Keith Murray Speaks on New Album

Keith Murray has had to wait more than 4 years to get his career back on track. With label quarrels and some time to mentally prepare himself, he's back. This time, his album will come via Koch Records and he recently claimed he was "elated" by this new deal.

"People be like, 'Where you been at for four years?' I be like, 'Damn, it's been four years?' I had to go through a mental process with Erick [Sermon] to get to the physical process where we are now. I had to go back to the proper elements that created us. My last situation was undesirable. I had to erase that which took some time to get back to the mental elements that created us. I listened to Enigma [an album dropped in 1996] , listened to [his debut] The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World ... listened to the Redman albums," he told MTV.

"This album didn't take me four years [to record]," he said of his newest LP Rapp-Murr-Phobia, set to drop July 31. "What took me four years was to get my mind in the proper perspective to come out right. My heart is in this album I know n---as is gonna love it, so do it right. Sit down and take time and do it right."

Erick Sermon was instrumental in making of this album, as he has been for the most part of Murray's career.

"We sat down and made it from high-hat to kick to snare to subjects to words to sentences to paragraph, from scratch...E only used two samples on this album, 'cause you know Koch ain't paying for samples. So it brought the best out of us. I work best with my back against the wall, like, 'This has to pop. This has to be ferocious, so when a mutha----a picks it up, they'll love us.' I wasn't comfortable with $2 million, then [the album] fades. This has to be potent, this has to be what they love me for. So I did homework on myself."

He also noted that he expects great things from himself and he only expects one thing from fans.