9th Wonder: from one living legend to another

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My "holy shit" moment of the week: getting a Definitive Jux mailing list message crowing about how they redesigned their website, visiting it, and reading this:

"...we're running it back on heads and pulling out the big guns with a new album from MURS, produced entirely by rising star 9th Wonder (fresh off his contribution to Jay-Z’s Black Album)".

Goddamn. "The Threat" was kinda understated but tighter than Bill O'Reilly's pooperhole, so I'm aching to hear more, and Murs is definitely the kind of MC who could do justice to a beat like that. NERD RAP RUNNIN' SHIT IN '04

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

my close friends designed the def jux site.

i like 9th wonder

i do not like murs

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

is Murs the guy who had the song with (Slug maybe) about how they eat all these Prozac pills and antidepressants all the time? If so, I like him.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

second that:
9th wonder = good (but not great...yet)
murs = not very good (but not terrible...yet)

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

That was with Aesop Rock, and yes, that was a larf. He also did a song about skateboarding (and his inability to do a proper kickflip). And apparently he collects action figures. He's kind of a nerd, but at least he's shameless about it.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

very shameless about his nerdiness. songs about masturbating and such.

i didn't really like his beats and just thought his voice sounded like aceyalone and maybe i was going through an anti-backpacker moment?

i'll listen again

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I kinda figured Murs:Del::Diverse:Talib Kweli

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

murs is not a living legend

― fmh, Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

He is part of the Living Legends crew though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

im sure Pasty Kensit was in a band called Ninth Wonder.

― jed (jed_e_3), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Memphis Bleek is taking a cue from Jay-Z. The Memph Man has enlisted one of The Black Album's producers, 9th Wonder, to produce the bulk of his next LP. Bleek says he hopes to have the project in stores by June.

― William Wiggins, Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Nate, you heard the Little Brother album yet?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Memphis, I'm afraid it's just never going to happen for you.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Not yet, but I copped the Murs 3:16 EP and it's good enough. Average/typical-if-catchy cod-Kanye beats, though there isn't as much lyrical personality as The End of the Beginning.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I kinda figured Murs:Del::Diverse:Talib Kweli

More like Murs:Aceyalone::Diverse:Kweli

I think Murs is pretty cool.
9th Wonder is dope

― djdee2005, Friday, 27 February 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

four weeks pass...

I just got this. First impression is the beats are nice, the rhymes and flow just OK, but at least they don't interfere with the vibe. I'm not sure if "pleasant" is a compliment in this context, but there it is.

Unintentionally funniest lines of the year, though, might be on "And This Is For..." (which has one of the ablum's smoovest grooves), when he's talking to white hip-hop fans: "What's the reason why my album doesn't sell like his? Don't front like you don't know why the hell that is. It's because he's white..."

Uh, yeah. So why do 50 and Jay-Z and Kanye and and and also sell way more to white kids than you, M? Also, weird words for a guy on El-P's label.

― spittle (spittle), Friday, 26 March 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Mursoginist?

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, yeah. So why do 50 and Jay-Z and Kanye and and and also sell way more to white kids than you, M? Also, weird words for a guy on El-P's label.

I'm pretty sure he's comparing his sales to Aesop Rock and Atmosphere's (yeah, Slug's not white, but all his fans think he is).

― djdee2005, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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