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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I know I am not alone., 12 April 2005
Rock & Roll is dead, eh? Yeah, maybe so, but at one point it was a radical, generation defining force. It represented all the important elements of social awareness, free love, government questioning, and everything else at the forefront of globally important personal and social change. Things are different now. Many styles of music have come, gone, and evolved to the point where what sells completely dominates the airwaves and plagues all corners of our collective unconscious. This is where the disk jockey becomes an on-air personality and whose job consists of selecting songs of a label arranged playlist and musical freedom comes with a price tag. Here is where Beyonce, Missy Elliott, Nelly, and countless other super produced voices with nothing to say get fantastically expensive production, sound great, and change nothing while people of effort, integrity, and awareness, whose ideas often contrast the status quo's, remain in the borders to be sought out instead of universally expected, heard, and acted upon.
But perhaps this balance of the world is the only way it can be. The way of the world, the one that Non-Prophets MC Sage Francis so honestly describes and viciously criticizes quite justifiably, is the same one that motivates him to do anything in the first place. Hope sounds as fresh as Gangstarr, De La Soul, and Rum DMC did back in the day but brings the fierceness of Rage Against The Machine to this struggling genre of hip-hop. It's a great match between heavily sarcastic, penetrating, and invasive yet highly lyrical and well-spoken words and Blow Your Headphones [Herbaliser] style production.
Still, while I like to keep abreast of how pathetic and miserable everything is, which is the main cognitive reason I listen to Bill Hicks, Jello Biafra, Noam Chomsky, and others of that nature, I feel a bit sadistic for taking so much pleasure in it, especially in Sage Francis' case. Perhaps I find comfort in knowing that I'm not the only one who sees the magnitude of how vile things are as well as the brief flashes of beauty in life and art that somehow make it all worthwhile. I know I am not alone.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Supreme Stuff, 28 Jun 2004
This is a great album. Having bought Sage Francis - Personal Journals and Joe Beats - Reverse Discourse I had to buy this gem. It didn't dissapoint. Sage Francis is the finest white rapper i've ever heard and the beats are first class. Deep, meaningful and funny. What more can you ask for from a hiphop album? With albums like this being made you can sleep eazy at night knowing that hiphops as good now as it ever has been. Buy Personal Journals first and then buy this, you won't regret it.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I'm in outerspace with a microphone!!! Aaaaahhh!!!!, 17 Jun 2004
Sage Francis and Joe Beats both hail from Rhode Island and have been blowing up on the underground scene for years but this is the first studio album for their Non-Prophets collaboration. It's an awesome album with Sage flipping the script to Joe Beats magnificent production.
I found this album easily accessible and on the first few listen could almost forget I was listening to Sage when I was caught up in the hooks and choruses that were coming from all angles. But after another few listens when I was familiar with the tracks I could really get into Sage's rhymes.
If your new to Sage Francis then know this : He is one of the best mc's there has ever been and his lyrics are intelligent, imaginative, humourous and on point.
Buy this album it's classic! If you like this pick up Personal Journals or any of the Sick of waiting...series also by Sage Francis.
Respect to Sage Francis, Joe Beats and the whole Anticon crew.
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