Chris Palko

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.
Chris Palko

Chris Palko (* 1974 in Würzburg ), better known under the name Cage or Cage Kennylz , is an American rapper from New York City .

Life

The Würzburg-born rapper Cage lived with his mother and father, who worked for the military police, in a US base in West Germany until he was four. After the father was dishonorably dismissed for using and trading heroin, the family left Germany and moved to New York. Palko and his mother continued to live with his father, who was seriously ill with drugs, until he was arrested and sentenced to prison after threatening the family with a shotgun. At that time, Palko himself consumed drugs such as LSD, mescaline and cannabis and also spent a few months in reformatory institutions for minor offenses. When the youth faced a prison sentence for further violations, his mother was able to convince the judge not to send Palko to prison because of his disturbed childhood. Instead, the distraught youth was placed in a psychiatric clinic. He was held there for about 18 months and treated with various antidepressants due to a misdiagnosis . He was one of a small group of subjects on whom the active ingredient fluoxetine was tested. He was also repeatedly pinned to beds by clinic staff or put in a straitjacket without permission and without detailed preoccupation with his case. Various suicide attempts followed, such as trying to hang yourself with your shoelaces and storing all lithium therapy drugs for over a month in order to consume everything at once.

When Palko was released at the age of 18, his musical career began as an underground rapper in New York City. The stay in the psychiatric clinic as well as the events in his childhood should strongly influence the rapper's initial texts. He changed Palko's stage name "Cage" in some of the songs. This is how he often called himself Alex after Palko had seen the film A Clockwork Orange , and he discovered that the story of the protagonist "Alex" shows numerous parallels with his own fate. At that time, Cage was also working with Necro , who was the producer of the two songs "Agent Orange" and "Radiohead" for Cage.

In 1999 Palko teamed up with some New York underground rappers to form the loose crew The Weathermen . Members of the group include rappers El-P and Aesop Rock . Belonging to this group is a central element in many of Cage's songs and the Weathermen logo adorns several album covers in different variations (including The Conspiracy , Weatherproof and the I Never Knew You EP ).

His debut album Movies for the Blind was released in 2002 on the Eastern Conference Records label of the hip-hop duo The High & Mighty, with whom Cage also formed the group Smut Peddlers. On this album, Cage also worked on the song Holdin a Jar 2 with Definitive Jux -Boss El-P , whose label later signed him. In 2004 his second album Hell's Winter was released there , in whose production El-P played a key role. Also on Definitive Jux, the I Never Knew You EP was released in 2009 , which announced the third studio album Depart from Me , which will be released later that year . Rock musician Sean "F" Martin took over the majority of the production on Depart from Me , which is why the album can be assigned to the subgenre rap rock. In 2013, Palko's fourth album Kill the Architect was released as the first album to be released through this label after the reopening of Eastern Conference Records. As on the debut album, DJ Mighty Mi took over the production.

The actor Shia LaBeouf , who is friends with Cage, has been working for some time on producing a film about the rapper's life as a film and also taking on the lead role.

Discography

Albums

EPs

  • Weatherproof (2003)
  • I Never Knew You (2009)

Demos, Tours and Exclusives

  • For Your Box (2000)
  • The Home Movies (2004)
  • Favorite Bastard Babies (2005)
  • The Hell's Winter Tour DVD (2006)
  • The Best And Worst Of Cage (2008)
  • The Best And Worst Of Cage Vol. 2 (2012)
  • Cage WKCR 92-99 (2012)

Collaborations

personal data
SURNAME Palko, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cage
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American rapper
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg