Sage Francis
Paul William "Sage" Francis (born November 18, 1976) is an American hip hop recording artist and spoken word poet from Providence, Rhode Island. He is a founder of Strange Famous Records.
Francis began writing and recording original lyrics at age 8, being inspired by acts such as Run DMC and Public Enemy. According to artistdirect.com, Francis began sneaking out of his parent's house at age 12 to participate in rap battles.
Career
Francis is a founder and CEO of the independent hip hop record label Strange Famous Records. The label first began as a way for him to release his previously unreleased songs in the late 1990s. It has since evolved into an official enterprise with an expanding roster of like-minded artists. He released several Sick Of mixtapes available on his website.
Francis won the Scribble Jam emcee battle in 2000. In 2001, the song "Makeshift Patriot," recorded on October 11, 2001, became an Internet hit for its critique of American media during, and immediately following, the September 11 attacks. He released the critically acclaimed first solo album Personal Journals in 2002. He signed to Epitaph Records, making himself the first hip hop artist to sign with the punk rock label. He subsequently released three albums with Epitaph Records; A Healthy Distrust, Human the Death Dance and Li(f)e.
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ALBUMS
- Copper Gone released: 2014
- Li(f)e released: 2010
- Sick of Wasting released: 2009
- Human the Death Dance released: 2007
- Still Sickly Business released: 2005
- Road Tested (2003-2005) released: 2005
- A Healthy Distrust released: 2005
- Dead Poet Live Album released: 2004
- Sickly Business released: 2004
- Personal Journals released: 2002
- Sick of Waiting Tables released: 2001
- The Known Unsoldier: "Sick of Waging War" released: 2001
- The Live Antagonist released: 2000
- Still Sick... Urine Trouble released: 2000
- Sick to D(eat)h released:
- 2004-01-16: Olympia, WA, USA released:
Still Sickly Business
Released 2005- Hey Bobby (remix)
- Time of My Life Redux
- Locksmith (Snippet Verse)
- My Head
- Andy Kaufman
- Love Love Love
- Stuck
- Garden Gnomes
- Come Come Now
- Strange Famous (Spoken Word - live)
- Back Packer (live)
- Killing Time (live)
- Eye of the Tiger
- Damage 96 (live)
- Doomage
- 99 Rappers (live)
- Pen to the Gun Fight (live)
- Majority Rule
- Threewrite
- Life Is What Distracts You From Death (live)
- KFC
- Whore Monger Freestyle (live)
- Whore Monger
- Mullet (live)
Road Tested (2003-2005)
Released 2005- Holy Rollin' (SOS 05)
- Runaways (Gruvis Malt 03)
- Sign From God (Gimme Fund 04)
- Bang Bang Boogie / Climb Trees (Gruvis Malt 03)
- Broken Wings (Gruvis Malt 03)
- Specialist (Gruvis Malt 03)
- Kiddie Litter Spoken Word (04)
- Sea Lion Extended (SOS 05)
- Inherited Scars (Gruvis Malt 03)
- White Wedding (Gruvis Malt 03)
- Makeshift Patriot (Gruvis Malt 03)
- Majority Rule (Gruvis Malt 03)
- Rewrite / 50 Ways (Gruvis Malt 03)
- Crack Pipes / Product Placement (SOS 05)
- Dirty (Gruvis Malt 05)
- What's Your Name (Gruvis Malt 05)
- Underbite Ben Finds God Spoken Word (03)
- Cafe Girl / Capaccino (Gimme Fund 04)
- Slum Lord Intermission (03)
- Next Testament (Gimme Fund 04)
- Bridle Extended (SOS 05)
Dead Poet Live Album
Released 2004- Makeshift Patriot
- Hey Bobby
- Specialist
- Grand Daddy Told Me
- Majority Rule
- Rewrite (50 Ways)
- Crack Pipes
- What's Your Name?
- Bang Bang Boogie
- Come Come Now
- Inherited Scars
- White Wedding
- 'I'm Sorry' Freestyle
- Black Sweatshirt
- Whoremonger
- Emperor's New Clothes
- Dirty
- Slumlord
- Dr. Feel Nathan
- Broken Wings
- Amtrak Blues (C.R Avery)
Sickly Business
Released 2004- The Masters are Back (Non-Prophets)
- The Failure Disc 2 #6 (Bernard Dolan)
- Love, Love, Love (Non-Prophets)
- Stuck
- Garden Gnomes
- Killing Time (live on 90.3 WRIU)
- Alternatives to College
- Souvenier (Non-Prophets)
- Threewrite (Non-Prophets)
- Tree of Knowledge
- 1996 Verse (live on 90.3 WRIU)
- Doomage
- My Girl Was a Groupie (Joe Beats)
- Lost Verse of the Mainstream (Non-Prophets)
- My Head
- Worlds of After Verse (live on 90.3 WRIU)
- Jesus in a Bowl of Germs (Jared Paul)
- Kiddie Litter
- Killing Muslims (George McKibbens)
- Sandpaper Gloves (AOI)
- 1995 Medley
- Underbite Ben (live in Sioux Falls)
Sick of Waiting Tables
Released 2001- Iceland Radio Intro - Vital Signs
- Drop Bass
- Who's Crying?
- Rewrite
- Day Grows Old
- Narcissist (live on WRIU)
- Emperor's New Clothing
- Orphanage Freestyle Part I Live
- Intuition
- When Freedom Rings (snippet verse) - Whip It
- Follow Me (snippet verse)
- Gun Gods
- Sage and Clokworx on 88.9 WBRU - Sage, Phes, and Vocab on 90.3 WRIU
- The BEST of the Underground Kid Battle
- I Apologize
- Trite
- Oliver Twisted
- Testimony
- I Keep Calling
- Respect the Broccoli Cock
- Swedish Fish
- Orphanage Freestyle Part II Live
- Bounce (live)
- MC Shut Up
The Known Unsoldier: "Sick of Waging War"
Released 2001- Commercial Radio Advice (intro)
- Narcissist
- Mourning Aftermath
- Makeshift Patriot
- Freestyle Confession
- Can I Kick It?
- Hang Time (Bang Bang Boogie)
- Mutiny
- I'm Gonna Getcha
- Mermaids Are Seasluts
- Embarrassed
- Inner Conflict
- How to Write a Political Poem
- This Is Not a Dis Freestyle
- AOI Jam
- I'm Not a Hater
- Questions Their Motives Freestyle
- Cafe Girl
- Not What I Am
- Dirty Mac
- The Write
- Love Letters From Hell (outro)
- [untitled]
The Live Antagonist
Released 2000- Rewrite
- Backpacker
- Souvenir
- Word Play
- What You Can and Can't Say
- Bounce
- Kick It
- Cup of Tea
- Crack Pipes
- Narcissist
- Come Come Now
- Whoremonger
- Freestyle 1
- Mermaids Are Sea Sluts
- Makeshift Patriot
- Backpacker Jam
- Weak Link
- Freestyle 2
- Majority Rule
- Sage Killz
- Word Play (version 2)
- You Don't Want Me Here
- Sandpaper Gloves
- Kick It, Hang High, Whoremonger
- Mutiny
- Rewrite (remix)
- Freestyle 3
- Drop Bass
- Freestyle 4
- Specialist
- Freestyle 5
- Narcissist
- Makeshift Patriot (remix)
- Stealing Jay-Z's Steez
- Sandpaper Gloves (version 2)
Still Sick... Urine Trouble
Released 2000- The Time of My Life
- Majority Rule
- Backpacker
- Slug & Sage Freestyle, Part I
- Eye of the Tiger
- Strange Famous Radio Rhyme
- All Word No Play
- Life Is What Distracts You From Death
- Freestyle
- Whore Monger Sing-Along
- Sage & Sixtoo
- Mullet
- Come Come Now
- Her Schlag
- Apathy & Sage Freestyle, Part I
- KFC
- Slug & Sage Freestyle, Part II
- Live Recording of EDAN With AOI at the Met Cafe
- Strange Famous Spoken Word
- The Short-Necked Giraffe
- Andy Kaufman
Sick to D(eat)h
- STD (intro)
- Gimme Dat
- Zero (demo)
- Blue
- Slow D(eat)h (demo)
- Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead to Me
- Viva La Vinyl
- You Can't Win
- Breaking 2bad
- Let 'Em Come Redux
- Dark Arts Abridged
- Rehab (demo)
- High Step (demo)
- The Pastor Sleeps Fine (interlude)
- Origin to Descent
- Tree of Knowledge (spoken word)
- There Is a Better Way
- Ubuntu (Water Into Wine)
- Don't Think vs. Rebel Yellow
- Baby Stays (live on BBC)
- I Don't Know (demo)
- Kid Profit Freestyle Outtakes (1994 Bedroom Cypher)
- Life is an STD (demo)
- Years (demo)
2004-01-16: Olympia, WA, USA
- DJ (intro)
- Jah Didn't Kill Johnny
- The Time of My Life
- Simon Says Freestyle
- Damage
- Damage Cont. (a cappella)
- That Ain't Right
- Sage Banter
- Broken Wings
- Spaceman
- Sage Banter
- Spoken Word
- Specalist
- Narcissist
- Sage Banter
- Crack Pipes
- Runaways
- Hey Bobby
- Makeshift Patriot (intro)
- Makeshift Patriot
- Centaur Freestyle
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Underbite Ben Finds God Spoken Word (03)
by: Sage FrancisI remember once I found God. He was so happy. I found
him in
the card catalog at the public library. Nobody looks
there
anymore. Thanks to duey decimal I found him. Feasting
on his
manhood just to stay alive. He could have feasted off
that
monster for centuries. Serious, he was hung like this.
figure finding god might win you automatic entry into
Hellven but no. I have to fool myself there, just like
everybody else. Then I said, "AH, CAN I GET THREE
WISHES?!"
"I'm not that kind of god", he said. He did teach me
sign
language so I wouldn't have to fog up my mirror with
these
long winded self-evaluations every morning. "Look at
you,
concave man." You know what concave means? We have a
young
crowd. It means I have an innie instead of an outie.
best thing about being concave, besides having your
balls
look so huge and out of place, it's the midgets. They
crawl
inside and paint pictures on the wall. A little person
died
there once. That's what I mean when I mention the
ghosts.
I'm haunted, down there. Welcome to my world. It's a
world
where all the well endowed animals of this planet
simultaneously die from a horrible case of womb envy.
It's a
world where Natalie Portman stalks me, and she's still
and it's ok, 'cause it's my world baby. It's a world
where
when you multiply a negative number by a negative
number,
you don't get a positive number, YOU GET A BIGGER
NEGATIVE
NUMBER! And I don't have to *beatboxes* to keep you
interested. Mommies don't die, she never left me, and
there's not dark sweat marks where my fucking heart
should
be. When I fly, it's first class bitch. All they serve
vegetarian meals on my flight. The guy on the side of
me's
pissed. "Excuse me. Please check the back, see if you
one with chicken in it maybe? Maybe someone could get
chicken." "I'm sorry sir, you gotta call forty-eight
hours
ahead of time to get your meat meal." He's none too
pleased,
so he calls me on his cellphone, to tell me about his,
superbowl show! I DON'T KNOW! Wanna flow? Go to go. Toe
toe. I don't rock polo. He gets bombarded by all these
public service announcments that let him know, "YOU
SUPPORTED TERRORISM BY PAYING TAXES and driving all
over the
place, you could have just fucking walked down the
street."
FACT! And I laughed, all the way to the sperm banks,
soccer
mom. Haha, it's not my world, it's his. The big white
guy in
the sky. I'm stuck down here, lookin' into my foggy
mirror,
peering into my concave, practicing my math on all you
poor
aborted fetus's. Reminding myself how far away I am
from
God. I chopped off my dick, shoved it into my asshole,
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