Author Topic: Hack Wilson presents: The Live Squad thread (Read 447 times)

Hack Wilson - real · « **on:** April 23, 2014, 05:33:32 PM »

I've lost a lot of interest in the Live Squad since I used to do work for Live-Squad.com almost a decade ago but I still bump them from time to time and I'll always wish Majesty would release the shit he has with Stretch and Pac (Enemies With Me OG and Married To the Mob original....and probably a bit more i don't know aboutt). The only reason I lost interest was Majesty's horrible way of doing business. I know he got ripped off hardcore by Tanner and UK Ice cream but he said he was going to release a LS project back in like 2012 and that shit still hasn't surfaced. No hate though...dude is probably busy as hell with his modern life. But still a bad business tactic. Anyways Stretch and Majesty deserve to be known for more than 2pac and Nas's producers as they were robbed of their own chance at hip hop stardom because of Tommy Boy records being ran by a bunch of pussies. Stretch made so much dope music without Pac that nobody is aware of sadly. Here's some of the shit many people here don't know about:

http://www.sharebeast.com/mq4gh27n0v12 Shit List part 1

http://www.sharebeast.com/xigjrzhekxia Shit List part 2

http://www.sharebeast.com/hf4wiwn6sjwm Hard Life (Majesty dedication to 2pac, Biggie, Stretch, E Money Bags and Kadafi)

http://www.sharebeast.com/o2gjc1y3pr9h Wrong Nigga (Stretch murders this song)

http://www.sharebeast.com/17n6o6ynxp3v Heartless (original Full Vocal blood drop mix)

http://www.sharebeast.com/lmwz9gkmlap2 Holla If U Hear Me Original (2pac featuring Live Squad unreleased version)

http://www.sharebeast.com/e8vbno6eedml Movin On Up In The World

http://www.sharebeast.com/eukronr2u2l0 Danger Times featuring 2pac (best rip that I have. i challenge someone to up this in better quality)

http://www.sharebeast.com/eqaj3j5zhz3x Heartless (remix) (I ripped this off a rare vinyl in 05/06 and someone I gave it to leaked it years later in lesser quality. this is the best one i have but I still could have done a better job ripping and will do so in the near future. A random fact about this song is that Majesty says Live Squad used to do this version most of the song at their shows)

i'll upload more in the near future if people want me to. I know almost all of the Live Squad shit I have IS out there if you search your ass off like I did but I'll post most of my shit here if people want it. Seems like mosto f dubcc is sleeping on Live Squad though.

Seagully · « **Reply #1 on:** April 27, 2014, 01:19:11 PM »

BUMP.

Desert Lord · « **Reply #2 on:** April 27, 2014, 01:35:16 PM »

props man!
hope to get some more live squad hook ups

Hack Wilson - real · « **Reply #3 on:** May 02, 2014, 01:52:00 PM »

Quote from: $eñor $eagully on April 27, 2014, 01:19:11 PM

BUMP.

thanks

S.J · « **Reply #4 on:** May 03, 2014, 08:50:42 AM »

good thread, some tracks I haven't heard before

Hack Wilson - real · « **Reply #5 on:** May 03, 2014, 04:23:06 PM »

1992: Ah, the good ol’ days of the cop killer song. I remember browsing through the records on the wall at the Music Factory record store in Jamaica, Queens – the “Murderahh” b/w “Heartless” 12” single by Live Squad grabbed me by the neck: A simple white record jacket with a bullet on it. At the very least, it had to be aggressive and thus suitable for a kid who hated cops and lived vicariously through the hardest of alpha male rap. I’d read a review of it in The Source and it purportedly had all the fix-ins. I picked up the 12” – along with “One In The Chamba” by Almighty R.S.O., Live Squad’s Tommy Boy labelmate and the first home of the notorious Benzino – and was wide open for the full-length debuts of both groups after I got a taste. In particular, MCs Stretch and Majesty of the Live Squad painted some of the most disturbing imagery ever laid to wax that wasn’t on a Rap-A-Lot Records album. It was all there: Licking the blood of the man you just shot off your face when it sprayed, tossing babies out a window, stuffing a ticking time bomb in the mouth of your enemy with glee while fucking and then shooting his girlfriend in front of his face, and of course, killing cops with a smile, “King of New York style.” The violence could almost be considered cartoonish if the record didn’t come out during NYC’s most nefarious era of street crime – and that’s what made it so harrowing and vivid.

Unfortunately for Live Squad, Ice-T’s “Body Count” controversy further polarized “controversial” artists and labels funded with corporate bankrolls like Time Warner. The group brought pressure to Tommy Boy, as did Almighty R.S.O. and Paris. No big deal, though. Live Squad ran with a budding star in Tupac and made notable contributions to Pac’s Strictly 4 My Niggaz LP the following year. But then they dropped off the radar as a group, never again making headlines until Stretch was murdered at the end of 1995. Their shelved album from ‘92, Game of Survival (a soundtrack to their movie of the same name), remained lost until about a decade ago, when an elusive reissue came and went quicker than Freddie Foxx’s cameo as the bartender in Who’s The Man? The follow up single to “Murderahh,” “Game of Survival” b/w “Pump for a Livin’,” was promo only and was probably circulated solely due to the Tupac affiliation.

Recently, I decided to take a look back at the fate and the image of the group. The verdict? Like Harlem natives Mob Style, Live Squad just weren’t fuckin’ around – and it scared the shit out of everyone in ‘92 like it does 20 years later. And that included the labels that profited off sonic bloodbaths. Ironically, gangster imagery brought home the bacon for major labels for the next two years, but when you get into a giant brawl with Double XX Posse and garner a reputation for laying down the law with a menacing grin and no video directors or A&Rs are around, you can no longer be reduced to an innocuous, marketable gangsta recipe of lumberjack shirts, Carhartt jackets, locs, and black Timbs.

So now that entertainment alone trumps the validity of the artist’s claims and image, maybe it’s time for another appreciation post for a group that fell short of receiving due props because…(gulp)…they likely lived what they rapped about. I was about 75 percent of the way to claiming that nobody else had the Game of Survival album / soundtrack, but as I learned with the WNYU post, the old Wu-Tang video is probably one of three truly sacred things I own – Game of Survival popped up with an expired Sendspace link here and there. Nonetheless, here are some of the better cuts for your enjoyment.