My main concern regarding the track is simple: why this one? El Nino featured much better songs that Keith could have stolen to fill the Def Squad quota if he needed to. I forget the reason why Keith couldn't get Reggie and E-Double to record a new song, but I assume it had something to do with his jail sentence. This is the exact same song as appears on the Def Squad's El Nino album Keith even kept the Too $hort guest spot intact. RIDE WIT US (FEAT REDMAN, ERICK SERMON, & TOO $HORT) That means it's enjoyable enough at first, but has the capability of getting more and more annoying with each subsequent listen.ġ4. If only more people gave a fuck about Keith Murray, this could have been released as a single to radio. Keith's lyrics are pretty good, but in no way does this song (or this album, so far) compare to any of his early work. If you were a fan of Keith's second album Enigma (like me), this should be the song you skip to first, even though the hook is frustratingly annoying. Would work better than one of those ambient sound radios you get from The Sharper Image to help you sleep better.
Keith was never one of those rappers that was hard to understand anyway, but you'll appreciate the easy-to-follow storytelling here. This hook is pretty bad.Ī much slower-paced beat than you would expect from Keith, but in this case, very good. Sounds like Erick Sermon wanted to remix Def Squad's "Full Cooperation" beat, but decided to give it to Keith instead. Canibus sounds meh (ever since he dropped Can-I-Bus, I haven't been really impressed), but I'm convinced that Keith Murray should replace Kurupt in that Four Horsemen supergroup with Canibus, Killah Priest, and Ras Kass. That would be the only press that It's A Beautiful Thing would get, sadly. I remember that it was controversial at the time that both LL and Canibus appeared as guests on the same album, on back to back songs, no less. Still a pretty good song, but built over a very Erick Sermon-cliched beat, if you know what I mean, and I think that you do. Erick Sermon on the rap album intro? Apparently, Keith Murray was locked up before this album was even finished, if my wild imagination is any indication.Īt least Keith sounds as good as ever, even though the beat sounds like a Redman reject from the cutting room floor. Once he finished his prison sentence, he jumped ship to sign with Def Jam Records, home of his Def Squad rhyming partner Reggie Noble the ending of that tale will have to wait until I get around to reviewing his Def Jam album. That video had a hokey Batman motif and was utterly ridiculous, which can sometimes translate into sales, but not for Keith alas, his sales were as low as ever. Not exactly the best way to capitalize on the success of his crew Def Squad's joint effort El Nino, as well as their cover of "Rapper's Delight" that was still blowing up on mainstream radio, but at least Keith has the street cred thing down, motherfuckers!Įrick Sermon produced It's A Beautiful Thing in its entirety, and to my knowledge there was only one video released, for "Incredible", Keith Murray's collaboration with LL Cool J, whom he had first worked with on Cool James's Mr. Allegedly he broke a bar stool over some guy's head in the middle of an argument, a crime for which Keith maintains his innocence. Keith Murray (real name Keith Murray) was locked up when his third album, It's A Beautiful Thing, was released to the public by the folks at Jive Records, home of Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears.
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