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The Anticon collective nursed the talent of frenzied rapper
Paul "Sage" Francis,
the best lyricist of his generation,
whose Personal Journals (2002), marked by a "straight-edge" philosophy
of life and produced by the Anticon squad (Alias, Sixtoo, Jel, Odd Nosdam, etc),
and
A Healthy Distrust (2005), an angrier vocal assault that evoked
vintage Public Enemy,
became the classics of "emo hip-hop",
his interference of political and personal discourses enhanced by a new generation of beatmakers and producers.
Hope (2003), credited to the Non-Prophets (a duo with Joe Beats),
indulges in more traditional hip-hop.
Road Tested (2006) is a live album.
Still Sickly Business (2006) collects and reprocesses material that
was originally released on limited-edition albums (the "Sick" series, from 2000
till 2004).
The highlights of
Human The Death Dance (Epitaph, 2007) are the production of
Odd Nosdam and Alias (notably the noir atmosphere of Going Back to Rehab),
and the (too) brief compositions by Mark Isham
(Good Fashion and Waterline).
Francis' lyrics abandon the political overtones of
A Healthy Distrust (2005) and return to the domestic sphere while
several songs seem to distance themselves from hip-hop.
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