February 4th 2011 — While holed up in the lab putting the final touches on his soon-to-be-released eighth studio collection, The Beauty of It All, Central Islip, Long Island’s own prodigal son, Keith Murray, returns with his brand new lead entry, “Strange Encounters.” The Beauty Of It All also features the stellar production expertise of top tier beat-makers; RZA, Mr. Walt & DJ Evil Dee [Da Beatminerz], M-Phazes, The Sultan, among others.

In addition to the new LP, Murray has also recently entered into a business partnership with Paris, France, based 3headz, where he will follow in the footsteps of luminaries like Dr. Dre and Jay-Z by endorsing his very own line of state-of-the-art headphones.

It has been well over sixteen years since “your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper” dropped his, now gold certified, solo debut, The Most Beautfullist Thing in This World, and after an additional five respectable individual outings; Enigma, It’s a Beautiful Thing, He’s Keith Murray, Rap-Murr-Phobia (The Fear of Real Hip-Hop) and mix-tape offering Intellectual Violence, a popular joint effort with mentor Erick Sermon & Redman [Def Squad], as well as high profile collaborations with Mary J. Blige, LL Cool J, R. Kelly, Kelly Price, Puff Daddy, Ludacris, George Clinton, Jamie Foxx, and Too $hort, to name some, the iconic emcee is back like he never left.