[3] He was introduced to hip hop through albums like Jurassic 5's Quality Control and the Rawkus Records compilation Lyricist Lounge 2, and was further influenced by his high school poetry class.
[3] As part of his recovery, he worked with personal trainer and family friend Yaakov Lunen, an African American who had converted to Orthodox Judaism.
[1][5] At Aish HaTorah, Murray initially gave up rapping to focus on his studies, until one of his rabbis told him it would be a chillul Hashem to repress his talents in such a way.
[1][5] In 2006, Murray met fellow Aish HaTorah student Brad Rubinstein, who had previously been a guitarist in the short-lived English trip hop band Lisp.
They released their debut album, Infinity through Shemspeed in 2012, followed by their Boss EP, which featured Murray's fellow Seattle native D. Black on the song "Rabbit Hole".