Murs stopped by to share his insights about working with the majors, his contempt for complacency, and his creative process.  He discusses a myriad of topics ranging from his constant touring schedule to his new book.

On never settling…

Familiarity breeds contempt, and I’ve had a lot of contempt for familiarity…we can be honest, mothafuckas got famous on the west coast and just got real comfortable with it.

On working with Warner…

It disproved a lot of the myths that underground people have about working with major labels.  There’s not somebody up there making people make negative music.  It’s a bunch of ni**as…excuse my French…trying to be famous that make their own negative music.  Has nothing to do with any engineering of the system, or the white man, or whatever the fuck you think is going on.

On touring…

I’d rather play for 30 people in Philly than play for 3000 people in Seattle because Seattle will always be there (for us), and I love the West Coast, but I want to bring West Coast music to the East…Everybody tours, but nobody goes West of Colorado.

On sampled beats…

I love rapping over sampled beats but I got sued…like I was on Perez Hilton for being sued. So, I’m hot…I’m the guy that you DON’T want to sell drugs to. I’m the guy that you don’t want to send sampled beats to cause we’re both gonna get sued.