Dre Murray is an American hip-hop artist born and raised in Houston, TX, now residing in Oklahoma. Several successful albums have helped him reach the billboard charts with both independent and studio releases. He has been nominated for numerous awards in hip-hop and writing, including a Dove Award. Dre's work has become influential through pushing the Christian hip-hop medium to be more critical of its own genre and through truly inspired writings around the struggles of true artists in a field of good-two-shoes messages and fear of being offensive. Murray also pushes hip-hop in general through new ideas in streaming releases, compositions, and "visual albums".