The hip-hop underground had gone cold and codified more than a decade ago, waddling in predictability just like the Puff Daddy pop-rap it allegedly opposed. And then the frame broke again: The chip-on ...

Underground is for Dummies, which completely changes the meaning. I don t think underground is for dummies. AllHipHop.com: If there is one thing you want listeners to take away from your album, what ...

At a time when rappers tend to be misogynistic, hedonistic, materialistic and stupid, Sage Francis is, in his own words, "different, in a different way." The 27-year-old battle rapper/slam poet/emcee ...

There’s no denying Sage Francis’s passion — for hip-hop, for speaking truth, for expression itself. Nothing changes with Human the Death Dance, but where 2005’s A Healthy Distrust dealt chiefly with ...

When splenetic backpack-rapper and slam poet Sage Francis recruited Will Oldham to appear on his 2005 song "Sea Lion", it was borderline shocking. Even though they tended to play the same venues, ...

Instead of spending time with loved ones last Christmas, rapper Sage Francis was bedridden with pneumonia. Isolated from friends and family for an entire month, Francis’ eyes scanned the walls of his ...

Within the spectrum of underground rap heroes few represent lovelier than the one they call Sage Francis. In true iconoclastic fashion, Francis has carved out a respected name for himself as one of ...

Sage Francis is from the Sean Daley school of underground hip-hop, full of tempered anger and frontier spirit. Kicking off with “Buzz Kill,” the first track on A Healthy Distrust, Francis exhibits ...

In keeping with Anticon traditions, Sage Francis treads the path rarely followed by his hip-hop counterparts. His is the road of introspection, harsh self-examination and soul-bearing lyrics revealing ...

“I’m the motherfuckin’ Bill O’Reilly of this hip-hop shit,” Sage Francis claims on A Healthy Distrust, his first release from punk staple Epitaph Records. He may not be too far off the mark. With a ...

Alternative hip-hop has developed into a de facto criticism of the form that spawned it, with artists like Sage Francis delivering the sort of complex, politically charged imagery that’s strikingly ...

Within the context of the popular rap consensus , Sage Francis would probably register as something of an anomaly. A disheveled looking white chap with a beat poet's vernacular, he's probably the ...