This is what you can expect from me, and I finally feel like I have production that fits who I am, rather than me just getting beats from people. This is my defining work from here on out. There will never be a sequel to Love and Rockets probably, but I kept on saying, because there was supposed to be The Rockets 2: The Declaration, kind of like “This is me.” I feel like this is my definitive album. I’m going in a new direction, and I feel like we gotta leave that in the past. Yeah, a lot of things – certain things I can’t speak on yet, but things had changed for me so I said “You know what?” I’ve become a father, signed to a new label, moved my house. It was just another time, and I kind of had transformed, you know? A lot has changed in my life since then. I’m in a whole different place.” That series of albums was supposed to be done with another label. The Love and Rockets one was called The Transformation. Once I started recording this record, it sounded bigger than anything I’ve done in the past. What got you away from the Love and Rockets thing? Because that was going to be the title for the longest time. It’s a nice way to tell someone to “Fuck off,” but then it’s also a nice way to tell someone, like, “Yo,” ’cause you never know, y’know?

Everybody wants credit, y’know? I’m giving them all credit, but it’s something I came up with. Ubi wants credit for helping me with that, so okay. I called the album Have A Nice Life because it was something I just said to people often.

The title of your album is Have a Nice Life. Read below to find out why MURS’s album has very high expectations. You would think definitive MURS means boom-bap and underground. The charismatic and legendary emcee sat down to talk with us about the album and how it formed into what he calls his definitive album.

With Have A Nice Life, MURS is not only bringing a new sound to Strange Music, but his entire catalog (and now that we think about it, hip hop as a whole).

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