MURRAY,KEITH - The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World |

Personnel includes: Keith Murray, Bob Fudjinski, Kiki Hitsville, Jeff Stewart, Ron Jay, Fifty Grand, Paul Hightower, Hurricane Gloria, Redman, Jamal, Erick Serman (vocals).

Producers: Erick Sermon, Rod "K.P." Kirkpatrick, Busta Rhymes, Redman.

Personnel: Keith Murray (rap vocals); Jeff Stewart, Bob Fudjinski (vocals); Erick Sermon (background vocals).

Audio Mixers: Dave Greenberg; Bob Fudjinski.

Recording information: Music Palace; Rockin' Reel Recording Studios.

In a year that saw a load of formidable hip-hop debuts, Keith Murray's MOST BEAUTIFULLEST THING IN THIS WORLD stands out like a well-versed diamond amidst a pile of coal. The difference between Murray, who first presented his style as a guest on Erick Sermon's "Hostile," and other MCs is his aberrant, morphous vocabulary that constantly invents and re-invents the rapper's language: "My vocabulation is out of your imagination" is how he describes his signature flow on "Dip Dip Di." Backed throughout by Sermon's hard, funk-influenced production, Murray kicks his distinctive rhymes with the confidence of a veteran--knowing when to drop his complex poetry upon the listener, and when to step off and let some of his Def Squad homies (the aforementioned Sermon, Redman and Hurricane Gee, among others) have a go at it. In fact, on the chorus of the album's title cut, a massive jeep-hit from the summer of 1994, you can hear the rest of Murray's supporting cast step away and egg his "word-attack skills" on, aware that they're in the presence of a unique lyrical mastermind.

• Genre: Rap
• Released: 1994-11-08
• Format: CD
• Format: CD
• Released: 1994-11-08