★★★★★
Love "My favorite flight is the one that goes home, keep your family first cause you cant do this alone" 'Love': An overused and romanticized four-letter word that has ended relationships, ruined and rescued lives and a word that propels hip hop culture. Love is complex and multidimensional which makes it by far the most common theme throughout music. Murs' Love and Rockets- Part I: The Transformation is no exception...
- www.djbooth.net
2011-12-07
★★★★★
If producer Ski Beatz (formerly DJ Ski and before that, MC Will-Ski of Original Flavor) were a point guard, he'd be prone to hot streaks where everything he touches goes swish and long droughts that leave him inactive. From 1996 to '98, Ski helped orchestrate three great NYC rap LPs: Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt, Camp Lo's Uptown Saturday Night and Sporty Thievz' hidden gem, Street Cinema...
- exclaim.ca
2011-10-27
★★★★★
MURS is one of my favorite rappers. He is also one of my favorite people. I've always seen MURS as one of the genre's moral compasses. He has never shied away from stances that might be seen as controversial or topics that weren't popular. He manages to balance the underground sound, with the sound of the street and mix it with a more mainstream sensibility without sacrificing his vision or sound. It is one impressive juggling act...
- www.syffal.com
2011-10-13
★★★★★
On Fornever, the fourth collaborative album by MURS and producer 9th Wonder, the duo is smart enough not to tinker with a winning formula. "Cigarettes & Liquor," "The Lick," and "Live From Roscoe's" find MURS playing hood sociologist as he explores, respectively, the irresistible pull of instruments of self-destruction like cancer sticks and malt-liquor bottles, and the self-contained universe of the corner store and waffle house...
- www.avclub.com
2010-04-22
★★★★★
The goatee got chopped, but this Living Legend won't stop Somewhere between the elitism of hardcore backpackers and the anger of hardcore thugs is the music of Murs. The pleasing thump of 9th Wonder's beats will keep them both happy, but they will nevertheless have trouble pigeonholing the Living Legend's steelo. On Murray's Law, Murs dismisses fake thugs with, "understand that you broke, you tryin to get money/but you don't start gangbangin in your mid-20s...
- www.urb.com
2010-02-13
★★★★★
If there are any two genres in the landscape of contemporary popular music that at least vaguely mirror one another, those two genres are hip hop and punk music. The origins of both date back anywhere as early as the mid 70s and as late as the late 70s, and, in their respective idealized forms, each promotes creativity and originality, among other positive messages...
- rapreviews.com
2009-11-27
★★★★★
Murs probably wouldn't get elected on a change platform. His major-label debut after years on Def Jux feels status quo for the most part, and new labelmates will.i.am and Snoop only dilute his product with lazy cameos. But there's still much to admire about Mur's campaign to turn on some heads. The song Everything, for example, glides with crisp beats (mixed by DJ Quik) and even manages to utilize a James Blunt sample effectively...
- nowtoronto.com
2009-11-07
★★★★★
Odder than anything beaming in from Planet Weezy is Warner Bros.' decision to take a chance on indie interloper Murs just when hip-hop sales have gotten as terrible as the rest of the music industry's. Pitchfork noted that "mainstream hip-hop has little time for ordinary dudes," and I'd add that neither does the underground, which prefers to lionize principled nutcases like El-P and MF Doom and Kool Keith...
- www.villagevoice.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
During his stint as lead vocalist for Buckshot Lefonque, Frank McComb made an interesting and arguably accurate statement on the title track "Music Evolution" where he pointed out that "bebop and scattin' was an old school flow [of rapping]...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
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