After months of diss tracks met with the worst response of all – shrugs and complete indifference – Canibus once again returns to delivering proper album material alongside legendary Def Squad emcee Keith Murray as the Undergods with In Gods We Trust: Crush Microphones To Dust. Thankfully the clunkiest part of the album’s wordplay is its title as The Burnout Brothers include the strongest tracks from their 2009 EP. They pick up where they left off with new (or unreleased due to some of the dated Bush references) displays as to why they are the strongest technicians from two crews made up of all strong technicians. Stepping into a fan’s shoes, where this latest installment from The Undergods falters is that it doesn’t feel so much like a latest installment. Most likely reason for this is that an earlier EP was essentially split apart and inserted piecemeal in between another EP’s worth of new music not counting three tracks of intro / segue material. The interplay on the tracks couldn’t be tighter but the album feels lost when the tracks are all lined up.
While Keith Murray doesn’t have the same zany pitbull dynamic he has on Def Squad tracks with Redman, when he trades bars – sometimes as frequently as 4 and 4 – with Canibus over gutter funk production like Jake One’s new “Undergods Roll” 
he ratchets up the horsepower so high high he frequently leaves the Horseman he’s sharing the track with back on the starting line. This is in large part due to charisma and rhyme schemes of a caliber unheard from Keith since his three ’90s albums. No one can fuse tales of Templars to chemistry textbook chatter like Canibus, but listening to Keith throw his voice into an Ignnnant Southern drawl, bark at Dog The Bounty Hunter, stutter the D’s in “Desert Eagle” to mimic gunfire or detail making “bombs out of toothpaste” and “sticking a grown man in a suitcase” it’s clear who wins by TKO.
Nonetheless it’s a testament to the often flawless chemistry between Canibus and Murray that midway through the Planet Asia assisted opener “Rock Wit Us” you momentarily forget that another dynamic duo traded bars over the same Margie Joseph sample two years ago on the Only Built For Cuban Linx sequel. And while Rae and Ghost are at their strongest when The Abbot steps in to guide an album’s development even on the tracks he isn’t producing, The Undergods bringing in Erick Sermon to executive produce may have brought them great Blackout style beats but it didn’t help the cohesion when all the tracks were finally linked together.
Yet for those who have followed Keith and Bis’s history of unhinged barking and biting but missed the first installment of their joint effort, In Gods We Trust… will more than make – and smack – up for lost time.
Purchase In Gods We Trust: Crush Microphones to Dust by Canibus & Keith Murray (The Undergods)
REAL MC’S
FUCK FAKE ASS SLAUGHTERHOUSE!!!
FUCKING STAN-DROIDS
You’re cool cause you use caps.. I wanna be just like you.
FUCK YOUR FAKE ASS
YOU’RE CALLING PEOPLE STANS, BUT YOU’RE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF.
GO FUCKING HANG YOURSELF, YOU PIECE OF SHIT BITCH.
Album is decent. Deserves to be checked out. The track “Gotta Be Real” is my favorite on the record.
So you guys reviewed like 2 tracks outta the whole album?!pathetic. This album is straight HIP HOP, no gimmicks not mainstream, no Gay jokes (Emoniem…)just raw hip hop.
“Canbius crazy Ivan,
psychic kamikaze pilot,
driving into the sun like a suicidal comet”
The merchant of metaphors. Still spitting marathon bars! Coppin the album is a no brainer.
Peace to Keith & Canibus
album is pure sickness
Canibus & Keith Murray The New 2 Man Crew! is the hardest Duo this decade … =D
would have liked some slow ridin tracks keith murray used to do, but still an ill album. 2 great lyricists.
it’s like two superheroes in the same comic book
The review is horrible as usual….Canibus clearly outshined Keith Murray, but of course, which seems to always be the case from any media, Canibus gets criticized
I haven’t heard the EP yet but Canibitch better than the Keith? yeah right.
Yeah, from a guy who picks a name of a dude on Cheers who doesn;t like chicks and still lives wit his Mom.
@I’m At Work And Bored
funny you call canibus canibitch, when canibus never did anything to be a bitch, Canibus challenged eminem to battle him at fightclub and EMINEM NEVER SHOWED UP, so who is the bitch, canibus never back down from any battle
shit wack son
comment wack son
apart from tracks i already have that were on the EP…the rest of it is solid!! peace
Dumb fuck right here. You punk bitch, get a life. You sit around and comment all day while your mom screams at you to clean your fucking room and get a job. Find a blow job, like she has. Fuck, you’re so fucking annoying. Every story has one of your obvious or irrelevant responses. Shut up you punk bitch.
Best album out now . damn this is dope
gotta buy it keith and canibus too dope on the mic Undergods roll is nice
Typical stupid ass review from HHDX like we’ve all come to expect. i should buy this website and fire these stupid ass writers lol nway, just like everything that features the Canibus man, this is a fuckin dope ass album!! only problem i have with it is that as usual Bis outshines everyone on the entire album. in my opinion they probably should’ve each done singles and maybe 5 collabos instead of doing each and every track together. i mean no disrespect to my nigga Keith Murray but most of the time i just wanna listen to Bis alone on a track. but nway i recommend yall go out and buy this ASAP
Idiots.
Hot damn! Murray sounding MAD FRESH again! Too bad some wack fool reviewed this album.
their chemistry was sick as fuck, this album is something you guys should check out, don’t be a biased phaggot.
actually listen to it, its pretty good.
Good shit
Canibus is on fire this year, good LP, Murrays dope on it too, Lyrical Law is gonna be even better
the album was fire, great production, the chemistry between both artists was great but Canibus definitely out shined Keith on a few tracks
ill.
TORSION FIELD BEST RACK ON LP!
Dope shit!!!!
Soon a very soon we are going to see the king!
Bis’s verse on superweapons is lethal!!!
awesome review. really. mr shaheen is a real journalist. i’m sure he’s deprived himself of any sex to focus on his poorly written reviews. salute this man. keith murray out did canibus? please. canibus clearly didn’t even go full throttle on the nigga, he was playing nice so keith could keep up. a few tracks bis decides to turn it up and he makes keith look invisible. BTW – keith looks like he was sucking on barnies dick, homies lips is purple like prince.
what up canibus
LOL wtf, canibus geot outshined? yeah right, the reviewer obviously knows NOTHING about rap lyrics to say something so absurd. i mean did he not listen to any of the songs or something? canibus actually had to tone it down on most of the songs to not leave his friend in the dust. this review is a fucking joke
BS review
i would suck your dick with power of a thousand vacuums
Canibus has destroyed Keith Murray’s rep. Not by being dope, but by being a bitch on Twitter. This album mattered in 2008. Too little, too fucking late.
You do realize that the Canibus Twitter account that you were talking about was a fake right? The real Canibus actually released an official statement saying that it was. The Fake account was a fan who felt the need to offend Bis…and when the fan found out that Bis was pissed off, they apologized and deleted the account. People should get their facts straight before they post.
I bet if any of the stans out there actually listened to this then they would see Bis is a very good MC, an absolute dick yes, but a good MC nonetheless. Album is a 4 for me, could have been better, both dudes were on fire throughout the LP though.
This was a dope album (terrible review by the way…poorly written). I will say that on certain tracks, Murray’s charisma made him shine a bit more than Bis, but to say that he was better than Bis on this LP is completely absurd. Bis’ verse on “Tetragrammaton Gods” for example is not only the best verse on the album, but lyrically it’s one of the best verses this year period. However, this album wasn’t about them out-rhyming each other or whatever. It was about two MCs coming together to create a dope project…which they did. This album was good for Hip-Hop.
That’s a very constructive criticism as well as constructive comment man…big ups 🙂
This review was terrible. Poorly written and you only talk about 2 songs. Keith murray came nice but where were these multis you speak of ? Make it sound like hes big pun or something.
Anyways i enjoyed the album. Murray had dope presense and spit hot bars followed by silly ones. Bis killed it. The chemistry between them was awesome. You can tell they call themselves the burnout brothers because all they did was smoke and chill out making this album. It sounds like they had fun making it.
Torrison fields is awesome. Keith hypes it up big time and bis just killed it.
Months of diss tracks ? It was like a week. Michael. How you gonna write hip hop reviews and be named michael. Did your mommy proof read it for you ? Seems like an editor didnt.
i cant believe you fucktards got paid for writing this review. Really saying murray was better than canibus? he didnt even fucking use one multi in the entire album, canibus mechanics are unheard of in this day and age of one sylable rhymes on the radio. KNOW TRUE HIP HIP IF YOU ARE GOING TO WRITE A REVIEW FUCKING DOUCHBAGS
stop actin like canibus is the nicest ever… tech n9ne horseshoe g.a.n.g. eminem nd every member of slaughterhouse all use multis all the time nd do it better than canibus borin ass
Lol, you’re talking like Canibus is the only rapper who uses multi-syllabic rhymes. There are people like Elzhi, Diabolic, DOOM, AZ, Vakill and tons of others who are not only able to rip mics, but actually craft dope music.
he never said he was the only one, just that keith murray didn’t use them. damn, can smell the haterade from here..
I like Keith Murray more than Canibus on this album, they both got different styles and Keith’s is so street and gully is crazy! So Central Isl! While Canibus is more “vocab”, making you go greab a dictionary type. On Freestyle a Chorus Keith just abused that mic like the spaniards did to the Taino natives in the Carribean… “You sorry sack of sh*t, son of a b*tch/ put a gun to your head and make you suck a dog’s d*ck/ We hardest motherf*cker since Mc Ren/ sucking a black air out, double bag again/ You cant f*ck with me and you wont/ before that happen dog, Ill cut my own throat/ Im electromagnetic in the studio session/ you a square head n*gga like Johnny Heston? so anyway, you a dead n*gga/ you might as well put the burner in your mouth and pull the trigger” … and coming from the Emcee that punched Pridigy from Mobb Deep on the face , slapped that worker from Def Jam (the reason why he got dropped from the label) and “guest appearances” thru the Justice System has the credebility that lack Canibus
5 stars bitch
I wish Canibus would get his old flow back. He still has crazy metaphors and multis but his old flow was fucking crazy.
This guy actually said “it’s clear who won by TKO.” He really thinks Keith out rhymed/out shined Canibus on this album? I don’t think homie knows what being lyrical is. I like Keith, a lot, but no sane person would ever say he out rapped Canibus anywhere on this LP. What album is this guy talking about? Is he really talking about the Undergods LP? I think this dude has issues with Bis based on his opening comment “months of diss tracks.” Months? LOL! You could get a 9 year old to write a better review than this guy.
Anyway great album! Tracks 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 17, and 18 are my personal favs. Much respect to Bis and Keith for doing this.
i thought keith outrhymed canibus…
I never liked the music Canibus did, but damn, you just can’t deny the fact that this guy has SKILLS and nothing but pure SKILLS. This guy is the definition of spitting heat in every sense of the word. You don’t have to like his music, but his lyrics are out of this world.
3.5 is good
Straight fire! Just when one thinks Bis can’t get any better, he once again amazes. Keith of point also. The best team since EPMD!
Very good album, terrible review.
You should be embarrased, Michael Sheehan
dope as fuck!