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...cutting edge Def Jux label and aspiring Harvard student, Murs is finally starting to break it big after many years on the West Coast underground. Def Jux has become the hip-hop label to watch thanks to the careful management of rapper and CEO El-P, the Jay-Z of the underground. Jukies always appear on each other’s albums, and the tours become traveling carnivals of talent dominated by the Jukies themselves, but with a healthy accumulation of friends and guests to round things out. In fact, the Def Jux label is on track to become that...
...these descriptions. He has been called the most mainstream Def Jux artist, a suggestion supported by the fact that his last album, Murs 3:16 The 9th Edition was produced entirely by 9th Wonder, who had his big break producing “Threat” on Jay Z’s Black Album...
...rowdy and cheering as he leaves the stage to Shock G. Murs is a little hazy when asked about his future. There is talk of a 3MG (3 Mystic Gypsies, one of Murs original West Coast crews) album in the summer. But Murs, like Andre 3000 or Jay Z, says he is, “Moving on. I’m retiring from hip-hop. I’m ready for school. You think I’m kidding about that application, but I’m not.” I’m sending him the application this...
Sanger, who is also a Crimson editor, said that the New York Times aims to ensure that people were not getting all their news from popular late-night entertainment programs like those hosted by Jon Stewart, David Letterman and Jay Leno...
From the dance floor, Indian music percolates to the recording studio. Hip-hopper Jay-Z and British-based Indian producer Panjabi MC served up Beware of the Boys, which featured Jay-Z rapping over a remixed version of a song that Panjabi had made a hit in Britain and India. Even Britney Spears is getting her Ganges on; she used British-South Asian producer Rishi Rich on her last album. And you know a culture is hip when it generates a superhero; that's Bombaby, a cult comic-book out of California...