Kelro

Bella Shmurda

Shoday

Sage Francis

Imagine (Explicit)

F1 The Album

Eyedea

Sundown (Explicit)

Resonance (Explicit)

The Cloaks

Awol One

Gel Roc

Death Swan (Remix) (Explicit)

Epic Beard Men

B. Dolan

Man Overboard (Jnokes Remix) (Explicit)

This Was Supposed to Be Fun

Copper Gone

Blue - Single

Personal Journals

Ubuntu (Water into Wine)

Li(f)e (Explicit)

Conspiracy To Riot

Human The Death Dance (Explicit)

Road Tested: Live 2003-2005

A Healthy Distrust (Explicit)

Still Sickly Business

Sick of Waging War

Sick of Waiting Tables

by  Stanton SwihartSage Francis is something of an enigma wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside a slam poet wrapped inside a rap MC. In other words, it's difficult to say in which way, exactly, Personal Journals should be classified, but considering how qualitative are its returns, it hardly matters. Already a battle champion (he won both the 1999 Superbowl Battle and 2000 Scribble Jam competitions) and a nationally ranked slam-poetry contestant, the self-defined "self-referentialist" Francis finally dropped this debut full-length with the support of his spiritual compadres and fellow rap revolutionaries in Anticon, and like the music from that collective, Personal Journals vigorously pushes back battlements and erases musical dividing lines. At any moment, you may find yourself unexpectedly confronted by gritty street hip-hop ("Climb Trees," "Pitchers of Silence"), gonzo reportage ("Personal Journalist"), what probably comes closest to spoken-word ("Inherited Scars," the live reading "Hopeless," "Runaways"), emotionally intense autobiography ("Different"), even cockeyed rock music ("My Name Is Strange," with six-piece backing band AOI), and then a more free-form and indefinable performance art (the superb "Broken Wings," halfway between rap and a touching sort of metaphysics, or the gothic, multiple-personality "Eviction Notice"), for lack of a better term. The soundscapes that his team of producers came up with are every bit as unorthodox and superlative. That the album could appeal to rap heads and arty, alternative types alike is a testament to the high caliber of Francis' personal journalism.

Executive producer: Sage Francis
All songs: Sage Francis Publishing (ASCAP)
Sage Francis toured with Gruvis Malt in 2003 on The Live Band Dead Poet Tour, and many of those tracks were recorded off of the sound board, a method which often neglects bass and percussion in order to add some low end to the recordings. Additional layers of bass were added on tracks 9, 11, and 13.

The Gimme Fund was put together by Sage Francis for the F**k Clear Channel Tour 04. They are mis-credited as The Gumme Fund at places in the liner notes.

The Sol.Illaquists Of Sound recorded with Sage Francis in 2005. Track 21 is a mishmash of live audio from various shows and studio fill-ins.

2: Recorded at the Call in Providence, RI.
7: Live in Fort Collins.
14: From Rock the Bells
17: Live in Sioux Falls

Packaged in a cardstock gatefold sleeve

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