Earlier this week, Brooklyn Bodega sat down with legendary California emcee and Living Legends alum Murs. During the interview, Murs touched upon the topic of Malcolm X’s impact and legacy. He talked about how the famed activist affected his musical perspective and how Malcolm X’s life relates to conscious rap.
“A lot of conscious rappers will do strictly conscious,” he said. “[The Autobiography of Malcolm X] doesn’t leave out his negative years. He didn’t start like ‘I found the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and that’s my life’. He took you through the negative shit. So I’ll talk about [the negatives in my music]…yeah, I’ve fucked porn stars, I’ve fucked strippers, I’ve fucked prostitutes. [I’ve never] paid, but I’ve fucked girls that were prostitutes. I’ve smoked. I’ve drank. I’ve done everything you’ve done and now I’ve found this new way of living. I’m married, but you can’t share the light without the dark…Some of these conscious rappers, they like to drink. They like pepperoni pizza. I see them. They like white bitches. I see them. They chase pussy and everything, too….There’s a middle ground. There are regular muthafuckas that live everyday and love.”
The full interview with Murs can be read here.
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If Malcolm X where alive today he’d be reppin’ rappers Murs and other underground artists. He encouraged black pride and dignity and discouraged non-violent direct action because it didn’t do shit. You gotta get down and dirty to be who you wanna be and get what you want, and you need to accept that. The underground rap game is no walk in the park, and i like that Murs isn’t pretending to be anything he ain’t. Living Legends rap is real, this is real hip hop.
Murs comes across as very ignorant when he says that he’s fucked white bitches as an example of doing bad things. You would think in 2010 this viewpoint would be eliminated. I’ve been to Living Legends shows and the crowd is at least 75% white. I’ve never understood the mentality of a black man w a white woman as selling out. Oh well, I guess ignorance still remains.
He’s referring to the fact that the majority of consious rappers consider themselves “Afrocentric”, but they still have sex with white women. He never said having sex with white women is bad.
Yeah right nigga, you fucked prostitutes but never paid. My ass, nigga. Fuckin bitch ass nigga.
What happen to the 10 albums? Madlib was able to do his medicine album series, don’t how many to go before he finish, but come on you are behind, in 4 days it will be 6 months left to get at least half done.
Respect to Murs, but I think some of today’s backpack/conscious rap guys go overboard in stressing their “regular dude” credibility… Does he really have to go out of his way to tell us about banging porn actresses, strippers and call girls (but of course, he never paid, that would be gay, right?)..
Going back to the Golden Era, most political/conscious rappers had a certain image, whether intended or not, that they were nothing but 100% disciplined in their behavior, ala Chuck D, KRS, Brother J or even Rakim. The image was, most were teetotalers, didn’t get high, didn’t chase women.. and of course, the super-cynical heads would have their reactionary comments that these guys were too pro-black for their own good, preachy, thrill-killers, possibly gay..
Fast forward to the past 15 years, and today’s alternative-rappers (Common, Kanye, Wale, Mos Def, etc.) were influenced not just by run dmc, PE, KRS, de la, but also Too Short, Ice T, geto boys, Death Row, Suave House, etc.
I think a lot of these current guys are frustrated at not selling huge, but they don’t want to succumb to the stereotype of political/conscious rappers so they go out of their way to prove to the audience that they’re into buck-wildin’, personally reckless behavior just like 90% of the crowd..
Big up Murs. Real person as you can tell from his music. We’ve all done our share of shit, so throwing stones at Murs is really hypocritical. Don’t break your nose w/ the stone when it bounces back on yo ass…
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i mean first off i want to say its good to see any african american man do some real shit … with that being said this whole interview was bullshit brother shabazz told his story as he grew murs is still not to the point where he can consider himself “changed” the comment about white bitches was outta line for a “changed man ” the comment about brother shabazz supporting violence is totally false that one of u made in reality malcolm supported non violence to those who were non violent to us . he said that you cant be non-violent to a person thats so set in there ways of being violent because the only thing they understand is violence dum niggas murs step ur shit up son before u do some sus ass interviews comparing ur walks to the great brother shabazz