Keith Murray & Fredro Starr’s MC Battle Is Back On The Books (Video)

UPDATE: In the summer of 2014, it was announced that veteran 1990s MCs Keith Murray (Def Squad/UnderGods) and Fredro Starr (ONYX) would face off in a competitive battle. After the event was promoted, it postponed.

More than one year after it was first reported, the match-up is back on. Next month (October 4), at Milk River in Brooklyn, New York, the two MCs will finally face off. The MCWar.com event will feature the headlining battle, with veteran DJ Enuff dropping the instrumentals for the match-up. Ralph McDaniels will also be a host/MC of the ticketed evening.

The two contestants appeared in promotional video for the battle, each claiming that the show-down will be a career milestone.

On MCWar, predictions are featured via video from Rap peers, ranging from 50 Cent to M.O.P.’s Lil Fame, among others. In the time since the battle was announced, ONYX released May, 2015’s Against All Authorities EP. Keith Murray has worked with DJ EFN, Mark Morrison, and others.

Now that it’s back on and for real this time, who do you select to win?

The original July 18, 2014 post:

For a brief point in the early 2000s, Keith Murray and Fredro Starr were Def Jam Records label-mates. Two New Yorkers, each are products of the early 1990s transition from the iconic popularity of the 1980s (greatly mentored by Erick Sermon and Jam Master Jay, respectively). These artists thrived in the later Tunnel era, and were around as Rap music reached a heightened popularity in the late 1990s. The ONYX and Def Squad MCs grew to be in an elite class known with making uncompromising hardcore Hip-Hop, and still being embraced by mainstream, with radio, video, and film support.

Both artists, who are active in 2014 (ONYX released WakeDaFucUp a few months back), have agreed to test their mic skills in new ways. AllHipHop.com reports that Fredro and Keith are battling in Stone Mountain, Georgia on September 28, as part of MC Wars’ “Super Star Battles.”

The rules to the three-round affair are as follows:

“Each artist gets two verses of 16 bars over a beat that will be performed back-to-back just like they were doing a song together. Breaks should be no longer than two to four bars depending on the crowd volume and applause.”

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