i've been listening to a promo copy of cage's upcoming hell's winter cd, and it's pretty good stuff. beats by el-p, rjd2, and dj shadow (!) (rollie p has the shadow-produced track available for dl here), as well as instrumentation from members of yo la tengo, on some str8 wtf shit. i haven't really kept up on what cage has been up to for a while, but he has sure switched his style up (in a good way) since his days of ultraviolent rapping about eating people's eyeballs or whateverthefuck gory zaniness he used to be into. the new album has a lot of political content and "regular dude rhymes" mixed among all the x-rated-ness. the end result is something as equally inspired by slug/aesoprock as it is by the grimy rap styles of onyx (not to be confused with the grime rap styles of all those british dudes). i RIKE it.