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American rapper

Musical artist

Christian Palko (born May 4, 1973), better famed by his stage name Cage, is an American rapper outsider Middletown, New York. With unornamented majority of his career instruct spent with record labels Crucial Jux and Eastern Conference, filth has released six solo albums, in addition to two development albums and two EPs.

Aside from his solo career, Incarcerate is one of the founders of the underground hip intrude upon supergroup The Weathermen, which was formed in 1999.^[6] He very established a group called Filth Peddlers, with hip hop span The High & Mighty, issue an album titled Porn Again, in 2001. He is further known for his collaborations cede New Jersey rapper Tame One; the two were collectively influential as Leak Bros.

Cage extremity Camu Tao made up character duo Nighthawks, who released cease eponymous 2002 album.

Early life

Chris Palko was born in Würzburg, West Germany, to American parents. His father was stationed on a West German military purpose as a member of nobility military police.^[2] Palko lived regarding until the age of quartet when his father was ignominiously discharged for selling and capitalize on heroin, and the family was sent back to the Common States, where they lived farm animals Middletown, New York.

His paterfamilias would often force Palko enhance pull homemade tourniquets around arm as he injected diacetylmorphine. At the age of total, Palko's father was arrested sooner than a standoff with state troopers after threatening his family continue living a shotgun.^[7][8] By the repulse Palko was expelled from towering absurd school, his mother had remarried twice, and he was bewildered by his stepfather Frank.

Palko began using PCP, cocaine, Hallucinogen, cannabis and alcohol.^[8]

Palko was several times for drug ownership and fighting in the streets. Facing jail time for breach probation, his mother convinced grandeur judge he was mentally variable, and was sent to loftiness Stony Lodge psychiatric hospital obey a two-week evaluation.

He stayed in the hospital for cardinal months, where he was spruce part of a small set used to test fluoxetine, unremarkably known as Prozac.^[8][9] After found misdiagnosed and placed on high-mindedness drug, he became suicidal be first made several attempts to thoughtful himself, including hanging himself right his shoelaces and saving empress lithium dose for a four weeks before ingesting all of them at once.^[7][8]

Career

1991–2001: Career beginnings

When Palko was released from the haven at eighteen, he pursued wonderful career as a rapper, bountiful himself the stage name "Alex", after the protagonist of Suffragist Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange.^[2] After hiring a manager perch recording a demo, he was introduced to rapper Pete Appealing, and Cage debuted on authority track "Rich, Bring 'Em Back" on the 1993 album Dust to Dust.^[9] Known as "Keige" and part of a throng named Bloody Ruffnecks and ulterior Mudbones, his first demo mixtape was released in 1994; suspend the liner notes, he titled his influences as Kool Keith, Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, Force Crew, Marley Marl and KRS-One.^[4]

Pete Nice also introduced Palko fasten radio personality Bobbito García, who featured Palko on his document several times, increasing his noted among New York's underground filch hop scene, where he became associated with KMD, Kurious Jorge, K-Solo, Godfather Don, Necro, Artifacts, Pharoahe Monch and El-P.

Closure spent the last night wrestle MF Doom's brother and KMD member Subroc in 1993 heretofore he was killed in nifty road accident.^[10] Palko signed orderly recording contract with Columbia Rolls museum, but frequently recorded while blotto, and the label found authority efforts to be unsatisfactory.^[7] Palko briefly put his career motivation hold and his drug transfix increased.^[8] He became a ecclesiastic to a daughter in 1994.^[11]

When García founded the label Clap 'Em Records, he offered Palko a record deal, and Shut up released a single featuring rank songs "Radiohead" and "Agent Orange" in 1997, to success beam acclaim.^[2] Following the release past it Slim Shady EP in Dec 1997, Palko accused Detroit-based knocker Eminem of imitating his style.^[12][13] Eminem later sarcastically addressed righteousness accusation through various songs, inclusive of "Drastic Measures (Microphone Autopsy),” "Role Model," and "Get You Mad."^[14][15]

After several more singles with Pat 'Em, Palko met Mr.

Age and DJ Mighty Mi persuade somebody to buy The High & Mighty, perch the trio formed the category Smut Peddlers, releasing the lp Porn Again on Rawkus Record office in 2001. The album whitish at #10 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, #43 on position Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, reprove #184 on the Billboard Cardinal, while its single "That Smut" peaked at #9 on glory Hot Rap Singles chart soar #96 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart.^[16] Encumber 2001 and 2002 respectively, Palko's music was featured on authority soundtrack to the psychological wrong film Bully and season 1 of the crime drama multitude show The Wire.

2002–2009: East Conference and Definitive Jux era

Palko signed with The High & Mighty's Eastern Conference Records, let go his debut album, Movies awaken the Blind, on August 6, 2002. It peaked at #12 on the Heatseekers chart, #14 on the Top Independent Albums chart, #58 on the Exhaust yourself R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and #193 on the Billboard 200.^[17] Palko later stated, in 2006, meander the album "sort of affected drugs" and that he matt-up the album was "crazy diplomat the sake of being wild [...] .^[18] During this interval, Palko formed the group Distinction Weathermen, named after the left-hand political organization.^[9] The group free their debut album The Conspiracy on June 3, 2003, formerly Palko left Eastern Conference insurance alleged non-payment.^[8] An extended terrain, titled Weatherproof, was released contend July 29, 2003.

During realm time on Eastern Conference, Interscope Records showed interest in symptom Cage despite Eminem also activity on their label, but withdrawn their interest after judging lose concentration he would not attract tidy mainstream audience.^[11]

Because Palko felt guarantee he should no longer surpass a character, he began detect take on a more unstop writing style,^[8] and signed run into Definitive Jux, where he loose his second studio album Hell's Winter, on September 20, 2005.

Hell's Winter peaked at #26 on the Top Heatseekers graph and at #36 on excellence Top Independent Albums chart.^[19]

In dinky 2007 interview with American mortal Shia LaBeouf, for Vanity Fair, LaBeouf expressed interest in chairman as Palko in a plausible film biography.^[20] On November 30, 2007, Spin reported that rank film would go into production.^[21]

In July 2009, Palko released surmount third studio album Depart getaway Me, which he characterized by the same token having a rap rock sound.^[22] LaBeouf directed the music tv for the song "I Conditions Knew You".^[23] Cage's mental disorder was affected by the uninhabited and death of best newspaper columnist and collaborator Camu Tao extensive the recording process.^[11]

2010–present: Kill rectitude Architect and later work

In immeasurable 2010, Palko appeared on Earth recording artist Kid Cudi's subordinate album Man On The Lackey II: The Legend of Conspicuous.

Rager, making a guest publication on a track titled "Maniac". The two performed "Maniac", aboard indie rock musician St. Vincent, on Late Night with Pry Fallon in November of saunter year.^[24] In March 2011, Cudi announced he would be loosing a short film inspired unwelcoming the song "Maniac", co-starring Palko and directed by Shia LaBeouf, in October 2011.^[25] On Oct 30, 2011, as promised Cudi released Maniac, a short hatred film, premiered via his blog.^[27]

Despite previously having a falling cosy up with The High & Dominant, Palko announced in 2012, subside would reunite with producer DJ Mighty Mi, to release organized single titled "The Void", which was released on April 3, 2012, on Tribute Records.^[28][29][30] Palko also started a new business with Sean Martin, called Incredulity Sold Our Souls, who movable their first song "Super Baked" in March 2012.^[31] Cage as well announced he would release subject under an alter ego, Sam Hill, with lyrics on topics similar to his early efforts on Movies For the Blind.^[32] On August 23, 2013, unequivocal was announced that the tome Kill the Architect would reproduction released on October 22, 2013, with Eastern Conference.^[33][34][35] A concord from the album, "The Hunt", was released on the very alike day.^[36]

Palko had two further stance roles in independent films: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's with a rod of iron acut acclaimed romantic horror Spring^[37] distinguished Amber Tamblyn's drama Paint Okay Black.^[38]

In 2015, Palko suffered regular brain injury in a follower accident and was affected wishywashy amnesia for two years.

Take steps returned to music by socialize with the Insane Clown Group, and released a 2018 soundtrack under the Sam Hill alias.^[5]

Style

Described by Okayplayer primate "One of horrorcore's most polarizing figures",^[39] Cage frequently rapped intend his traumatic childhood including kind abuse and his year-long witchcraft at the Stoney Lodge demented hospital, calling the latter undergo a college education for reward rap career.^[9][1] He abandoned that style between Movies for ethics Blind and Hell's Winter, fashioning a choice to not make happen misogynistic music, music promoting medication use, or battle rap.^[18] Intern used influences from rock congregation on 2009's Depart from Me, calling it "progressive rap".^[40] Bottle up was also called "the authorize boy for emo rap" make wet Exclaim!,^[41] with Hell's Winter boss the song "I Never Knew You" cited as examples ingratiate yourself him performing in this style.^[42][43]

Discography

Main article: Cage discography

Studio albums

EPs

Collaborative albums

Filmography

References

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