Rapper, activist, and cultural provocateur Sage Francis offers his most personal and fully realized work on Human The Death Dance, his second Anti/Epitaph release. With topics ranging from 9-to-5 cubicle madness to addiction to sex and hip hop, Francis delves into very real issues with wit and intensity. On moving tracks like "Hell Of A Year", "Woke Up This Morning" and "Keep Moving," Sage examines broken relationships with a brutal honesty reminiscent of Dylan's Blood On The Tracks. Hailing from Providence RI, Sage has a unique place in hip hop history, building a huge fanbase through tireless grassroots self promotion, as chronicled in the CD opener "Undergound for Dummies." Equally comfortable in rap battle or a poetry slam, Francis will hit the road this spring in support of Human the Death Dance, with Buck 65 and Alias, a highly anticipated tour for fans of hip-hop and alternative alike.
Product Details
Sage Francis - Human The Death Dance Format: CD, Release Date: May 8 2007, Number of Discs: 1, Label: Epitaph Records, Produced by: Odd Nosdam; Mr. Cooper; Buck 65; Alias; Sixtoo; Ant; Big Cats; Kurtis SP!; Miles Bonny; Reanimator
Track Listings:
1. Growing Pains 2. Underground For Dummies 3. Civil Obedience 4. Got Up This Morning 5. Good Fashion 6. Clickety Clack 7. Midgets and Giants 8. Broccoli Break 9. High Step 10. Keep Moving 11. Water Line 12. Black Out On White Night 13. Hell Of A Year 14. Call Me Francois 15. Hoofprints In The Sand 16. Going Back To Rehab
Artist Info/ BIO
Paul "Sage" Francis (born November 15th, 1976[citation needed] in Miami, Florida) is a hip-hop artist based in Providence, Rhode Island. Sage Francis' style blends a varying tone and delivery with subject matter that focuses on intricate sequences of widely varying imagery, metaphors, the occasional pun, absurdism, and pop culture references, while including touchstones of traditional hip hop such as storytelling and self-promotion. As a battle rapper, Francis won the 2000 Scribble Jam, a competition considered to be the most sought after prize in the freestyle battling scene. He then came back the next year to finish as a semifinalist. 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 is a contemporary of underground hip-hop artists such as Slug, Aesop Rock, and the anticon. collective. He is also loosely affiliated with the vague underground hip-hop super-group The Orphanage. Sage Francis Albums include, ‘Personal Journals’ (anticon 2002), ‘Hope’ (as Non-Prophets) (Lex Records 2003), ‘A Healthy Distrust’ (Epitaph Records 2005), and ‘Human The Death Dance’ (Epitaph Records 2007), among others.
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