Murs For President
Murs
Released:
Sep 2008
Label:
Warner Bros.
Murs is stylistically boring -- he clogs up his lines with too many syllables, and the tone of his voice rarely modulates beyond its snappy, terse urgency. But aesthetics and velocity have never been the point -- Murs is more of a poet than a rapper, and Murs for President is strongest when it diverges from familiar tropes. "Science" gives a social history of the hip-hop generation and makes a case for the emcee as rap's Howard Zinn, while "Everything" is more personal, chronicling a history of lunchroom beat downs and social anxiety. Still, most of his songs are too knotty to be easily untangled, and that's the point.
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2008 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.