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Sage Francis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis is a contemporary of underground hip-hop artists such as Slug, Eyedea, and the anticon. Francis set up his own record label Strange Famous Records through which he has put out the majority of his records, mostly collections of live songs, radio freestyles and spoken word tracks. Francis holds two degrees, an AA in communications from Massachusetts' Dean College, and a BA in journalism from the University of Rhode Island. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sage_Francis   (602 words)

:: MVRemix Interviews - Sage Francis :: Sage Francis is a well known independent emcee who has worked with The Molemen, various Anticon label artists and is part of the group AOI and Non-Prophets. Sage Francis: Most of the songs are in the same vain as 'Inherited Scars.' That was the point of this album. Sage Francis: If humanity was a stick, they would be on the shit end of it. urban.mvremix.com /interviews/sage.shtml   (1257 words)

Downhill Battle - Sage Francis Interview Sage Francis is a rapper out of Providence, RI and half of Non-Prophets (the other half is DJ Joe Beats). Sage made a reputation for himself by consistently winning poetry slams and freestyling competitions, and has built something of a cult following. SAGE: Great scenes are created when local talent is given an opportunity to develop their creativity. www.downhillbattle.org /interviews/sage_francis.html   (1339 words)

Epitaph Records Sage Francis began rapping when he was 8 years old. Sage Francis is many things to many people---and probably even more to himself---but if there's anything he isn't, it's quiet. The album was an extended homage to the music Sage grew up with, overflowing with Old School allusion and wordplay. www.epitaph.com /artists/artist/138   (1299 words)

Sage Francis Sage Francis is both a super ego created in the shadows of Paul Francis and a disemboweled head on a stake as a warning to all who seek to find answers to the great abyss. Francis is a busy man; in addition to being one half of the Providence, R.I., rap duo Non-Prophets, which also includes DJ Joe Beats, he has also recorded with the group AOI, and released many EP’s and 7-inches as an independent emcee. In the works for the Francis are numerous projects: a documentary-style DVD of live performances and backstage action, a new record to be released on his own label, a spoken-word album, a live album, and, finally, a three-album deal with Epitaph Records. www.marqueemag.com /03_04/Sage_Mar.html   (506 words)

Sage Francis-Personal Journals - The CHUD.COM Message Boards It is just about too late to become a fan of Sage Francis; after years of his incorrigible voice being relegated to the sunken lands of Rhode Island and the internet, he is about to step out into the open air. Sage's experience as a poet comes out not only in his effortless language play, but in his realization that love is at the center of every lyric, and that love always covers something awful-- a Band Aid stretched over a bullet wound. Sage slides into a solemn tone in "Cup of Tea," and becomes frankly morose in "Runaways." Damaged pride tumbles in "Personal Journalist," where the "avant guardian angel" attempts to subvert the expectations and claims made of him by accusing himself in the third person. www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=25184   (1042 words)

Sage Francis News Sage Francis is not the first rapper to write lyrics befitting a journalist's credo to inform and question. While hip-hop artist and slam poet Sage Francis has had his share of victories in the battle-rhyme scene, it's not what he is into at the moment. With labels as diverse as Sage Francis and From First to Last signing with the Californian punk label, Epitaph announced its samplers will now be titled Unsound. www.topix.net /who/sage-francis   (554 words)

Treble: Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust Sage Francis has never been repentant about his beliefs, and he uses his music to share them with the world. Sage Francis has made nothing but good music in the past, this is true. This was probably where Sage acquired most of his "indie" fans because of the album's spoken word or beat-poetry feel. www.treblezine.com /viewer.cgi?id=495&type=r   (678 words)

IGN: Sage Francis Revealed Beat poet, Old School purist, and genuine microphone fiend, Sage Francis is one of the saviors of post-millennial rap thanks to his edgy lyricism, love of low-end theory, and keen socio-political insight. Sage Francis: That's impossible for me to say right now, because I don't want to predict what the outcome of it is. I know how I am. Sage Francis: I didn't listen to punk growing up. music.ign.com /articles/528/528072p1.html   (752 words)

VPRO 3VOOR12 JOURNALISM: 3VOOR12 recenseert Disque Pop (week 6): Sage Francis Sage Francis was de eerste hiphopper die door het onafhankelijke punkrocklabel werd getekend. Sage Francis is het boegbeeld van de underground hiphop scene van Amerika. Het album A Healthy Distrust van Sage Francis is tijdelijk op de luisterpaal te beluisteren. 3voor12.vpro.nl /3voor12/magazines/news/index.jsp?portals=2534202&magazines=10719222&news=21194250   (509 words)

urb :: feature :: sage francis Sage Francis is a packrat, with so much archived material stored away he claims even his mind is cluttered. In fact, Francis seems like the sort of person whose every sentence is declarative, each statement delivered with such conviction that it’s hard to tell whether there’s any vulnerability in him at all. As he’s quick to stress throughout his discussion of Eminem, Francis is satisfied with his own little slice of domestic bliss, counting himself a happy homeowner who’s been living together with his girlfriend (who makes a cameo on “Sea Lion”) for over a year now. www.urb.com /online/features/sage.shtml   (1724 words)

The Badger Herald - University of Wisconsin-Madison Sage Francis is more than a rapper; he takes his art to the level of action and impressively succeeds. Francis — who earned a black belt when he was 17 — demonstrated a kung-fu stance or two in his relentless stage routine and went shoeless just as if he had stepped onto the sparring mat ready to deliver a steady flow of knockout blows to the rapt audience. At one point, Francis told the crowd he was going to stop rapping for the rest of the night: “In fact, I’m not going to use my voice at all.” Then he pulled out his de-facto secret weapon: the $5 Mexican squeezebox accordion. badgerherald.com /artsetc/2005/10/19/sage_francis_enterta.php   (1108 words)

Urban Dictionary: sage francis Since 1996, Sage Francis has embarked upon an impressive and successfully independent career based on lies and integrity. Francis was also a big component of the Poetry Slam scene before Def Poetry Jam stole his ideas and allowed Mos Def to appear as if he had a genuine interest in spoken word. Multiple albums were released on his independent label Strange Famous Records, but Personal Journals was his first commercial release on Anticon Records in 2002. www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=sage+francis   (731 words)

SAGE FRANCIS personal journals Sage Francis managed to produce a personal document about himself (which all rappers do) which pleases the brain as well as the ears. In this respect Sage Francis owes a lot to De La Soul, I guess, but his way of live is much more personal and interested in the private aspects of his community and circle of friends. Even though one and a half dozen different people provided material, from beats to music to scratches, for this record, Sage Francis managed to produce an impressingly tight and compact record, that has its very own style throughout, even though he will take you some long distances. www.monochrom.at /cracked/reviews/Rev%20Francis.htm   (567 words)

Sage Francis :: Sick of Waiting Tables :: Strange Famous Records But as an introduction to Sage Francis, this is a great place to start, as it exhibits one of Sage's greatest strengths as an MC: his diversity. Don't know about the second question, but I can tell you that Sage Francis is straight out of Rhode Island, was the winner of the 2000 Scribble Jam Freestyle Battle, and is quite busy with a variety of projects, including his career as a spoken-word poet. Sage himself makes it very clear on the back cover that this is NOT an offical album, so let the buyer beware. www.rapreviews.com /archive/2001_12_tables.html   (669 words)

Midheaven Mailorder Browse by Artist: SAGE FRANCIS A quintessential live SAGE FRANCIS album featuring the music, spoken word, and manic banter of an abused road dog. Sage or "Stage Presence" has gained a reputation from ripping live shows with his emotionally intense songs, freestyles, and spoken words, but this album provides a comprehensive and definitive introduction to a very different kind of MC and person. Sage was picked by URB in their April 2001 issue as one of the "Next 100" www.midheaven.com /artists/sage.francis.html   (1163 words)

ukhh.com reviews nonuk Sage Francis - Personal Journals Contrary to his sarcastic assertion “I am different in a different way,” Sage Francis’s debut album fits right in with both Anticon and the general sway of US hiphop in 2002. As Sage looks back through his life and relationships, the strength of the Maternal bond and fears of abandonment are repeatedly implied as the source of the adult Sage’s fear of committing andbeing intimate. It is apparent that Francis wrote much of the album Reeling from a breakup and this has compelled him to realise, through art, the most important relationship in his life; namely that between himself and his mother. www.ukhh.com /reviews/nonuk/1112.html   (1112 words)

Sage Francis: Personal Journals: Pitchfork Review Sage Francis lets it all hang out on Personal Journals, his first major solo release, using his assertive rapping and thick exterior to deliver a startlingly self-revelatory album. The Anticon hip-hop collective-- of which Sage Francis is some kind of member now-- have a reputation for brainy, convoluted lyrics and wordy self-examinations. Francis' relationship with his mother could fill volumes, and every track is full of haunting images and vague, unresolved guilt and blame. www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/f/francis_sage/personal-journals.shtml   (608 words)

M La Music - Sage Francis "A Healthy Distrust" Sage Francis expose ses dons en un bouquet de morceaux, parfois très concis, atteignant une durée raisonnable. Mais Sage Francis menait quelques projets parallèles : un album avec ses Non-Prophets, un autre aux côtés de Buck 65 et DJ Signify, ainsi qu'une série de disques auto-produits ("Sick of Waiting", "Still Sick"). Et, beaucoup plus personnel, Sage Francis n'omet quiconque, puisque "Voice Mail Bomb Threat" nous dévoile en partie une complexe affaire de paiements de concerts en diffusant un message qu'il aurait reçu, d'un individu bien moins doué que lui quant aux choix des mots. www.m-la-music.net /article.php3?id_article=1992   (821 words)

Modern Fix Over thumping boom-bap and hard basslines Sage Francis proves he is not only one incredible wordsmith but a true humanitarian (“I attended candlelight vigils for Matthew Sheppard/ While you put out another fuck you faggot’ record”). Released only one month after the tragic events, Sage was not going to let the smoke and mirrors put up by the Bush administration blind him, as he brought up the issues of corrupt journalism and using a tragedy to bring the world more tragedy in the form of war. And if you wait until autumn of this year, you can grab Sage’s first release off of the punk powerhouse, Epitaph, which promises to be his most political record ever. www.modernfix.com /features/42/sage.htm   (399 words)

Blogcritics.org: Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust Sage Francis is Epitaph's first hip hop artist and it's easy to see why they signed him. The first song I heard from Sage Francis was "Hey Bobby," which actually is from his band Non-Prophets, a collaboration between Sage and Joe Beats. Sage Francis is better than Eminem on his best day. www.blogcritics.org /archives/2005/02/15/020359.php   (1939 words)

Sage Francis - Personal Journals - Stylus Magazine Sage Francis deserves to be held, and held close. Wistful, dusty funk permeates much of the album, infusing it with an audible approximation of Sage Francis’ sad soul. Sure, they will regale you with stories of their depressing childhood -- perhaps to gain approval, perhaps to keep you at a distance -- but if anyone deserves to be listened to, it would be these survivors, these lost children who were ignored when they should have been held. www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=420   (970 words)

Hour.ca - Music - Spin - A Healthy Distrust - Sage Francis The first time I heard about Sage Francis was while listening to an Epitaph CD, and oddly misplaced among a sea full of metal, screamo and emo songs, a rare jewel appeared in the form of "Sea Lion". But then Sage Francis floats his new album down the river and you climb in and drift happily over and away from the nonsense. After listening to some of the songs off the record, Sage Francis has truly managed to change my mind about the sad state of rap music nowadays. www.hour.ca /music/spin.aspx?iIDDisque=2656   (429 words)

Sage Francis: A Healthy Distrust: Pitchfork Review Of course, I don't think Sage Francis is going to make anyone change their minds or behavior, and he doesn't seem to think so either. Ever the realist, Francis doesn't seem to hold any hope of closing these wounds, political or personal--his invective is depressive and irate, imbued with a sense of determined futility. On A Healthy Distrust, Francis continues to refine his contradictory blend of trash talk and activism, political polemic and introspection, pedantic bluster and profound insecurity. www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/f/francis_sage/healthy-distrust.shtml   (636 words)

World Wide Connected HipHop & RnB - Content Sage Francis expresses his ruptured emotions in emotional words which come together to form poetry. Sage Francis is straightforward and doesn’t hide his views. Sage Francis comes up with some of his best lyrics on the album. www.worldwideconnected.com /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=466   (984 words)

Sage Francis + C40 next Monday - Thumped Hailing from Rhode Island, U.S.A., SAGE FRANCIS has it all - the multi-syllabic rhyme structures of Eminem, the honest poetics of Sole, the abstract conceptualism of Aesop Rock or a young Pharaohe Monch, and the raw, emotional soul of Common. mix cds to whet his audience’s appetite, Sage Francis released his long awaited debut album Personal Journals - a penetrating analysis of the life and mind of the artist - on leftfield U.S. Hip-hop label Anticon this year. Not even those who had followed Sage from the beginning of his career could be prepared for how well all of the elements of his complex character come together on the album. www.thumped.com /bbs/showthread.php?t=3998   (668 words)

Sage Francis: A Healthy Distrust (2005): Reviews A Healthy Distrust reinforces Sage Francis’ standing as one of the most verbally gifted rappers currently in the game, but it lacks the cohesive flow of Personal Journals and complains about a host of worldly ills without offering much in the way of a positive solution. Sage transcends genre limitations and expectations with restless energy and poetic turns of phrase that keep his mystery (or, arguably, his lack of defined answers) intriguing rather than irritating. If that happens, Sage might be unjustly perceived as a contemporary of the hyperlexic Sole who thinks that rambling is a plausible style of rapping. www.metacritic.com /music/artists/francissage/healthydistrust   (1017 words)

peta2 // Out There // "See through the lies the meat industry feeds you." -Sage Francis Sage Francis was well aware of our little secret and knocked out a few rhymes when we caught up with him a couple years back at Scribble Jam. Sage dove right in and stars in our latest ad, which shows him hanging out on a bridge, about to rip into a plateful of vegetarian goodness. But make no mistake about it—although Sage may appear relaxed and inviting, his words are straight to the point: “See through the lies the meat industry feeds you—go vegetarian.” www.peta2.com /OUTTHERE/o-sagefrancis.asp?c=1417   (321 words)

DOA - Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust Sage Francis is one of those artists who have long tip-toed along the boundaries, frequently misunderstood and mislabeled; as an example, he was branded an emo-rapper until his release under the Non-Prophets moniker, Hope, showed his ability to express universal trends alongside personal issues. A Healthy Distrust, Sage’s second full-length under his Sage Francis moniker and third in total, is another collection of songs concerning love, war, politics, and culture. Francis has phrased his sentiment on the subject far better in his previous work. www.adequacy.net /review.php?reviewid=5203   (739 words)

Creative Loafing Atlanta VIBES BUSHWHACKER One of the underground's most fervent activists, Rhode Island's Sage Francis is to hip-hop what John McCain is to the Republicans: a stranger in his own party. Francis turns his gaze inward and needles the intent and commitment of so-called revolutionaries when he rhymes, "When push turns to shove, you jump into your forefather's arms/He's a banker, you're part of the system/off go the dreadlocks, in comes the income." In a genre beset by hyper-masculine leaps of bravado, Francis has managed to eke out material that is deeply personal, displaying an inward vulnerability and emotional nuance that is alien to the mainstream. www.atlanta.creativeloafing.com /2005-03-09/vibes_feature4.html   (523 words)

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