Lord Jamar has had a long-standing beef with Keith Murray — but the Brand Nubian founder recently put aside his differences with the Def Squad rapper to wish his longtime adversary well after a disturbing video emerged online.
Taking to his Instagram on Sunday (June 25), Jamar shared the video with his followers while tagging Murray in the post, and urging the Enigma rapper to get some much-needed help.
“Our brother @keithmurrayrap obviously needs serious help,” he wrote in the caption. “I don’t have to see this man do drugs in front of me to know he’s on drugs. Dude crossed a line with me, that I believe if he wasn’t on drugs he wouldn’t have crossed, so I forgive him. We need to get our brother clean, cause this is a horrible look.”
9th Wonder, Doodlebug from Digable Planets, and Immortal Technique all commented on the post in support of Murray, as well. Check out the post below.
Prior to his IG post, Lord Jamar implored Murray to get help on his podcast on Thursday (June 22). Jamar was addressing Murray’s prior appearance on another podcast, in which Murray allegedly threated to “slap the shit out of [Lord Jamar]” when he saw him again.
But rather than feed into the taunts, Jamar addressed the larger, underlying issue. “At the end of the day, I just want to say that addiction something that is serious,” he said. “You know, many of us had people in our families that have suffered from addiction, and although we may not like some of the things that they do … we still love them at the end of the day. So hey, Keith — still love you, brother.”
Murray’s precarious mental state is something that was also recently alluded to by N.O.R.E., who addressed why he reneged on having Murray on an episode of Drink Champs back in March.
“We love Keith Murray, but let’s also be upfront,” he said. “We’re concerned. His mental health doesn’t seem that we could put him in this environment and smoke and drink. Now, if he can we gon’ do it. If he can sit, he can smoke, he can drink, we gon’ do it.”
He continued: “Or he doesn’t have to smoke or drink. We don’t wanna — the thing is we have responsibilities. We know there’s a certain amount of people that watch us every week, every month, every muthafuckin’ year, but why would we put a rap legend in jeopardy? And that’s what it’s feeling like.”
NORE put DMX in jeopardy. I aint forget.
And Lamar Odom
Yeah never forget what NORE did to dmx
So where is Keith Murrays family? If he needs help they should step in. It shouldn’t be left to the hip-hop community.
Family ain’t shit these days. Have you looked at society recently .
Family tends to disown you when you’re a POS.
Stop it, have you ever had a family member or friend dealing with drug abuse or mental health issues? Unless they pose a danger to themselves or others there isn’t much you can do. They ultimately have to make that choice. How many people kept trying to help DMX? As a family member all you can do is tell them they need help but it’s on them.
GTG is the df
He trolling
I feel like if he was truly concerned why post it to social media? Clearly you something is wrong. He’s laughing & making sure to call out his name so people know exactly who it is.
You right cause if ypu really wasn’t trying to put him on blast you wouldn’t have posted ityo Start with. Its said we use people demons against them. I pray he gets help but it also maybe he either doesn’t want the help. Plus i see people say where is his family at. Family will disappear just like the fame if you can’t do anything for them.
I feel like if he was truly concerned why post it to social media? Clearly you see something is wrong. He’s laughing & making sure to call out his name so people know exactly who it is.
Keith Murray once pulled a gun on my brother. Florida. Fortunately, he didn’t pull the trigger, but he put it right in my brother’s face. So, I can’t really say anything bad or have a grudge against him or anything. But yeah, he’s had an issue for some time now. You have to understand the brain changes involved with drugs. It’s almost as if that’s the only thing on their minds and the only thing they know how to take care of. Anything, any type of conversation any kind of trigger can set off serious addicts to go back to it again. You’d be surprised how fast, less than an hour. He’s all alone out there. Where are his friends and family when he’s down? Nowhere to be found.
Zero fucks.
Zero fucks.
I’m not understanding, Didn’t kieth Murray just perform on the B E T Awards?