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Xbox Nation chats with Los Angeles-based rapper Murs about Bruce Lee, Nintendo purses, free music, and punching game developers.

Murs has been busting things up in the rap game for over 10 years now, dropping his own brand of science with the likes of Company Flow, Aceyalone, Jean Grae, and his own Living Legends crew. In a section of Los Angeles graced with a deep, gnarled history of jazz legends and gang violence, Xbox Nation spoke with Murs and his squad of game ninjas at their home base.

Xbox Nation: So we heard that you made a song about Xbox?

Murs: Yeah. I was living in Orange County and I had just gotten my Xbox. The song is "My Xbox Rules"—cos I'd rather play that than talk to you fools. It was basically like, "I don't have to go out now. I don't have to go anywhere. F**k all you guys—you're all drama anyway." And now, especially that I have my Xbox, I don't really have to leave my house.

XBN: So you never got a PlayStation 2?

Murs: We've been waiting for Xbox since Dreamcast. We don't play no PissStation, don't play no purse [GameCube]. His cousin [pointing at one of his friends], due to family ties, they're allowed to play some GameCube, but…

XBN: What don't you like about PS2?

Murs: Well for one thing it's Japanese, and they always get all the cooler games first. And I'm depending on Xbox—Splinter Cell and Halo are two of the only exclusive games that we got first, and they were really, really good…but hopefully in the future we'll be able to get the games first, for once. Like even when we had N64 and Dreamcast, we always had to buy Japanese shit, or get it chipped so we could play that stuff…and they would always get games that we'd never get over here that were so dope. So I have faith in Bill and Microsoft. Although it's wavering a bit as of late…

XBN: Why is that?

Murs: Well, I'm such a fanatic to the point where I'll go to the store with my friends and they'll be like, "Look at my section," and it's like half the wall, while Xbox is in the corner somewhere… I got DOA Volleyball and that's alright; the control is kinda iffy and I don't like the POV, but it's better than BMX XXX.

Are you responsible for this whole Blinx fiasco?

XBN: No, we had nothing to do with that.

Murs: That was horseshit. That's when Microsoft pisses me off—it's like, there is no Mario, there is no Sonic…it doesn't exist for Xbox so don't try to make it exist.

XBN: Any interest in the other systems?

Murs: Well, some GameCubes actually fell off of the truck in the neighborhood so, after coming over here and asking permission first, I bought one. I played Mario Sunshine—because I'd been fiending, secretly, if I may confess my sins here—and I got it and I was just like, well: It's not a 10, there are paint demons, and I wanna shoot somebody. Yeah, I defintely outgrew it, so I gave it to my little cousin. I was forgiven for my sins so I bought TimeSplitters for the neighborhood. They let me back in.

The Xbox just feels like a real system. When it came out I was like, "Okay, I'm an adult, there are three systems out there, which one am I gonna buy?" So I was like, okay, it's American, that's a plus. It's a more powerful system, that's a plus. The games will come…if I go out there and I support it and I don't buy a PS2 it kind of makes a statement…if I have my Xbox and my PS2 and I buy PS2 games and sell my Xbox…then it becomes Jaguar. And I'm too old; I can't buy three systems cause I won't have time to play them all. So I just picked one.

XBN: You made a serious decision.

Murs: I can actually say it was worse than buying my car; I put more thought into this than buying my car.

XBN: That's intense.

Murs: And this being LA, we're very…[pauses] You side with one thing, like I side with the Xbox. Yeah, it's video gang banging. Gamebanging. [Laughs] We're official gamebangers. Good guys wear green; that's our color.

Kevin (Murs' friend, aka Street Element): See we don't have lives, so…TimeSplitters and GoldenEye are the key to stopping all violence in the world. Just take it to the sticks; that's the key to world peace. If you've got a gang problem just pick up the sticks and you won! See what happened when they didn't come out with a good sequel to GoldenEye? Violence went up! All they had to do was keep the license with Rare, and come up with a proper GoldenEye sequel, and violence would have dropped...

Murs: It was like Robotech…I bought an Xbox for Bruce Lee and Robotech, mainly, and both of those games sucked ass.

Kevin: Can I just say that I think Bruce Lee was the worst game I've ever played in my entire life?

Murs: And that was one of those I didn't question…you know, I'll usually wait to read some magazine reviews before getting a game, but here I was like, "Bruce Lee! I've gotta get it! It's Bruce, it can't suck."

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XBN: We heard the Bruce Lee estate considered suing Universal over that game. They said it defiled the license.

Murs: F**k Universal. The next game needs to be about the spirit of Bruce Lee coming back and kicking their ass. Maybe these developers and publishers need to meet us in order to understand the fear, because fifty dollars doesn't come easy. And we're not some gamers who just sit in our house—I'll whip your ass if I see you on the street. If you cost me fifty dollars I'm gonna whup your ass. That'll be another game: Murs Whups the Developers' Ass.

Kevin: That's like finding out that someone threw the game. You bet big money on the game and they threw it—you're gonna beat the shit out of them. All developers' faces should be on the box. Someone should be held accountable for this.

XBN: Switching gears for a second, what's your feeling on the music industry right now?

Murs: Thug rap needs to not be so hard, and underground rap needs to not be so extreme. I think everyone needs to come to a middle point where they're actually talking to human beings.

XBN: Do you think people expect certain things from you at this point in your career?

Murs: I think so, but I thinks kids who have been listening to me know what to expect. I'm a guy who plays videogames, I get drunk, I like sex, and I smoke cigarettes. And that's all I'm gonna talk about—I'm not gonna talk about any guns or any lyrical giants… you're just gonna get real stuff from my own life. As long as somebody rips it to their Xbox hard drive, that's all I care about.

XBN: How do you feel about the whole MP3/digital music situation?

Murs: I love it. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be as big as I am. I think it disturbs greedy people—it makes greedy people upset. If you sold a million albums, who cares about how many of those people downloaded it? So you could have sold two million albums? You're just being a bastard at that point. And those are the only people complaining.

Like, before this album, there's no way for anybody in France to get my record—we didn't have distribution in Europe. But now on Def Jux they can…and I think those same kids will buy it. Because they know I'm not being greedy; I need support so I can go buy a videogame…I don't need f*cking two million instead of one million.

XBN: Do you think it's hurting you or helping you, financially?

Murs: Helping…definitely. I can't afford to buy ads and whatnot—and there's no better promotion than one human being playing a song for another human being. And if they can't afford it or they can't buy it or find it in the store, but they go and download it and burn it and play it for ten people…when you become a fan of something, you go out and buy it. Just because you have a mod chip in your Xbox doesn't mean you're not gonna go out and buy a game, it just that you're tired of going out and being ripped off by f**king games like Bruce Lee.

XBN: But when you find a game that's worth it you'll support it…

Murs: Yeah, I'll go out and buy it, because I want that developer to prosper.

XBN: I don't think companies give people enough credit for making those decisions…

Murs: Exactly. I think that people who aren't in touch with their fans will say that. You know, when I perform, I don't have ten security guys around me. I'll go right out into the crowd and sell my music. I'll buy someone a drink, someone buys me a drink and we talk music. I'm talking to every kid when they leave—if they have a burned CD they'll come up and they'll show me, and say, "Yo here's 15 bucks, gimmie the real thing." Or if there are 10 kids and they can't all afford it I'll sell it to one of them and let the rest burn it. It's music.

XBN: So it's the money people who are worried about it right now…