By 1996, the pressure was on to deliver a follow-up that could match the critical and commercial success of his debut. The hip-hop landscape was rapidly shifting; shiny suit materialism was beginning to take hold, while the underground fiercely defended its sonic grime. Sandwiched between these worlds, Murray delivered Enigma —a title that perfectly captured his status as a complex, hard-to-decode puzzle in the rap community. Production: The Sonic Landscape of Erick Sermon