Talk:Cage (rapper)

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Shouldn't this be moved to Cage (hip hop artist)? The long form of the pseudonym isn't the name he performs under [1] or is known by generally, and I venture that many would not recognize it as him on a disambiguation page. 86.42.83.73 (talk) 13:01, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why do some rappers get article names like Ice Cube (Hip Hop Artist) rather than Ice Cube (rapper)? Personally I favor the latter... //Knarris

Well, Cage both makes music and raps, for example. He's principally known for rapping, so (rapper) is not too bad, but a scenario whereby RZA defaults to RZA (rapper) (as it actually did for a period), while again technically correct, is embarrassingly wrong-headed, seeing as he is one of the five or ten most lauded track makers in hip hop history. 86.44.26.192 (talk) 03:00, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Collaborations?

Why is the discography section listed as only for solo LPs? Many other artists have collaborations and EPs in their discographies.

Intrinsical (talk) 04:34, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I don't understand this. -Verdatum (talk) 18:56, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See guidelines. Discography sections should provide a basic summary of the musician's work. If you want to list other albums such as EPs or collaborations, create a Discography page. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 19:45, 24 November 2008 (UTC))[reply]

All this link says that I can see is, "Musicians that have released a significant amount of work should be given their own discography articles. " I would hardly consider this handful of albums a significant amount of work. -Verdatum (talk) 20:04, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Further, from MOS (list of works)"(Discographies) are included for musical acts (solo or group), composers and other people who have a list of contributions to music. Ordered from oldest to newest. Vital information is the title and year; label and notes are optional. Items may also be divided into sub-sections, e.g. singles, albums, dvds." Seems to imply that sections including categories like singles are acceptable. -Verdatum (talk) 20:08, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ibranoff needs to get off his power trip on this issue. Cage is part of no less than 3 rap duos and a rap supergroup, including his collaborations in his discography is informative and frankly, why would you want to censor information on Wikipedia? Intrinsical (talk) 00:44, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Read the guidelines. "Power trip"? "Censor information"? Are you being serious? (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 02:24, 8 December 2008 (UTC))[reply]

I read the guidelines...please respond to my concerns raised above before reverting. I don't think that's asking too much. -Verdatum (talk) 15:47, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I missed the edit where the discography page was created. I think this is extremely silly for such a short article, but not silly enough to fight over it. -Verdatum (talk) 15:49, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Alex"

Original rap name is listed as "Alex" although his appearance on Pete Nice's solo album in '93 was credited as Benz, which should probably be mentioned 99.225.39.207 (talk) 07:19, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]