MURS - Bad Man

Clearly a Bad Man, doing his best to pretend, MURS on this track off the 2004 album MURS 3:16 The 9th edition.



MURS (born Nick Carter on March 16, 1978 in Los Angeles, California) is a West Coast underground MC. He is signed to the independent label Record Collection and is a member of the hip hop groups Living Legends, Felt, the 3 Melancholy Gypsys, and previously the "elusive" Log Cabin crew.



The name 'MURS' is an acronym for Making Underground Raw Shit. He hails from the Los Angeles neighborhood of Mid-City.

He is currently set to release his seventh studio album, Murs for President, on September 30th, 2008.



MURS 3:16: The 9th Edition was released on the Definitive Jux label. Vocals are provided by MURS and production is entirely handled by 9th Wonder, formerly of the group Little Brother.



The title of the Album is a reference to MURS's birthday of March 16, as well as 9th Wonder's involvement in the album.

Murs - Better Than The Best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC8XjnIwlog&feature=user

Having spent a couple of days in the mainstream of the West Coast, and a couple more days too sick with the flu to post, I thought I might challenge the stereotypes with a bit of underground LA Hip Hop from MURS - which stands for Making Underground Raw Shit - with a song called "Better Than the Best" where he addresses the preconceptions about West Coast hip hop:

"I mean we got Dogg and we got Cube
Everybody with this blue and the red feud
Man these dudes always trying to kill something
I'm putting words together hoping that you feel something"



While not quite a diss track to his predecessors he puts the wheels in motion with some tight lyrics coming out of LA minus the gangster rap stigma, over a loop sampled from The Four Tops "I Can't Help Myself".

This is a recurrent theme in MURS' style and if you want to check it out more see also "L.A.".

"Better Than the Best" comes off MURS' 2008 album MURS For President.