“Turn off the beat man, turn off the beat.”

Canibus is a rapper whose career never catapulted to where it should have gone due to his inability to fully embrace and utilize his talent.

Recently, he had some words for Invasion Radio when they asked him to freestyle alongside his Undergod partner, Keith Murray.  After Murray shredded through an instrumental and set up the alley for the rapper, Canibus declined.

The mood seemed to change after the DJ jokingly stated that she had a hot 16 to kick.

“Yo don't disrespect and say you have 16 bars.  That's what I'm saying man.  You have to have respect for men who rock rhymes all day and all night.  It's a game to you.  I've been vocaling and doing shows for four weeks, then I come up here and just look at me like, ‘Yo, spit somethin'.”

Going on somewhat of a diva tirade, the rapper added that rapping is up to the rapper and no one can just force a rapper to drop some bars just because they want to hear them.

“If anybody wanna rhyme, we just rhyme and if we don't wanna rhyme, we don't rhyme.  You can't push one way or the other, you have to just chill too.”

He also spoke on how he has bled himself dry for the craft and for the fans and has not been able to hold anything for himself.

“I give Hip-Hop everything and don't keep nothing to myself.”

Talk about a way to throw off his own promotion, the rapper that once feuded with LL Cool J has been off the radar for quite some time so the world of Hip-Hop has high expectations.  It only makes sense to give listeners just a sample outside of the upcoming album.

It's not like they were trying to get him to tap dance in Black face or anything.

To say fame got to his head would be inaccurate, solely based on the fact that he was never THAT big in the mainstream and essentially faded into obscurity.  The talent is there, without a doubt, but he has lacked the willingness to push himself over the bar when opportunity presents itself.

A person only has so many chances.

Sometimes in life, greatness is acknowledged, but is never truly recognized and respected.  In the game of Hip-Hop there have been many formidable rappers that have never been able to fully shine the way they were supposed due to the overall politics and BS that surround the music.

They saying of united we stand, divided we fall comes to mind in instances such as this where artists cannot build themselves individually, but can shake the foundation with someone by their side.  Slaughterhouse, comprised of individual lyricists with bad breaks in the industry, is a testament to that statement.

A new duo emerges in the form of Undergods, which is made up of rappers Canibus and Keith Murray who are both respected for their mic presence and their ability to rhyme, but have never been given the proper outlet in their solo careers.

In an interview with John Public, Canibus breaks down the concept of their alias.

“Essentially the name symbolizes underground, then we gods with it.  Just the aspect where we have been rhyming since the incision of our careers, even though they happened at different times.  We have mastered certain aspects of lyricism and Hip-Hop…We mixed it up that way”

The history between the two stretches back to 1995 as different career paths blocked the potential of them actually coming together earlier.  One request to have both artists on a track set everything in motion as Murray stated that he was able to get in touch with Canibus from there and get the ball rolling. 

“Cuz we were given the green light to go in and do the record our way, what came out was organic,” said Canibus.  “The result is an album that would have happened no matter what was going on in the economy or the world around us.  We went in the studio like it was a submarine and we did a two week bid and finished 20 records.  We did more than that, but 20 is what's coming for the album, after they drop the EP.”

Currently the group has two street records out bubbling “Undergods” and “Die Big Time” which features another superior lyricist in the form of West Coast rapper Crooked I.  They are in the process of linking up with Tech Nine to go on tour, which has also been rumored to feature Slaughterhouse.  As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together.