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Paul "Sage" Francis (born November 18, 1976 in Miami , Florida ) is an American hip-hop musician from Providence , Rhode Island .
Musical career
Prior to his MC career , Sage Francis was known as a slam poet . In the late 1990s, he recorded his first demo tape (1996), fronted the now defunct hip-hop band Art Official Intelligence, and hosted the weekly True School Sessions radio program on the non-commercial regional radio station WRIU.
He founded the group Non-Prophets with producer Joe Beats. This released two 12 "(Drop Bass / Bounce / I Keep Callin, Emerge Records, 1999 and All Word No Play / Majority Rule / Whore Monger Sing-Along, Emerge Music, 2000) before the 2003 debut album was released Long- playing record Hope (Lex Records) followed in 2003. As a freestyle rapper, Sage Francis won the "Scribble Jam" in 2000 and competed again in 2001 under the pseudonym Xaul Zan .
He often works with other artists from the US underground hip-hop scene such as Slug , the late Eyedea , Daddy Kev and the Anticon collective. There is also a loose connection with The Orphanage. He also collaborated with the British rapper Scroobius Pip , on whose label Speech Development Records Francis' album Copper Gone was released in Great Britain.
One of his most famous tracks is Makeshift Patriot , a commentary on the US media one month after the 9/11 attacks , which he released both as an MP3 file on the Internet and on a limited 7 " single . Sage Francis became the first hip-hop artist to release with a punk record company when he signed a contract with Epitaph Records in 2003 for three albums.
His album Li (f) e was released in 2010 on ANTI-Records , a sub-label of Epitaph. Thanks to the involvement of various non-hip-hop songwriters such as Jason Lytle from Grandaddy , Chris Walla from Death Cab for Cutie and Mark Linkous from Sparklehorse , a number of pop , rock and country borrowings can be found in the new songs.
In addition to his studio albums, a number of mixtapes were released, most of which had a "sick of ..." or something similar in the title.
Discography
Studio albums
- 2002: Personal Journals ( Anticon )
- 2005: A Healthy Distrust ( Epitaph Records )
- 2007: Human the Death Dance (Epitaph Records)
- 2010: Li (f) e ( Anti )
- 2014: Copper Gone (Strange Famous Records)
Mix tapes
- 1999: Sick of Waiting ...
- 2000: Still Sick… Urine Trouble (Strange Famous Records)
- 2000: Sick of Waiting Tables (Strange Famous Records)
- 2001: The Known Unsoldier “Sick Of Waging War…” (Strange Famous Records)
- 2004: Sickly Business (Strange Famous Records)
- 2005: Still Sickly Business (Strange Famous Records)
- 2009: Sick of Wasting (Strange Famous Records)
- 2013: Sick to D (eat) h (Strange Famous Records)
Live albums
- 2004: Dead Poet Live Album (Strange Famous Records)
- 2005: Road Tested (2003-2005) (Strange Famous Records)
Non-prophets
- 2003: Hope (Lex Records)
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Web links
- Works by and about Sage Francis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website
- Interview with Sage Francis
- Say Francis at laut.de.
- Say Francis at last.fm
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| SURNAME | Francis, Sage |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Francis, Paul (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American rapper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miami , Florida , USA |