","According to an interview with Rolling Stone, the ex-Beverly Hills Cop is"semi-retired" from the acting game."All I've been doing is making music," Murphy confessed."I haven't been working on films, haven't been developing movies, or any of that shit." Instead he has been listening to"Bob Marley and the Beatles" and recording his fourth musical LP, tentatively titled 9.
","For Murphy, music was always near the centre of his artistic practice."My stuff [has] always [had] music," he said."If you go back to Saturday Night Live u2026 [or] like in Shrek, the donkey is always singing. Music is always there. I always do joke stuff with it but it's always there and I always do it seriously and I stopped putting stuff out because I didn't want to look like [one of] those actors that be putting out records."
","Between 1982 and 1993, when Murphy released his most recent album, he had a couple of hit singles. The biggest was Party All the Time, from 1985's How Could It Be, which reached No 2 in the US charts (and No 87 in the UK). On the other end of the spectrum, the video for 1993's Whatzupwitu, recorded with Michael Jackson, was voted one of the worst of all time.
","Murphy recorded his new songs at home, writing and producing everything himself."I got shit that sounds like country tracks, shit that sounds like heartland music, I got smooth ballads, I got a song that sounds like you'd play it at the strip club," he said. Red Light, a reggae track released this week, is the first of two songs recorded with Snoop Lion. The second, Mellow Miss Mary, is intended as a"new weed anthem"."On the surface u2026 it sounds like a love song to this chick named Mary. But when you listen to it, it's like 'Hey, man. Is Mary reefer?'"
","As a follow-up to 9, Murphy is also plotting a new stage show. Soon, he said, he will"put a band together" and mount a short tour."[I'll] get the band really hot. And then in a year or two, do music and comedy and have a show like nobody ever had before."
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