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Sage Francis - Civil Obedience
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Sage Francis - Dance Monkey
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Sage Francis - Fresh
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Sage Francis - 16 Years
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Sage Francis - Agony In Her Body
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Sage Francis - All Word No Play
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Sage Francis - Andy Kaughman
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Sage Francis - Apathy And Sage On Tone Capones Show 903 Wriu
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Sage Francis - Black Out On White Night
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Sage Francis - Black Sweatshirt
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Sage Francis - Bridle
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Sage Francis - Broccilude
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Sage Francis - Broken Wings
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Sage Francis - Buckets Of Silence
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Sage Francis - Cafe Girl
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Sage Francis - Call Me Francois
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Sage Francis - Can I Kick It?
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Sage Francis - Clickety Clack
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Sage Francis - Climb Trees
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Sage Francis - Come Come Now
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Sage Francis - Conspiracy To Riot
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Sage Francis - Crack Pipes
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Sage Francis - Crumble
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Sage Francis - Cup Of Tea
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Sage Francis - Damage
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Sage Francis - Diamonds And Pearls
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Sage Francis - Different
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Sage Francis - Dirty Mac
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Sage Francis - Disasters
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Sage Francis - Doomage Damage
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Sage Francis - Escape Artist
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Sage Francis - Eviction Notice
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Sage Francis - Eye Of The Tiger
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Sage Francis - Flashback 96
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Sage Francis - Follow Me Snippet Verse
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Sage Francis - Garden Gnomes
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Sage Francis - Going Back To Rehab
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Sage Francis - Good Fashion
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Sage Francis - Got Up This Morning
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Sage Francis - Ground Control
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Sage Francis - Gunz Yo
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Sage Francis - Haunted House Party
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Sage Francis - Hell Of A Year
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Sage Francis - Hey Bobby
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Sage Francis - High Step
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Sage Francis - Hoofprints In The Sand
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Sage Francis - Hopeless
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Sage Francis - House Of Bees
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Sage Francis - I Apologize Featuring Sole
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Sage Francis - I Keep Calling
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Sage Francis - I Was Zero
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Sage Francis - I'm Afraid Featuring Sole
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Sage Francis - Inherited Scars
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Sage Francis - Inner Conflict
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Sage Francis - Jah Didn't Kill Johnny
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Sage Francis - Jesus In A Bowl Of Germs
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Sage Francis - Keep Moving
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Sage Francis - Killing Time Live On 90.3
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Sage Francis - Lie Detector Test
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Sage Francis - Life Is What Distracts You From Death
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Sage Francis - Little Houdini
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Sage Francis - London Bridge
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Sage Francis - Love The Lie
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Sage Francis - Mainstream 307 Non Prophets
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Sage Francis - Majority Rule
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Sage Francis - Makeshift Patroit
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Sage Francis - Mermaids Are Sea Sluts (spoken word piece performed on 90.3 WRIU)
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Sage Francis - Message Sent
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Sage Francis - Midgets And Giants
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Sage Francis - Mullet (Spoken Word Recorded Live At The Met Café, 1998)
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Sage Francis - Mutiny
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Sage Francis - My Name Is Strange
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Sage Francis - Narcissist (live On 90.3 Wriu)
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Sage Francis - Needle
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Sage Francis - Next Testament
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Sage Francis - Oliver Twisted
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Sage Francis - Orphanage Freestyle Part Ii Featuring Aesop Rock Slug And Eyedea
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Sage Francis - Pen To The Gun Fight
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Sage Francis - Personal Journalist
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Sage Francis - Pitchers Of Silence
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Sage Francis - Polterzeitgeist
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Sage Francis - Product Placement
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Sage Francis - Rewrite
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Sage Francis - Runaways
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Sage Francis - Sea Lion
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Sage Francis - Slow Down Gandhi
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Sage Francis - Smoke And Mirrors
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Sage Francis - Souvenier (Unreleased)
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Sage Francis - Specialist
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Sage Francis - Strange Famous (spoken word rhyme on 90.3 WRIU)
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Sage Francis - Stuck Featuring Slug
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Sage Francis - Sun Vs Moon
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Sage Francis - The Baby Stays
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Sage Francis - The Best Of Times
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Sage Francis - The Buzz Kill
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Sage Francis - The Emperor's New Clothing
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Sage Francis - The Masters Are Back Nonprophets
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Sage Francis - The Strange Famous Mullet Remover
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Sage Francis - The Time Of My Life
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Sage Francis - The Weak Link
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Sage Francis - The Write A 1995/1996 Class Project
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Sage Francis - Three Sheets To The Wind
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Sage Francis - Threewrite (Non-Prophets)
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Sage Francis - Tree Of Knowledge
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Sage Francis - Trite
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Sage Francis - Underground For Dummies
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Sage Francis - Vital Signs
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Sage Francis - Waterline
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Sage Francis - Whore Monger
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Sage Francis - Worry Not
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Sage Francis - You Cant Give Up On Love
Underground For Dummies
Sage Francis
Spare me the details, e-mails, memos
Dookie-gold chain letter to whom it may concern
Put this around your neck until your hangin on my every word
Stalkin', walkin' in my big black boots
I'm the DLY artist with thick grass roots
Had a couple managers as a youth
I was too young to know better but I was like
"What does a manager do?"
Now one of them he saw dollar signs in my skin color
The other, he said to keep it undercover
Post-VIP Posse, Pre-Internet Nazi era
Powers of suggestion suggested I be what I'm not and that's not me ever
From Lasienega to Meadowbrook Drive
Never looked surprised
Cut to the chase with metal hooks and knives
Now it's battle time, I stepped in the arena
Thirteen year old gladiator freak with a fever for the flavor of a fight on the mic
Follow the leader
Mistachuck was the surrogate father
Krs-One, the teacher
There I was, sneakin into clubs
Beat an emcee to the punch over instrumentals dubbed
From tape deck to tape deck
Pause tape mix at breakneck speed
The only whitey in sight
That doesnt make me realer than you, or faker than you
But I'm authentic, forget it
Started breakin rules
Ten years later still hadnt stopped
Won the biggest battle in a Metallica shirt before the album dropped
A week later, smashed the trophy at a show
It was takin up the space that I needed to grow
Pop pop goes the weasel (the weasel)
Drop drop goes the easel (the easel)
This is hip hop for the people
Stop callin it emo (waah)
I know a kid who thinks he's hip hop cause he buys it
I know a kid who thinks he's hip hop cause he never buys shit
Underground or mainstream
Some are bound to change schemes
Y'all weren't doin this dirt
When Jeru came clean
Before the Freddie Foxxx conflict with DMX
Around the time Jay-Z and Nas's girl had sex
I used to wake up every morning on a hard wooden floor
Livin in Brooklyn with a car I couldnt afford
And if I wasn't hangin out in front of Fat Beats records, I was in the factory, mailing my 12-inches
Nowadays, the DJs don't even spin wax
So fuck a promo copy, buddy, you can download the track
Seratooo promo sexual laptop
A hollow existence in a bottle
Ya' sip sip and swallow
I tripped quick then followed a path that made sense
Started out with a live band then worked with turntablists
Now I strike a match with the back of my front teeth
And light up the stage with just speech
I remember the days Ken and Dave let me crash on their couch
And I saved what I could and put the cash in my mouth
When I played in my hood I had a fraction of outs
Til Atmosphere put me on and now I'm packin the house
Since the mid-80s this has been a game of cat and mouse
It's funny hearin all the shit these rappers brag about
Knowin all of them are walkin around with massive doubts
Talkin bout it's only status and platinum plaques that count
Pop pop goes the weasel (the weasel)
Drop drop goes the easel (the easel)
This is hip hop for the people (the people)
Stop calling it emo (wah)
Irony is dead, it's so motherfucking dead, I was there by it's deathbed
And the last words that it said
Was "Whiiiiite booyyyy"
I'm Still Sick with an independent record labek
I built quick just when I got Sick of Waiting Tables
Then in the blink of an eye I waged War
As a Known Unsoldier with a soul you can't pay for
I ran a business on my own two legs
Known to beg if I needed to with Home Grown bootlegs.
I cut and pasted images of my face and then sloppily placed 'em in a case. Strange Famous. I stayed True when School was in Session.
Went to college to buy time, that shit was expensive.
So I shamelessly self-promoted
The radio station would open doors and opportunities
Eventually made it to Oakland where anticon accepted me with open hands
Journals fot Personal on a one dollar advance.
Non-Prophets had a hope that a UK label smashed, so I crossed out my eyes and signed to Epitaph
This is the hustle of an emcee
The Distrust is Healthy
In a dirty industry where the promises are empty
I'm more honest than friendly
More handsome than sexy
Let me bring you up to speed, Humans do a Dance that's Deadly