Eastern Conference/Def Jux labelmates
Cage and
Camu Tao team up for this incisively outlandish concept album that uses the relatively obscure 1981
Sylvester Stallone/
Billy Dee Williams' film Nighthawks as its' driving premise.
Cage and
Tao twist the plot lines of the film to create a darkly humorous album that exposes New York as a city bent on corruption, fundamentally at the law enforcement level. While the notion of NYC as the ultimate in American capitalism to its gaudy and morally deleterious extreme is not novel, the two underground MCs pull it off with equal doses of crime-core and tongue-in-cheek social satire.