Keith Murray Returns With Second Album In Two Years

After a four-year hiatus from album-making, Long Island, New York's Keith Murray released Rap-Murr-Phobia last July on Koch Records. While the Tyrese-assisted lead single "Nobody Do It Better" garnered limited airplay on commercial radio, the effort was met with critical and commercial disappointment, despite production from longtime partner Erick Sermon.

Less than a year later, Murray is returning with Intellectual Violence on April 22. The release will be on Legion of Doom Records, a Traffic Entertainment-distributed imprint that will see Keith's sixth solo release hit the shelves.

The album is reportedly 25 tracks deep, with vocal assistance from Def Squad cohorts Redman and Erick Sermon, with the latter also contributing production. Songs include "Pen Life," a chronicle of Murray's long bouts with incarceration. Another song is "Don't Hate Me 'Cause I'm Beautiful," a tribute to his 1994 debut album The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World, which many consider a classic album, and Murray's best.