One Of hip-hop's most beautifullest vocabulist, there is no mystery. With many hit albums, Keith Murray continues to deliver pure rhyme ingenuity. Armed with an extensive and eccentric vocabulary, sandpapery vocal chords and an edgy attitude, Murray exploded on the hip- hop scene with his Gold-certified debut disc The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World. Catapulted by the LP's dual smashes--the lead single title cut and its follow-up "Get Lifted"--Keith rapidly established himself as one of hip-hop's most distinctive voices under the sure-handed tutelage and guidance of fellow Def Squad lyrical sharpshooter, Redman, and producer extraordinaire, Erick Sermon. On his sophomore effort, Keith assuredly brings his battle-ready word-warrior ways to new echelons of creativity, wielding both his trademark complex and straightforward rhymes that exhibit an added sense of originality, humor and maturity.

"Enigma," Keith explains of the album's title, "it's like you understand what I'm saying and you get the message, but it's not so easily figured out and you don't really know what's gonna come out of my mouth next. My whole album is just based on puns and metaphors and everyday life situations where I'm just keeping you on the edge of your seat, listening and on point." Enigma suffers from no lack of attention-grabbers. While the uncut funk of his debut displayed Keith as a talented disciple of EPMD-style ruckus, Enigma-tic selections like "Yeah" (featuring the E Double, Redman, Jamal and Busta Rhymes), and the first single, "The Rhyme," are characterized by head-nodding rhythms and ringing melodies that expertly complement the intensity of Mr. Murray's aggressive delivery.

Lionheart Productions started in Seattle Washington in 2001. In 2008 Caleb Cunningham Producer/MC for the project has collaborated with some of Seattle's best musicians and singers in order to bring the music to life on the stage. For more info check www.myspace.com/lionheartproductions.

Born in Bedstuy, Brooklyn, NY, 60 Second Assassin is a pretty mysterious figure, who's mostly known for his unique dirty-ass style and voice.

He's name represents the assassination of negative thoughts, not people. Hell Razah explains: "He says everything in one minute. That's why he rhyme the way he do. He assassinates negativity. But before the sixtieth second strikes on the clock, he on me. Actually he goes to the other wall, it places yourself at an advantage, you comin' for something N' he is already there, he already done figured it out before you came with it, basically. But give him sixty seconds which is one minute, he will assassinate something that is negative."

His first known appearance on a record was on Ol' Dirty Bastard's debut album, where he sang on the promo cut "Dirty N Stinkin" and on "Protect Ya Neck II The Zoo" along with fellow Sunz of Man members Killah Priest, Hell Razah, Shabazz The Disciple and Prodigal Sunn, but his most famous appearance was on Raekwon's album, "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...", in the song "Glaciers of Ice". He only sings in the end of the song, but this is where you can find him first say his famous "It's been a looong time..." sentence. He was also featured on the song "Wicked Ways" from the "1 Million Strong" compilation, and also appeared on Killah Priest's solo album, "Heavy Mental", on the track "Tai Chi". Other than that he hasn't made many appearances and you can only find him on the Sunz LP. Lastest contribution can be found on The RZA's produced Afrosamurai soundtrack.

Canibus aka Rip The Jacker (birth name : Germaine Williams) was born on December 9th, 1974 in Jamaica to Basil and Elaine Williams. His father Basil was a cricket player and his mother Elaine (originally from England) moved from Jamaica to the Bronx when Canibus was thirteen. As a child in Jamaica Bis liked to play soccer but picked up a couple of new hobbies in the Bronx like Beatboxing and Breakdancing. Breakdancing became a big part of his life as he began to idolize the members of the illustrious Rock Steady Crew and finally begun to find his niche in the Bronx. He later moved to Washington, DC, Miami, England, Atlanta andeventually New Jersey. He graduated high school in 1992 and went to work for AT&T for a year. After working with AT&T, Bis moved on to the US Department of Justice, where he worked as a data analyst in the Economic Litigation Division. This job required him to use a computer constantly and he quickly discovered a new hobby - the internet.

Canibus, who was always a technology junkie, loved the unconstrained vastness of the World Wide Web. His love for computers and the internet led him to study computer science at DeKalb Community College in Atlanta for three years. While at DeKalb, Canibus also got into the allied health field as he had always been interested in genetic engineering and college gave him the chance to learn about radiology. He interned at an MRI center, examining war veterans. Though Canibus dabbled with several jobs and interests, his main pursuit in life was rapping. During his days as a kid in the Bronx, Bis had evolved through various elements of Hip Hop from breakdancing to beatboxing to picking up a mic and learning how to tear it to shreds. By the time he landed in Atlanta, Canibus had become an aggressive battle emcee with an interesting mixture of unmatched book-smart rhymes and street-smarts.

He met a fellow emcee, Webb, who was holdin down the ATL scene at the time. Webb and Canibus made a perfect combination and in 1995 they started making moves in Atlanta as the duo T.H.E.M. (The Heralds of Extreme Metaphors). T.H.E.M. is probably best known for their legendary battle against the Wu-Tang Clan outside an Atlanta club. Canibus and Webb went toe to toe with the entire extended Wu family, and it attracted attention from people in and outside of the club, trying to figure out who the hell was giving the legendary Wu a run for their money. That was until Wu's Killah Priest stepped up to the plate, he kicked a 6 minute freestyle that left T.H.E.M., the Wu and the 100+ spectators - speechless. Nonetheless, respect was given all around. T.H.E.M. broke up in 1996 so Canibus started Group Home Entertainment with Suitt, the company best known for representing the Queens-based group - The Lost Boyz. But Canibus main love was rapping so Ras Kass invited him to rhyme on a track with himself and Helta Skeltah that was slated to be on the Rhyme & Reason soundtrack entitled "Uni-4-Orm" on Priority Records. Then Canibus received another big break as the Lost Boyz asked for his assistance on their 2nd LP, "Love, Peace & Nappiness" as he was featured on 2 songs, "My Crew" and of course the epic "Beasts From The East" - a verse would go down in history as one of Bis most remarkable ever.

In 1997 Canibus was introduced to Wyclef by Jay-Z...But He was about to get a phone call that would change his career and his life forever.

LL Cool J invited Canibus to appear on his new single "4, 3, 2, 1" and Canibus, admiring the tattoo of a microphone on LL's arm, asked if LL would mind if he got a mic tatted on his arm. LL joked about it, saying that Canibus should only get a mic tattoo if he truly felt he was worthy.

This conversation in mind, Canibus stepped into the booth to record his verse for the song. His line to LL included "Yo LL. Is that a mic on your arm? Let me borrow that!". To this day, Canibus insists that the line was meant as a compliment. However, LL took it as a diss and went in the booth and recorded an entire verse directed at Canibus. When Canibus confronted him about his verse, LL said that he would change it as long as Canibus took the microphone line out of his. Canibus did, and re-recorded his verse, thinking that LL was going to do the same. However, when the final "4, 3, 2, 1" was released, the LL verse remained intact. The situation led to Canibus recorded the song"Second Round K.O."in which Canibus ripped LL to pieces and was one of the biggest Hip Hop feuds of the decade.

In 1998 Canibus debut album, "Can-I-Bus" finally dropped on Universal in September of 1998 (it debuted at # 2 on the Billboard album chart and sold over 127,000 copies in its first week to eventually go Gold). Canibus' 2nd album called "2000 BC" (2000 for the year and BC meaning "Before Can-I-Bus") dropped and was rated better by critics than his debut album.But in late 2000, Universal dropped Canibus so in January of 2001 Canibus went to the UK and did a live session where he finally came back at LL hard (a few days later it was also performed in Amsterdam) - the diss would later be turned into a track called "Rip The Jacker" (aka "I'm Bad") and begin to circulate on the internet. Soon afterward, "Rip The Jacker" could be found at Cani's mp3.com website along with other new material on Gladiator Records. In 2001, Bis wanted to show his versatility so he recorded the story-telling album "'C' True Hollywood Stories" on Archives Records which included the single, "Stan Lives!" - a parody of the "Stan" song by Eminem. Overall it just wasn't the type of Canibus album which his fans liked even though it had a nice R.O.C. disses called "I Gotta Story 2 Tell/Who Ownz You". In 2002, Canibus signed up for the United States Army and in his words "I enlisted because I wanted to get away from the music", "I wanted to do something that gave me a separate definition from what I had done all through my teens and twenties. I was 28 when I enlisted". In May of 2003 he graduated from Ft. Knox and started out as a reconnaissance specialist but in 2004 he was discharged.During the time in the Army in 2002 he released "Mic Club: The Curriculum" which was released on Koch/Babygrande/MicClub Records. The album consists of creative and intelligent rhyming, good production and nice collaborations with Vinnie Paz and Kool G Rap. On the track called "Curriculum 101" he succesfully responds back to Eminem's diss on Em's "Square Dance" song. Also in 2003, Canibus released new material on two mixtapes called "My Name Is Nobody" and "The Brainstream", which were spread all over on the internet.

Still in the Army, Canibus released his Magnum Opus on July 2003 on Babygrande Records entitled, "Rip the Jacker" - totally produced by Jedi Mind Tricks' producer, Stoupe The Enemy of Mankind. The last track on the album, "Poet Laureate II" had Bis giving a summary of his carreer moves by rapping over different beats, and this for many fans is their all-time favorite Canibus track. Also in late 2003 "The Horsemen Project", a collaboration album by The Four Horsemen (Kurupt, Ras Kass, Killah Priest and Canibus) was released on Think Differently Music / Proverbs Records. After Bis came out of the Army in 2004, Canibus hooked up with producer Nottz for a series of new tracks but unfortunately, these new tracks leaked on the internet in the beginning of 2005. Because of the leaking of these tracks they decided to combine the new tracks produced by Nottz and some recent mixtape freestyles into a mixtape called "The Vitruvian Man". In October 2005 Canibus made a collab album (CD + DVD) with Phoenix Orion, called "Cloak 'N Dagga" on Head Trauma Records. Head Trauma Records label is owned by K-1 fighter Dewey "Black Kobra" Cooper and Canibus became vice-president of the label which also resulted in the ending of MicClub Records. In November 2005, the official Canibus and Knottz collab album called "Hip Hop For Sale" finally dropped on Babygrande Records. Originally supposed to be released in May 2005, 5 tracks on it were already released on "The Vitruvian Man Mixtape". But those 5 tracks were re-mastered and the tracks "Da Facelist" and "Punchlines" have new beats with other album production from Nottz, Jeff Wheeler, Jayswiftz, Blackmilk, Tick and J.Star. On the same date of the "Hip Hop For Sale" album release, a MicClub.net mixtape called "Mic Club Mixtape Master Vol. 1" dropped. Most of the new tracks were recorded during Canibus' Army period and MicClub.net even held a contest for fans to design the cover art for the mixtape.

In 2007 Canibus released the album "For Whom The Beat Tolls", which included the historical single "Poet Laureate Infinity".Although the song was a 53 Minute track with Canibus rhyming an unbelievable 1,000 Bars over a switched up beat, only 2 short versions appeared on the album due to time restraints. The album was one of Canibus' best and the reason the single is so historic other from the fact thats it's a 1,000 bar song, is because the mixers on Canibus-Central.com remixed the song a mind blowing 1,450 times - a world record for a remixed song. In 2008 Bis released an internet EP entitled "C Of Traquality",which was uploaded on his myspace (myspace.com/canibus) and was recieved well by his fans with the song Caption Cold Crush being featured on popular websites like hiphopdx.com and hiphopgame.com. In 2009 Canibus has alot of music being released such as the Canibus and Keith Murray collab album called "The UnderGodz", the Canibus, Born Sun and K-Solo collab album "The SharpShooters" and his 10,000 bar (Yes, 10,000 bars) project called "RTJ:Infinity". For more Canibus info, music, video and other material please check Spitboss.com