatik make up the duo known as The Perceptionists, which headlines Hard Rock Hotel and Casino alongside DJ Fakts One on Tuesday, Sept. 19. The performance comes on the heels of ...

Watch hip-hop veterans Mr. Lif and Akrobatik team up behind the Tiny Desk. Mr. Lif and Akrobatik are two emcees whose names rock bells among true hip-hop heads. The duo of Boston natives first teamed ...

When revered Boston MCs Mr. Lif and Akrobatik first united to put out “Black Dialogue,” their debut record as the Perceptionists, Barack Obama was still an Illinois senator and the iPhone was just a ...

They grew up with Guru, KRS-1 and A Tribe Called Quest. They came of age with Willie McGinest, Tom Brady and Kevin Faulk. Now in 2005, they have come together to form the Perceptionists. The three ...

The two emcees in the Perceptionists are hip-hop’s answer to Mutt and Jeff, the towering, linebacker-sized Akrobatik flipping rhymes with the diminutive, dreadlocked Mr. Lif. They trade lines at ...

The bicoastal Boston/Berkeley MC Mr. Lif makes the sort of politically charged Bolshevik boom-bap that warms the coffee of both old-school hip-hop fans and MoveOn.org activists. Which — despite what ...

Their conscious ethos is perfectly encapsulated by Ak's lyrical run on "A Different Light," where he raps: "But I'm above all of the melodrama / When they go low / We go high / Michelle Obama." The ...

Mr. Lif and Akrobatik are two emcees whose names rock bells among true hip-hop heads. The duo of Boston natives first teamed up as The Perceptionists in the early aughts to release Black Dialogue on ...