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Champaign-Urbana, IL - Musician, producer, composer, audio designer, and DJ Larry E. Gates II  has played hundreds of stages across the nation and has shared those stages with the likes of Chuck Berry, G. Love & Special Sauce, 30 Seconds To Mars, Local H, Superdrag, Trombone Shorty, Brother Ali, The Nappy Roots, Blueprint, DJ Rare Groove, Illogic, and many others.

 

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Entries in Sage Francis (4)

Way Gone Wednesdays: Sea Lion

"Sea Lion" is one of my favorite Sage Francis songs and according to him, it's his most covered tune. But check out this haunting ukulele version by Picnic at Gunnars and if you don't know it, check out the original here.

 

Real Talk Tuesdays: Film the Police

B. Dolan (Strange Famous Records) jacked an old N.W.A. beat and made a very relevent tune with the help of Toki Wright, Jasiri X and Sage Francis (directed by Buddy Peace).  Real talk?  I'm gonna film every police encounter from here on out.

 

Real Talk Tuesdays: Quadir Lateef

Real poets are awfully hard to find.  Thank goodness there's Saul Williams, Sage Francis and this cat - Quadir Lateef.  Dag.

 

Real Talk Tuesdays: Sage Francis

Sage Francis is an artist, a poet and an emcee.  Here he is on some local Rhode Island news show giving the squares some Real Talk.

 

Before I knew it
I saw the students of poor 
gettin' hauled off to war