Copper Gone

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

Critical reception
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".

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."

Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.


 * Sage Francis – vocals
 * Cecil Otter – production (1, 5)
 * Alxndrbrwn – production (2)
 * James Hancock – production (3)
 * Poindexter – production (3)
 * Reanimator – production (4, 11)
 * Le Parasite – production (6)
 * Buck 65 – production (7)
 * Prolyphic – production (8)
 * Anders Parker – production (9)
 * Alias – production (10), mixing
 * Dub Sonata – production (12)
 * John Ash – production (13)
 * Kurtis SP – production (14)
 * Dilly Dilly – vocals
 * Athena Hiotis – piano
 * Joshua Trinidad – horns
 * Daddy Kev – mastering
 * Jelena Bojanic – artwork
 * Irena Mihalinec – graphic design
 * Sarah "Inkymole" Coleman – illustration
 * Prentice Danner – photography
 * Davor Drokan – photography