Keith Murray is one of those emcees that has never had the career someone of his talent deserves. He has had two very good albums which never got their due and had to spend three years in prisons on an assault charge. Things just haven’t always worked out for Mr. Murray. Upon his release in 2001, things seemed to be looking up as he signed with Def Jam.
With his single “Fatty Girl” making some noise and his album “He’s Keith Murray” just around the corner, Murray is suddenly dropped from Def Jam. Word was that he choked out a promotions guy. Here is what Murray had to say to allhiphop, “I got into a disagreement with one of the niggas that work up there. He took the situation up into the office, saying things like he couldn’t work under the pressure. I would call Kevin [Liles, President of Def Jam] about certain things and it would be done with. This guy put a letter into human resources and they told Kevin that they (human resources) would deal with it.”
There was more to it though, “Due to the lawsuit that Lyor got into with TVT and the thing going down with Murder Inc., they gave me my release because they didn’t want to deal with it,” Murray added. At this time Murray is hard at work in the studio and has started his own label Head Rush Entertainment.
