The Hip Hop & Love Tour ft. MURS Play Fox Theatre 11/5

By: Jul. 29, 2011
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The Hip Hop & Love Tour ft. MURS w/ Tabi Bonney, Ski Beatz & The Seneis, McKenziE Eddy, Sean O'Connell & Da$h plays Fox Theatre on Saturday, November 5th, 2011

Doors: 8:30 pm | Show Time: 9:00 pm

Westword & Z2 Entertainment are proud to present The Hip Hop & Love Tour ft. MURS at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, November 5th. Tickets go on sale today, July 29th for $18.50 in advance & $20.00 day of show.

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Over the course of "Murs 3:16" and "Murray's Revenge," Murs and 9th Wonder crafted two of the most enduring hip-hop albums of the last decade. Packed with warm, soulful tracks and the inimitable wisdom of Murs, it's a complex collaboration that's unusual to say the least. On "Fornever," Murs tries to explain just why it works.

"I let 9th pick the beats. He hands me a beat and a lot of times tells me what the song is about, like ‘Asian Girl,' he relates in relation to one of the thornier songs on "Fornever," a no-holds-barred exaltation of the charms of women from the Far East. "He's gotten even more insane with it. But he doesn't stop me from writing about whatever I want to write about. He's the producer, so I trust his judgment the same way he trusts me with the rhymes. We have to have that trust, because we definitely don't understand each other," he adds without a hint of humor or irony. "I'm into beats at all. I don't care how rare the sample is or how you put the track together. Whatever. Just do your thing and I'll do mine and we're all good."

"The idea was to make ‘3:16' on steroids," he stresses. We brought him out to L.A. to record for the first time. Maybe that's what got to him. There's a little more g-funk in his east coast beats this time."

In classic Murs style, "Fornever" finds him covering customary territory, like the delicate balance of love relationships ("Let Me Talk") next to more topical matters, exemplified on the incendiary "Cigarettes and Liquor." A defining feature of "Fornever" is the panorama of guest rappers that appear alongside Murs on the tracks. Dogg Pound veteran Kurupt, stone-cold pimpin' Suga Free and L.A. Latino OG Jacken from Psycho Realm are just some of the names on the list.

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