AllHipHop.com interviews Murs
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AllHipHop.com: In the East, Kanye West linked Talib Kweli and Jay-Z together for the “Get By Remix.” What a marvelous time in Hip-Hop! Do you think that such a thing can happen out West, as you pound the pavement? I know you have E-40 on the soundtrack on your own remix…
Murs: To put it as frankly as I can, honestly, I’m like, “N***a, come on.” I can’t do anything else. If Jay-Z will go f**k with Talib, why won’t Quik f**k with me? Why won’t Game f**k with me? Why won’t Ice Cube f**k with me? On the West Coast, we don’t have that. Jay-Z said, “Who’s the best MC? Biggie, Jay-Z, or Nas.” N***as in Watts aren’t talking about that. N***as on my block aren’t talking that. Motherf**kers don’t care. Lyricism is way overlooked on the West. There is no Jay-Z or Nas of the West Coast. You’re either a gangsta rapper or a [backpacker]. Nobody gives E-40 respect as a lyricist, except for me. Or Suga Free, I think he’s a mastermind. Nobody gives Ice Cube the respect that LL Cool J gets on the East Coast. A lot of it is also attributed to the gang-bang culture we live by.
AllHipHop.com: In what way? Murs: It’s real. In New York, a lot of it was just Rap. The Jay-Z and Nas thing never left the Hip-Hop arena. You best believe that if Quik gets at MC Eiht [it’s different]. S**t was real! Ice Cube had a fight in the street. This is a motherf**kin’ millionaire, fighting with a well-reputed gang member, and getting his chain snatched. It’s not a f**king game for us. It’s real life! These things are rooted in street problems like the DJ Quik/MC Eiht thing – they were just from rival neighborhoods. It really wasn’t a Hip-Hop thing, from the beginning. Or, if it starts as a Hip-Hop thing, it’s quickly gonna go to a street thing, ‘cause everybody’s affiliated with somebody. Even me, I’ve had instances where dudes get at me and my boys find out, and I can tell them all day til’ they turn blue in the face, “It doesn’t need to go there.” If they feel like, “Oh, he disrespected the hood, he disrespected you, we can’t let that happen.” There’s so much that keeps us from succeeding. We’ve just got to make a conscious effort like, “Yeah, Murs is a weirdo, he’s a backpacker, he’s a skateboarder, whatever you wanna call me, but the mothaf**ka can rap. Let’s do a song.” People think ‘cause maybe I’m a backpacker that I don’t like Gangsta Rap. That’s all I listen to! I like women and money just like Suga Free likes women and money. We just do different things with our women and do different things with our money.
to read the whole interview go here:
http://www.allhiphop.com/features/?ID=1176
curtousy of www.allhiphop.com
AllHipHop.com: In the East, Kanye West linked Talib Kweli and Jay-Z together for the “Get By Remix.” What a marvelous time in Hip-Hop! Do you think that such a thing can happen out West, as you pound the pavement? I know you have E-40 on the soundtrack on your own remix…
Murs: To put it as frankly as I can, honestly, I’m like, “N***a, come on.” I can’t do anything else. If Jay-Z will go f**k with Talib, why won’t Quik f**k with me? Why won’t Game f**k with me? Why won’t Ice Cube f**k with me? On the West Coast, we don’t have that. Jay-Z said, “Who’s the best MC? Biggie, Jay-Z, or Nas.” N***as in Watts aren’t talking about that. N***as on my block aren’t talking that. Motherf**kers don’t care. Lyricism is way overlooked on the West. There is no Jay-Z or Nas of the West Coast. You’re either a gangsta rapper or a [backpacker]. Nobody gives E-40 respect as a lyricist, except for me. Or Suga Free, I think he’s a mastermind. Nobody gives Ice Cube the respect that LL Cool J gets on the East Coast. A lot of it is also attributed to the gang-bang culture we live by.
AllHipHop.com: In what way? Murs: It’s real. In New York, a lot of it was just Rap. The Jay-Z and Nas thing never left the Hip-Hop arena. You best believe that if Quik gets at MC Eiht [it’s different]. S**t was real! Ice Cube had a fight in the street. This is a motherf**kin’ millionaire, fighting with a well-reputed gang member, and getting his chain snatched. It’s not a f**king game for us. It’s real life! These things are rooted in street problems like the DJ Quik/MC Eiht thing – they were just from rival neighborhoods. It really wasn’t a Hip-Hop thing, from the beginning. Or, if it starts as a Hip-Hop thing, it’s quickly gonna go to a street thing, ‘cause everybody’s affiliated with somebody. Even me, I’ve had instances where dudes get at me and my boys find out, and I can tell them all day til’ they turn blue in the face, “It doesn’t need to go there.” If they feel like, “Oh, he disrespected the hood, he disrespected you, we can’t let that happen.” There’s so much that keeps us from succeeding. We’ve just got to make a conscious effort like, “Yeah, Murs is a weirdo, he’s a backpacker, he’s a skateboarder, whatever you wanna call me, but the mothaf**ka can rap. Let’s do a song.” People think ‘cause maybe I’m a backpacker that I don’t like Gangsta Rap. That’s all I listen to! I like women and money just like Suga Free likes women and money. We just do different things with our women and do different things with our money.
to read the whole interview go here:
http://www.allhiphop.com/features/?ID=1176
