murs is originally from this "crew" called the living legends. they used to be from the SF bay area (the east bay to be specific) but the moved to LA a few years back. murs, in my opinion, is one of the few from the LL crew that i like - the others being eligh and the grouch (the producer on the first "felt" album). the rest of the LL crew im not too into but they have a pretty large following.
another great album to check out from murs is called "Murs 3:16 the 9th edition". its murs and 9th wonder (from little brother) on def jux. everything ive heard from 9th wonder has been really f'n good. if you do a little p2p searching you can find a bootleg album that 9th did called "god's stepson" where he took nas' god's son album and wrote new music for it. its really worth checking out...
i was also wanting to buy the new little brother album but they didnt have that in stock

ive heard maybe 3 or 4 tracks off of it and they sound amazing and ive read nothing but good reviews so im really looking forward to picking it up.