Poplockin, Crip walkin, chronic blunts, G-Funk A place that everybody hate, but you gotta see once (Chorus) I'm from L.A. (ahh) Southern California Fool the West coast, where everybody is somebody And the game is fame, do every thang with a bang And everybody wanna know, what set you claim I'm from L.A. (ahh) Southern California As long as there’s gangs I expect there to be gangsta rap. By his own estimate, the Mid-City L.A.-raised and Arizona-based rapper has circumnavigated the globe 17 times. The Music District is a physical space in the center of Fort Collins, Colorado. I couldn’t decide which one. (Murs) I'm from L dot A dot Californ-I-A hot Days got shade let me take you 'round the way Lot of out-of-towners can't handle this city Where you wear the wrong color and it can get tricky But that was eighty-six and, things done changed We a lot mo' evolved with the way that we bang Not the rips and the dawgs, man the smog might kill ya He doesn’t miss anything,” emphasises Carter.So this time we were able to bring both of our wives. No one’s Cripping in Kraków, Poland but Murs’ spider-sense stays on alert.“Poland is mad gully,” Murs assesses of his surroundings. Murs: O.C. If you’re gonna be a drug dealer then be the best, if you’re gonna be a gang-member then be the best gang-member you can be. Usually we do it at his house (produce/record) His brothers, cousins, sisters, uncles, aunts, father, mother, we are all very close and they’ve become my extended family.”For me being from uh truly ignorant and very sad gang culture.
I don’t come with guitar solos or nothing, You have to kind of understand what I’m saying. Torcha came over with his wife and his mates. I have a lot of respect for the independent scene in Australia. And so when I’m with someone who ain’t where I’m from, I love to representing where I’m from so much it makes me want to to do it ten times harder.I think there is space for everybody. I did [‘No Regrets’] with Hyjak N Torcha. “They want to fight, I don’t wanna fight.”It’s the fourth day of his latest European tour. I hope we can continue working together for as long as we can exchange energy on this plain and even beyond that, you know. Heavily produced by his long-time friend Jesse Shatkin, “During the recording, I was staying with my mom,” Murs says. He doesn’t like to miss recitals or ballet or gymnastics or soccer games. We’re not the same creatively, we’re different in our personal lives, we’re two different people.” MURS discussed a heated moment between he and 9It works, and most importantly it works for the listener. A long-serving west coast rapper, MURS stays staunch and devoted to his home town and thanks to the interstate bounces of North Carolina’s 9New tracks from his and producer 9th Wonder’s fourth outing, last year’s “Hopefully when we’re dead we’ll be over.
He said, ‘fuck decidin’ imma rap on both!’ he was just happy to chill out and be in the studio with 9I have A-Love’s album, Bliss N Eso’s album, Funkoars’ album, Muph N Plutonic’s record. We could be best friends till the cows come home and make good music. He’s a family man. I hope we can continue working together for as long as we can exchange energy on this planet. We shot a video on the beach, I don’t know if it came out, its a song called ‘No Regrets’ I fuck with a lot of people – Hilltop Hoods, Brad Strut. I’m there to add value and a different dynamic, not to ride coattails.”He mostly lives in Tucson, AZ these days, but Murs’ lyrical terrain hews close to his native turf. “They’re loyal men of their word. I don’t think some people’s marriages work as well as we do. Murs calls the album a collection of stories, and this is (more or less) the story of his rap career. If you’re super, really into being a Crip and you’re around a bunch of Bloods, the more Bloods you see, it’s gonna wanna make you be even more of a Crip.