After serving up an incredible debut, Movies For The Blind, concocting a slick conceptual rendition of the Billy Dee Williams and Sly Stallone cop thriller with partner Camu Tao, (The Nighthawks), and spearheading the incredible Weathermen Conspiracy mix CD, the bastard child of Stanley Kubrick, Cage, somehow finds time to give his fans more with the EP Weatherproof.

With Weatherproof serving as yet another an appetizer for the Weathermen’s highly anticipated full-length debut, The New Left, Cage delivers more of his distorted lyricism and over the top sense of humor with this nine track EP. While Cage’s wild personality and topic matter is not for everyone, Cage always manages to pick ridiculously dope beats. Cage lets his twisted verbals loose on, over DJ Mighty Mi’s haunting chords on “Summer In Hell” and build with fellow smoke fiend Tame One on the Reef produced “Leak Bros”, a union which gives us yet another taste of things to come, as Tame and Cage give us a preview of their upcoming side-project of the same name. Tame comes off with lines like “I dip my cigarettes in the most wicked of liquids/that have me blacking out like six solar eclipses.”  Cage doesn’t let his beef with the Demigodz simmer either, as he includes the Sebb produced “Haterama”. And if u missed the ever evolving production of Camu on “Come to Daddy” from the Conspiracy Mixtape, don’t fret its here too.

While the true gem of the EP is the starry eyed production of RJD2 on “Weather People,” the EP isn’t without its missteps, as the J-Zone take on “Too Much (Remix)” doesn’t improve upon the original, and we’ve heard better from Zone in the past.  In addition, “Underground Rap Star” plods along as well.

Although some cannot digest Cage’s lyricism, and at times his topic matter is so over the top that you have no idea whether its his on-wax persona doing the talking, or if he is really this twisted?  Whatever the case may be, Weatherproof serves as an  appetizer for what promises to be a huge year for Cage in 2004 and truly affirms that “Def Jam fucked around and signed the wrong white boy.”