cage - stripes

this is a true story about the rappers dad named bill murray. cage had a fucked up life; lived with his father who was a soldier at a base in germany dealing heroin who beat him an his mum, till he got caught dealing and was discharged. then they moved to new york and he kept beating them till he got in an armed standoff with state troopers after he threatened to kill his family with a shotgun. cages life continued to be fucked up till he at 16 he was in court for something and his mum persuaded the judge he was mentally unstable, so he was sent to a psychiatric hospital where he stayed for 18 months after he wass misdiagnosed and pumped full of an experimental drug which sent him into a depression and he tried to kill himself numerous times. during this period, he was also regularly restrained by straight jacket and 10 point bed restraints for periods lasting upto 13 hours..... throughout the 90s he developed a serious drug problem and started a rap career till he sobered up and got more experimental over the last decade (this is quite old)... theyre making a film about his life which should be pretty raw. well grimey, at any rate.

as a rapper hes definatly not one of my favs, but he has his moments. eminem has been accused of imitating his flow after slim shady lp an marshall mathers lp. probly not a direct imitation, but i can definatly tell the resemblance in flow. some complex rhming patterns on this track; 'when little billy feed her ground up jesus powder, woulda beat her louder if it woulda pushed the fetus out her'.