Monday, 11 August 2008
Sage Francis
Artist: Sage Francis
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Other
Discography:
Human the Death Dance
Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
Road Tested 2003-2005
Year: 2006
Tracks: 21
Healthy Distrust
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
Sickly Business
Year: 2004
Tracks: 22
Dead Poet Live Album
Year: 2004
Tracks: 21
A Healthy Distrust
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Sick Of Waging War
Year: 2002
Tracks: 21
Personal Journals
Year: 2002
Tracks: 19
Still Sick...
Year:
Tracks: 21
Born Paul Francis in 1977 in Miami, FL, Sage Francis exhausted to the highest degree of his youth in Providence, RI. Interested in the poetic side of rap, Francis has been riming since age octet, afterwards victorious the Superbowl Battle in Boston in 1999 and the Scribble Jam in Cincinnati in 2000 and 2001 (the last under the name of his "metal" change self, Xaul Zan). After graduating from Dean College in Massachusetts with an A.A. in communication theory and from the University of Rhode Island-Kingston with a B.A. in journalism (where he started the now-defunct mathematical group Art Official Intelligence), Francis worked on releasing his solo records. Always an dull and political rapper and a strict vegetarian, he started the Sick Of series in 2000 on his primary Strange Famous Records with Still Sick...Urine Trouble, and continued with Sick of Waiting Tables (2001), Sick of Waging War (from 2002, and containing the single "Make-do Patriot," recorded exactly unrivalled month later the September 11 attacks on New York), and Sickly Business (2004). He too released one album on Anticon in 2002, Personal Journals, and was sign in 2004 as the starting time rap creative person on Epitaph Records, which issued his extremely hoped-for A Healthy Distrust in 2005. Two age later he was operative with composer/trumpeter Mark Isham on the soundtrack for Pridefulness and Glory prima Edward Norton. Two tracks from these seance all over up on Francis' have 2007 full-length, Human the Death Dance. Sage Francis is unitary half of the Non-Prophets (Joe Beats is the producer and DJ), wHO outset recorded the 12" Drop Bass/Bounce/I Keep Calling on their friend's Emerge Records in 1999. A uncut record album on Lax Records, Hope, came out in 2004.
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