Copper Gone

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Copper Gone
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Studio album by
Sage Francis
ReleasedJune 3, 2014 (2014-06-03)
StudioStrange Famous Manor
Genre Hip hop
Length54:04
Label Strange Famous Records
Producer Cecil Otter, Alxndrbrwn, James Hancock, Poindexter, Reanimator, Le Parasite, Buck 65, Prolyphic, Anders Parker, Alias, Dub Sonata, John Ash, Kurtis SP
Sage Francis chronology
Li(f)e
(2010)		Copper Gone
(2014)

Copper Gone is the fifth solo studio album by American rapper Sage Francis. [1] It was released on Strange Famous Records on June 3, 2014. [2] It is the first official studio album after Sage Francis announced his hiatus, which lasted for four years. [3] It peaked at number 180 on the Billboard 200 chart. [4]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 64/100 [5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Exclaim! 9/10 [7]
HipHopDX 3.5/5 [8]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
RapReviews.com8.5/10 [10]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 64, based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [5]

Bram E. Gieben of The Skinny gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying, "On the evidence of Copper Gone, Francis is back on top form, spitting the kind of melancholic, philosophical couplets which made him the go-to emcee for literate lyrics laced with dense, allusive layers of meaning." [11]

Track listing

No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Pressure Cooker" Cecil Otter 4:02
2."Grace"Alxndrbrwn3:28
3."ID Thieves"James Hancock, Poindexter3:16
4."Cheat Code" Reanimator 4:05
5."Dead Man's Float"Cecil Otter4:08
6."Over Under"Le Parasite2:48
7."Make Em Purr" Buck 65 3:39
8."Vonnegut Busy" Prolyphic 4:50
9."Thank You"Anders Parker3:52
10."The Set Up" Alias 4:05
11."The Place She Feared Most"Reanimator3:10
12."Once Upon a Blood Moon"Dub Sonata4:23
13."Say Uncle"John Ash4:14
14."Maint Reqd"Kurtis SP4:03

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [12] 180
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [13] 24
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [14] 32

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  13. ↑ "Sage Francis Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  14. ↑ "Sage Francis Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
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