Jessie Murph Hopes To Make “Gucci Mane” Proud While Throwing “Blue Strips” On Recent Singles.
“I'm from Alabama, I'm 'bout 4'11" / I've got a sh*tty father, and I'd like to go to Heaven” Jessie Murph deadpans in the opening lines of her recent single. It feels like Jessie is having a brutally honest conversation with you. Built on a sample of Gucci Mane’s 2009 song, “Lemonade,” “Gucci Mane” (the song) is a slow burner that grows on you with each listen. Murph has been steadily releasing new singles following her 2024 debut album, “That Ain’t No Man, That’s The Devil” (released through Columbia Records).
Underneath it all, although Murph reveals she’s a big softie, “Internally, I'm scrappy, but I'm afraid to fight / so I stay in at night,” she admits she can’t stay away from bad boys, “They tell me not to falter to tell them who I am / But I'm not f*cking sure, I know I love sh*tty men / They normally contribute to the state that I'm in / This place that I'm in, this f*cking state that I'm in.” She also laments on how she’s “the first one in my family to see a million bucks”.
An Alabama native, Murph has a soulful, bluesy voice that goes way beyond her 20 years. She would rather write about than talk about her conflicting feelings. These feelings continue in the second verse, where Murph addresses her complicated relationship with her Dad saying, “I write songs about my father and the fucked up shit he did / But I take one out of the chamber 'cause I'm learning to forgive … I would like to not be bitter, yeah, and I'd take that back.” She also talks about preferring her coffee black and dealing with paranoia at 4 am.
By the end of the song, Murph - now more relaxed after venting her heart out on what sounds like one big run-on sentence - talk-sings, “I walk in with my head held high, I feel like a tall child.” The bouffant she’s been sporting lately definitely helps height-wise. You can picture her leaning back on a lawn chair, glass of lemonade in hand, concluding with, “I'll sample Lemonade to make Gucci Mane proud.”
On the flip side of confessional Country tunes, "Blue Strips" finds Jessie seeking revenge on a former lover. And what better way to do it than going to a strip club?
“Boy, I ain't mad / Boy, I ain't mad / Boy, I ain't mad at you / I had to get back at you / I had to get back at you.” The song kicks off with a blaring, yet rousing chorus that immediately pulls you in. Here, Murph - in her talk-sing twang - brags to an old lover how, “I just bought a mansion in Malibu.” Jealous? At the club, Jessie throws blue strips (slang for $100 bills) at a dancer she finds attractive “Yeah, you got me throwing blue strips …in the strip club” while, simultaneously, throwing $1 bills at (presumably) her former lover’s new girl “Throwing ones / At your b*tch.”
Jessie plans on taking this new dancer home to forget all about the man who did her wrong. “I'm going home, l'ma a take it off for him / I'ma strip down all your wrongs, yeah.” The song returns to that contagiously catchy chorus of “Boy, I ain't mad at you…” that you’d sing/scream at the top of your lungs with your girlfriends at a club, in a bar, on a road trip. It’s a radio-ready, good time!
To accompany her big 60s hairstyle, Murph recently announced her new “Worldwide Hysteria: The Tour” in support of her upcoming JM2 era (at press time, album #2 remains untitled). The tour begins later this summer (July 2025) and will span into November 2025. Purchase tickets here!
In the meantime, both "Gucci Mane" and "Blue Strips" are available on streaming platforms everywhere now!
