photocred: PRENTICE DANNER --- Let me make this quick by giving you three reasons why Sage Francis is one of the best contemporary hip-hop/rap artists walking this earth:

In 2010, I was on a backpacking trip around the world, crossing from Asia into America, and San Francisco was my stopover en route to Costa Rica. I had planned to stay with an old high school friend in SF Castro but by the time I arrived she happened to have just fallen madly for a guy, so I had to be outsourced for the sake of love.

Images courtesy of Philipp Vogt and Shelley Pellegrin.

Photocred: Anna Mascarenhas via thump Brazil