Murda Mook
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Johnathan Ancrum, better known by his rap name Murda Mook, is an American rapper from New York. Murda Mook is primarily known from battling other rappers on underground DVDs titled Smack DVD and occasionally The Come Up along with MTV2's Monday Night Fight Klub television show. Recently, Murda Mook is also famous for bringing his whole crew, or supporters to amp his battles. He has also won through the battles of the underground.
The name of Murda Mook's crew is "Money Ave.", which consists of T-Rex (who is his cousin), Nymesis, Breezy (Ron Browz), Young Van (a.k.a prince of Harlem) and others.
This Harlem freestyle battler has battled other famous rappers such as Jae Millz and Serius Jones. Murda Mook also recites written lyrics in freestyle battling which is discouraged by all known freestylers) as his crew usually adlibs his verses. Murda Mook has a known situation with Cassidy where they were supposed to freestyle battle but never materialized. Murda Mook currently also has "beef" with Detroit and Highland Park rap group H Pilla, (consisting of Young Miles and X-Factor) who dissed him with a video entitled "Mask Up (Fuck mookie)". Which you can see on youtube. Another rapper named B-Nite of 3-Mob took shots at Murda Mook. Murda Mook also has beef with Young French.
Mook was featured on the track "Beef 2" off of Talib Kweli's critically acclaimed mixtape "Confidential", using his verse to criticize the way the music industry currently sees rap battles.
Murda Mook Battles
- Murda Mook vs. Jae Millz
- Murda Mook vs. Loaded Lux
- Murda Mook vs. Party arty
- Murda Mook vs. Weeze
- Murda Mook vs. Cardi(duece One)
- Murda Mook vs. Verse
- Murda Mook vs. Serius Jones
- Murda mook vs. Joey Jihad
Much of Murda Mook's success within the area of battle rapping can be found in his charismatic ability to inclusively entertain spectators by using story telling tactics and analogies that envoke the crowd. While his opponents may direct their lyrical efforts strictly towards Murda Mook, his rhetorical tactics seem to include both speaking to the crowd (regarding the particular individual he is rapping against) in addition to randomly directing his speech towards his opponent. Murda Mooks attention grabbing words subsequently engage all onlookers on an inclusive level, while his opponents words may only seem to engage him; this proves extremely effective in winning the judgemental favor of those who are watching the battle, for the reason that it tactfully converts onlookers into spectators of a verbal blood sport which is being directed and choreographed by Murda Mook himself. Despite this, Murda Mook is often critized for writting his verses before the battle takes place and recycling the previously mentioned verses in other battles; both of which are strongly discouraged in freestyle battling.
