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CRACK PIPES - Sage Francis

Posting this up to coincide with my retrospective review of this Rhymesayers classic album. Peep the review, analytical breakdown, insight, and some album lyrics here: 

16 Anything Is Everything

Acapella - Aesop Rock ft Rob Sonic - Dark Heart News
Instrumental - The Left - Statistics

mixed by me El Dee

Dark Heart Statistics - Aesop Rock ft Rob Sonic [El Dee Mix]

tragedy is the darkness that makes the stars brighter...50,000,000+

10 Gray Scale

from the 2011 album 'afraid to dream'

Purchase here:
http://micheallarsen.bandcamp.com/merch/eyenine-afraid-to-dream-cd

Cataract Vision (Ft. Eyedea)

This song was written and recorded in 2001 for the Sage Francis "Sick of Waging War" mix CD. It features Eyedea and Slug on vocals. Not only was this beat produced by Eyedea, but it was also recorded and mixed in his home studio. We lost Micheal "Eyedea" Larsen in October 2010. Here is Sage's write-up about how we lost a beautiful man, musician and artist much too soon: http://tinyurl.com/TheManBehindTheEyedea

"Sick of Waging War" is available on CD and MP3 at http://biturl.net/wagingwar

"EMBARRASSED" Sage Francis feat. Eyedea + Slug

ZERO DEMO is from the SICK TO D(EAT)H mixtape: http://tinyurl.com/SickToDeathSFR
This a previously unheard version of "I Was Zero" off of Sage Francis' LI(F)E album (www.tinyurl.com/SageLife.) As you'll notice, it ended up being completely re-arranged and reworked by the time it was released in 2010. On this version you will hear the original beat that Buck 65 produced for it as well as an additional Sage Francis verse that was stricken from the album version. The artwork for this single was done by Falside, photo by Anthony St. James. 
Facebook: http://Facebook.com/SageFrancis
Twitter: http://twitter.com/SageFrancis
Label: http://StrangeFamousRecords.com

LYRICS:
If it wasn't for the bass, I wouldn't need these hearing aids. 
If it wasn't for mistakes, I probably wouldn't be here today.  
10 years ago I was 22. 20 years ago I was 12. 30 years ago I was 2. 
When I came out my momma I was zero.
 In the before life...I was undead. 
I was home schooled. There were no rules.
 But I gave it all up just for the chance to go public. 
A celestial scarecrow dancing with the puppets.
 A tug in my gut. I'm carrying the world in my stomach. 
I'm a surrogate motherfucker, the girls love it. 
Birth the suffix. Cut the visible string.
 Control is much more than a physical thing. 
Got an analog God and digital king,
An Adonis type bod with such brittle little wings.
I'm not an angel by any stretch of your halo,
But I've done the Lord's work and I'm not even on his payroll.
I stay low and do my dirt on a sea level.
Shoo away the crow while you flirt with the she-devil.
Grow up. You're old enough to know that dreams falter. 
I propose you leave that ego at the alter. 
The pauper and the prince switch roles,
Exchanging tattered clothes and silk robes.
The man behind the curtain at the end of the yellow brick road,
Shows envy for Geppetto and his one inch nose.

If it wasn't for the bass, I wouldn't need these hearing aids. 
If it wasn't for mistakes, I probably wouldn't be here today. 
When I came out my momma I was zero.
I was zero when I came out my momma, now everybody knows…

 I was born into it and before I knew it,
 I saw the students of poor getting hauled off to war. 
It's the law of Judas in the land of king's tax. 
 Partake in the Eucharist and then demand your kick backs.  
Spiritual wrist slap, please pass the sacrament ,
Ask if big, bad, black Jesus was African.  
They're selling a click track but they call it a soul clap.  
It's all in how you package it. The power of a magic trick.  
 Immaculate concepts are lost in the land of the cross. 
I'm standing off with a man of the cloth. 
He knows the ins and outs. All I want is the outs. 
He's selling real estate for some place in the clouds, but...
 I'm not investing in intellectual property,
 I'm inventing gender bending technology.  
'Cause maybe everybody needs to just become a sexual oddity, 
Leaving birth to the test tubes and death to the lottery. 
There's no one stopping me, I've got to be self-regulating.  
Wealth is escalating but my poverty was entertaining.  
Now I'm debating the value of a caste system,   
Cash back rewards and wars funded by my taxed income.
 If I'm a part of the problem then pardon me, 
 There's always been a difference between what I am and what I wanna be.
 It's either Jihadist freak or Jesus scenester. 
I heard God is coming...and she's a screamer. 
I couldn't understand what she was telling me, 
Why everybody thinks that they're their own worst enemy. 
I followed the manual. I swallowed the skeleton key...
And it unlocked the hell in me.  
So this is my gift to God.  Ribbon on my dick, like a tourniquet. Syphilis. 
This is my gift to God.  I'm jumping out the cake. Naked with a shank. 
This is my gift to God.  Unwrap the package. Confetti made of maggots. 
This...is my gift. "Ugh, you call that talent? "
Here's your image back. You can have it.  

10 years ago I was 22.  20 years ago I was 12. 
30 years ago I was 2.  When I came out my momma I was zero.

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SICK TO DEATH mixtape

ZERO DEMO - Sage Francis (prod. Buck 65)

lyrics by Ceschi / Baracuda / NGAFSH (of CVE)
produced by Child Actor / chorus ad-libs by Natalie Plaza & Max Heath of Child Actor
Baracuda & Ceschi vocals recorded by Richard Catesh in London, Ontario, Canada
mastered by Deeskee 
from the album "Forgotten Forever"

While on tour in Ontario, Canada in January 2013 I was lucky enough to have time to record a song with Baracuda originally of Guelph Ontario's "Plague Language" family of artists.  Cuda & I originally recorded our verses in London Ontario at Richard Catesh's apartment over a beat that was grabbed online which featured a (pretty heartfelt) Reggae singer doing the chorus.  I had been trying hard to get one of my rap idols NGAFSH of CVE (Goodlife/Project Blowed) on this album and after recording this song and reading some of FSH's online rants about hard work - I KNEW he would feel this one.  The only problem we had was that the beat had already been used by countless others online who had already made youtube music videos etc. Like a champion, my long time friend & bandmate Max Heath of Child Actor completely re-made the beat, I recorded a new chorus, Natalie sang some ad-libs and the Work Song was created!


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