1. Best of Times – I think it’s one of the top five songs to come out of the underground movement, period. Nothing out there that sounds anything like it.

2. Crack Pipes – first time I met Sage in person I DJ’d for him at the Knitting Factory in Tribeca. Personal Journals had just come out. I pressed play on the first record of the set, and Crack Pipes started. I hadnt heard it yet. One of my favorite life memories.

3. Damage – Getting the chance to be on stage for this song and be a part of it in any sense has been fucking unreal. Basically every line is a quotable and it’s one of the all-time great hooks.

4. Vonnegut Busy – Beat from Prolyphic is insane, and Sage wrote the shit out of this. During the most difficult year of my life I’ve regularly been rapping different sections of this song to myself without even knowing it.

5. Lie Detector Test – Somehow this has always been the most personal Sage song to me. In the sense that it’s so casual and unguarded? Not sure if I’m wording that right. I dunno. I’ve always loved it.

CAS ONE

1.Andy Kaufman- probably an unconventional favorite sage song but this was the one that really got me into him. Both sage and Andy Kaufman. This song made me look up who Andy Kaufman was so that I understood the reference of the song and I fell in love with the character of Andy as a product of that.

2. Inherited scars- this is the first rap song I heard where I thought….RAP CAN TALK ABOUT THIS!?

3. The cure- you know what I think the stand out lines are in this song?when a boy writes off the world it’s done in sloppy misspelled words when a girl writes off the world it’s done in cursive. sometimes things that are true as still are still brilliant in their observation.

4.make em purr- sage made the indie world care about his fucking cat.

5.the emperors new clothing- this song reminds me of the early 2000’s because I had it on constant repeat and it makes me feel so nostalgic.



SCROOBIUS PIP

1. Rewrite – this was on the first Sage album I owned and I learnt every god damn word. One of my all time favourite songs by anyone ever

2. Bridal – this track made me want to do a whole album of one verse songs. It’s fucking perfect man. No filler. It slowly builds, breaks out and then it’s gone.

3. Make em Purr – I was lucky enough to hear this super early and it made me so damn proud and excited to be putting out Copper Gone

4. Embarrassed – this was the first time I heard Eyedea. I was already a Sage fan and already a Slug fan so THEY were the appeal here…the Eyedea popped up and blew my mind with his while “…conscience consciously edited…” long tongue twister line.

5. Let me Come – BECAUSE ITS MY SONG ON MY ALBUM AND ITS AWESOME AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I WIN.

DOPE KNIFE

Climb trees, whoremonger, makeshift patriot, mutiny, and…. I gotta say London bridge





DUNCAN JEWETT

Non-Prophets – Any Port into Damage – I was never big on “traditional” rap when I was growing up- braggadocio or even clever pun stuff. The entire ‘Hope’ record had such a fun and yet dope/braggy/smart-as-fuck vibe to it that I never liked before then and still don’t like much of and the wit woven throughout the record went super hard for nerdy 15/16yrold me especially considering I was obsessed with Personal Journals as like a 14yrold, before this came out. Not to mention some of the truly most classic production like EVER- fucking ‘Fresh’?! Bridle – Loved the sing-sing cadence of this track from the moment I heard it, struck me long before the lyrics did. Testimony – HO SHIT honestly this beat gives me goosebumps every single time. Sage starts this track with the best verse I’ve heard on a “posse” style cut with a few exceptions, and I’m not sure I even understand the verse! Intro/Outro hook so goddamn catchy. Clickety Clack – This is sort of a quintessential Sage Francis sound for me personally, I remember the first listen through this record when this track hit I knew I probably couldn’t like another song on this record more than Clickety Clack. Amazing dark/brooding beat and the rhyme scheme throughout is great with such dope lyrics accompanying and keeping up the scheme from beginning to end I always struck me. Personal Journals? I know this doesn’t help for this 40 track playlist but Personal Journals was simply groundbreaking for me from beginning to end as a young teenager. I’m extraordinarily picky about what I like in music, if I didn’t like songs I would skip them every time or just delete them from the playlist and I think Personal Journals was one of those records had such truly eye-opening songs that I would go back to those sort of tracks that were initially abrasive or “boring” to me at first, so I could make sure not to miss anything. The production can’t be touched.

PROLYPHIC I Keep Calling – This song is a personal favorite of mine. Crack Pipes – First rap song that ever made me cry. This song is so intense. First time I saw him perform it live in RI the shit floored me. Dead Mans Float – This song is so well written. Sage is one of my favorite emcees of all time. Fuck all y’all. Life Is What Distracts You from Death – Love this fucking verse, but hate the fucking Patriots. Disasters – Sage kills this. It’s funny, it’s got character. “I’m sitting on top of a Barbarian chair with Rastafarian hair” Clokworx – Mental Flux – Respect the Sage beat making skills! SEEZ MICS The song where he fakes his own death to see who comes to his funeral, Mermaids Are Sea Sluts, and Different.

01 Crumble 02 Underground For Dummies 03 Love The Lie 04 Blue 05 Waterline Also you have other good songs. But nobody else voted for these.