Freestyle Friday: Canibus vs. Keith Murray

by Kevin on October 2, 2009

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This past Tuesday, Canibus and Keith Murray released their collaborative EP The Undergods. So I thought it was a good idea to put them up against one another for our Freestyle Friday!

The idea of Freestyle Fridays is to battle one another with your favorite verse from either of the two competitors. You’re essentially battling other commenters in this thread by using the words of Canibus or Keith Murray. We’ve been doing this feature for a little over a month now, but if you don’t remember how it goes, hit the jump for a few rules and then jump in on the comments!

Before we start, let’s see if we can keep the thread in order today, by following a couple simple rules:

1. Please don’t drop the lyrics to a whole song. No more than one verse!

2. Please stay in order…. Canibus, then Keith Murray, then Canibus, etc. If you want to drop a Canibus verse, wait until someone has dropped a Keith Murray one. The idea is to go back and forth. It’s possible that more than one person may be trying to drop a verse at one time… we’ll just keep moving on.

I’ll start this thread off with a verse from Canibus:

“I’m the illest nigga alive, watch me prove it
I snatch your crown witcha head still attatched to it
Canibus is the type who’ll fight for mics
Beatin niggaz to death and beatin dead niggaz to life
When you look at me long enough, I start to read your thoughts
if the signal was strong enough, and then I’ll call your bluff
like, “Yo, how many rhymes you got?” I think I’ll go on
for more Milleniums than Mazda’s got on the car lot
And there’s nowhere to run ta, when I confront ya
Nigga, I call your bluff like you had a phone number
Who wanna see Canibus get wild, who wanna act fly and
get shot down with a surface-to-air missile
I take em on in all shapes sizes and forms and spit on
anybody who ain’t close enough to shit on
Zero to sixty? I’m already doin a hundred
when I’m blunted and I give it to any nigga that want it”

-Canibus, “4,3,2,1″

Related posts:

  1. The UNDERGODS Pt 3: Canibus & Keith Murray Talk Big Pun & Slaughterhouse, Hip-Hop Unity
  2. Keith Murray & Canibus are THE UNDERGODS: New EP Available Tomorrow
  3. The UNDERGODS Pt 1: Canibus & Keith Murray Reveal Details About New Album
  4. Keith Murray & Canibus: 129 [prod by Erick Sermon]
  5. The UNDERGODS Pt. 2: Canibus On Another HRSMN Album, Keith Murray Talks Red & Meth

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  • Gmaine

    That Rhyme from Canibus was one of the sickest ever!! And the track complimented it perfectly!!!

  • http://paydapiper.webs.com SyKotiQ Illement

    Keith Murray’s still coming from the north, south, east, west (yes)
    Obsesssed with my success will make me crack your treasure chest (yes)
    Hot tales of terror slip from my lip clearer
    Slip up the L.O.D. will be behind you in the mirror
    I make MC’s go from regular to fantasize
    Realize my Squad be categorized
    I think the devil’s in this beat, fuckin with my speech
    Makin me do his dirty work
    Makin niggaz kill each other on the streets
    Mo murder, mo murder
    Make no mistake, baby L.O.D. traditional
    Don’t make me have to come lookin for you
    So, see what I’m sayin and watch your mouth
    Cause my motherfuckin Squad hits the streets like a blackout
    What is exactly real? What is represent?
    I see MC’s down and get in my last hits (bitch)
    Niggaz be around like “Yeah”
    That’s what you get for jumping in the ring with a bear

  • skeme

    LOST BOYZ feat. A+, CANIBUS & REDMAN
    “beast from the east”

    Canibus brings the sickest drama
    fierce enough to pierce the thickest armor
    I smack bitches who try to suck dick through the condom
    playing with the mic is something I won’t do
    my only concern when I approach you, is to roast you
    I smoke you and whoever you standing close to
    and make every man in your crew deny that he knows you
    defeating niggas like Segal, Steven
    putting Emcees in positions to prevent them from breathin’
    I’ll make you question any and everything you’ve ever believed in
    by peeping your deepest secrets like psychic readers
    what’s the matter with ya’ll, I splatter ya’ll
    against the muthafuckin wall with these raw lyrics I catapult
    none of ya’ll got the balls big enough to battle
    I go On & On like Erykah Badu
    a hundred times nicer than the best is
    twice as African as KRS is, who wanna test this?
    fuck y’all you don’t impress me and no one can test me
    an emcee so ill, I got AIDS scared to catch me
    all that shit you poppin’ will stop, when I put you in a headlock,
    and apply pressure until I crush your muthafuckin noggin
    I grab mics and push niggas to the left
    so fast their hearts end up on the right side of their chests
    my hypothesis, is that nobody can see this
    lyrical genius, i got it sown like a seamstress
    but if you want to battle, I’m down
    if you got nine lives, I’ll take eight of them off your hands right now
    step up and get your neck cut from ear to ear
    if you survive then you can cover up your scar with a beard
    I’m the illest from Queens to the new Jerusalem briddicks
    anyone who ain’t feeling my shiddit can suck my diddick
    you need to quit it, if you ain’t spittin’
    more than 50 bars per minute cause you ain’t in lyrical fitness
    kickin’ boring raps with metaphors that’s wack
    all of ya’ll muthafuckas need Nordictrack
    to get ya weight up, fuckin with Canibus you get ate up
    beat down and sprayed up, just for bringing my name up
    been rockin’ longer than niggas twice my age
    back in the days before Bob Marley was rockin’ a fade
    before Honest Abe signed the paper that freed slaves
    before Neanderthals was drawing on walls in caves
    I existed, in the garden of Eden gettin’ lifted
    stickin’ dick to Eve before she was Adam’s mistress
    before Christ created Christmas, I been in lyrical fitness
    the Canibus is spittin’ til’ he’s spitless
    50 bars of total sickness, you won’t forget this
    I’m puttin’ every wack emcee alive on my shit list
    verbally vicious, telekinetically gifted
    took you a minute to exhibit that I’m sick wit it
    now you tell me who you think is damaging shit
    going once, going twice
    sold! to that nigga name Canibus
    me and Mr.Cheeks, A-Plus, and Funk Doctor
    hopping out the Huey helicopter to suey chop ya.

  • http://kevinnottingham.com Justin

    Keith Murray – Sychosymatic

    Cow will burn ya, I’m taken MC’s straight under
    And you can’t see like Stevie Wonder (ha)
    Then the black bull blown like style on the microphone
    Throwin’ your chromosomes like a cyclone
    And commerical raps get the gun claps
    A wack on the ground of the head with my ill skill raps
    I’m a kill me a crazy motherfucker tonight
    Step out the light nocturnal to the night (word ‘em up)
    Your sight will put you in fright (word) and none of you wanna fight
    Cause my game is mad tight aiight
    Yo E this might be my last album son (hell no)
    Cause niggas trying to play us like crumbs nobodys
    I’m a fuck around and murder everybody
    And get crazy buckwild with the shottie
    You couldn’t see me if you weighed 500 million karrots
    Cause I’m sychosymatic

  • skeme

    COMMON feat. CANIBUS
    “making a name for ourselves”

    Yo, the Canibus is an animal with a mechanical mandible
    Comin to damage you, spittin understandable slang at you
    I be the all seeing lyrical, hammerhead sharp peripheral
    With 360 degree visual
    When the signal was given, MCs get biten with venom
    >From a poisonous algorithm liable to kill ‘em
    My style will get in ‘em, way up in ‘em
    My face don’t belong in The Source
    It belongs on the shroud of turan, for certain
    I grab mics and murder shit
    It’s wickeder than Satan worshippers going to Catholic church services
    You heard of this
    The lyrical verbalist, trash herbalist
    The wrath of my cold-blooded verses is merciless
    Rap snap, get your ass cracked like bear traps
    Contaminate your air sacs like tear gas
    And I swear black, try to battle me, you won’t last
    I’ll turn your ass into the artist formerly known as, you gay ass fag
    I’ll blow you to ashes with tactics
    Strip you naked, then make you hug a cactus, you bastard
    So phat to be a rap star, takin pictures at music seminars
    People know who you are
    Now I got mad shorties that wanna call me
    Because they saw me, up in The Source chillin on page 40
    Put this in your CD-ROM
    www dot Canibus dot com
    You can find me on the internet talkin to chicks
    That was sweatin me off the Music Makes Me High remix
    I be talkin mad trash tryin to get ‘em to laugh
    See, if I click and drag long enough, I’ll get the ass
    Bring it bag to the lab on Mount Prospect Ave.
    Let your chicken suck me off and send her home in a cab
    You know how we do, liquid aluminum like the T2
    Beast from the East part 2, comin to see you

  • skeme

    ERICK SERMON feat. KEITH MURRAY
    “hostile”

    Keith murray’s, comin from the north south east and left
    Rhymin to death, makin a world when I take a deep breath
    With a body boom bash, my paragraph a trey-deuce
    Human behavior in a psychopath
    Ooooh, I might lose my cool, and break fool
    And pull out my get busy tools
    I write like a mad journalist
    To funk, that’s deeper than a bottomless spliff (that’s my word)
    The most beautifullest thing in this world
    Is my notion, for murderous poetry in motion
    And the illiotic shit I come across
    Form a leash you’re trapped in with explosive force
    I push your head through the cracks of sanity
    And leave your brain doin a bid in purgatory
    It’s ninety-six degrees in the shade
    Before I catch blood on my blade
    I take my frustration to the stage
    And gets open dope and stupid bumblin rumblin tracks
    When I rap my jams be packed like a laundromat
    My context’ll wreck your whole concept
    Cause my delivery is so complex
    And I’m inter-galactic on plastic
    With the superdistinguish that I kick
    I’m high strung at the top of my lung
    With my tongue makin hardcore niggaz wanna get dumb
    My dialogue comes straight from the slums
    Damnage to your medula, cerebrum and cerebellum
    If ya got a crew ya better tell em

  • TECHWON

    DA FACELIFT OFF HIP HOP 4 SALE LP

    You want a facelift? This what it take ‘Bis
    A beat that’ll make a nigga think an earthquake hit
    The blue collar rapper, enigmatic, democratic
    Rap-saavy fanatic that can smash any matchup
    High with a roach, bring wealth and goggles to my show
    My flow glow brighter than any diamond that you know
    I walk among you, draw energy from you
    The art of Sun-Tzu, he used to bust too
    I’m like a Shaolin monk on crunk
    Holdin himself up with his thumb on the stump
    Get a Hummer for the summer to stunt
    And just sit in the front, while my lungs become one with the blunt
    Futuristic old schooler, look like JFK Jr
    When I shoot up, Jacob the jeweler with a new cut
    Can-I-bus, I ain’t got what I want yet
    How would you expect one of the best, what
    I can’t get no, grab the mic, niggaz lets go
    Tell me who got the best flow, end up with less dough
    Open your vest, let your chest show
    I’ma open your chest, let your breath go
    With a thirty-eight special
    Keep it on the low, don’t let the press know
    Behind the scenes, they put me on death row and won’t let go
    Brace yourself while I break the chains
    My beats bang so hard, they erase the blame

  • grady

    yall remember the verse of canibus on the ring with mike tyson the part where the drum pauses off the beat and the stringz bang…i think it brings this topic to a close..next

  • https://www.datpiff.com/GfTd_GrooVe__The_Sound_Of_Right_Now.m37779.html GftdGrooVe

    Keith Murray The Rhyme

    the most beautifullest vocabulist
    punches phony mc’s dead in their esophogaus
    my analysis is roughly calloused
    you better practice if you want to challenge this
    I’m symbolic to the sun moon and stars
    you gettin’ knocked out the box no matter who you are
    the funk phat tracks lures you to listen
    as my vocals send your brain up in the fetal position
    learn a quick lesson of mic aggression
    so when I walk down the street there’ll be no second guessing
    now you can walk the walk talk the talk
    back burnin’ all day but your still fireproof like an ashtray
    I’m a scientist in the mix like Plyx
    turnin’ all you fly emcees back into maggots
    non prop soil watch me bubble and spoil
    punch you Grand Royal as you foam like boil

  • Godd211

    Yo — niggaz is phony frontin like they Master of Ceremonies
    None of you suckers are even remotely close to me
    To be nice I sacrifice things like no sleep
    I keep a library of lyrics on microfiche
    Creating concepts so deep, niggaz quote me
    They rewind and interpret my rhymes to they homies
    I did things beyond your flows, eons ago
    It’s inevitable in ninety-eight I’ma blow
    Ever since eighty-four, I’ve been in it to win it
    But see back then we used to battle by spinnin on the ce-ment
    You can’t even absorb the rhymes I record
    or resolve the deep laws of the physics involved
    I travel to the end of the universe and beyond
    Parsecs, out of range from a cellular StarTec
    From the galaxy of Andromeda; I puzzle niggaz
    like crop circles and other unexplained phenomena

    Canibus- Get Retarded

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