when i strike up a conversation with you, the fine people of the midwest, would you please stop trying to regale me with their many and varied stories of meeting slug or ant or anyone else associated with atmosphere? not that i'm calling bullshit on those dudes, cause they're all fine and well and high quality mcs. the thing that gets my goat is that there's seemingly a tremendous lack of diversity as far as anything other than rhymesayers is concerned.



now that i've put that out there, here's some good shit from sage francis, a lesser known dude that runs in the same rap coterie as the atmosphere people. i haven't listened to SF in a long time, but recently picked him back up, with my ears having been freshened by the passage of time. dude has been around for a long long time, but the album i got into first was his work with joe beats as non prophets back when lex records was just starting out.

watch me freestyle this bowel movement:

Non Prophets: Damage (Lex, 2003)


also, the cover by ehquestionmark is pretty incredible too, all blasphemous and embossed and shit. i would post a link to pick up the album direct from lex, but no one likes paying import prices. amazon this thing if ya dig it.



just to further drive a point home:



i'm gonna post some of joe beats' really great indie rock blues album later today or tomorrow, so keep your eyes peeled.