The Living Legends

The Living Legends, a loose collective of MCs and DJs in the Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area, LA, Japan, and European countries, are unique for both their down-to-earth songs and method of the music business. Pursuing in the footsteps of California performers like Too Brief who produced a name offering tapes from car trunks, the Legends also thought we would stay self-employed from record brands. They took the road hustling mentality even more with world trips, an in-depth site, tireless self-promotion, and an structured business strategy, which produced their slogan “Control Future” ring most evident. Living Legends offered as an motivation for additional Bay Region heavyweight crews like Hieroglyphics and Hobo Junction, who alongside hip-hoppers countrywide in the past due ’90s decided they might live off without main brands. Mystik Journeymen, a duo made up of BFAP (later on rechristened Sunspot Jonz) and PSC (later on Luckyiam), created in 1992 and became famous for his or her underground tapes and celebrations in East Oakland. The founding nucleus from the Living Legends, both fulfilled the Grouch in 1995 and immediately after embarked on the to begin a long group of self-funded trips abroad, this time around only to European countries. Upon their come back, they fulfilled up with a trio known as 3MG or Three Melancholy Gypsies (MURS, Eligh, and Scarub) who experienced broken faraway from their Los Angeles-based group VACATION CABIN and reunited in Oakland. The sextet officially created Living Legends in 1996 (alongside Aesop, Elusive, and Bizarro) and obtained nationwide renown with looks on 1997’s Beats and Lyrics compilation and 1998’s Guidelines of the overall game. Because the Internet and their site www.LLcrew.com developed, the Legends could actually reach an enormous new target audience worldwide. As their popularity grew, the Legends tirelessly went to European countries, Asia, and Australia, a complete of eight globe trips in 2 yrs. Their regular membership also grew to worldwide proportions once they connected up with Japan’s Arata and DJ Quietstorm and Belgium’s Krewcial. While house in California, they released a continuing blast of albums and tapes through their imprints Outhouse Information and Revenge Entertainment, created their own journal, Unsigned and Hella Broke, and place annual Broke Ass Summer season Jams. In 1999, Living Legends shifted their foundation of procedures to LA and added Basik as another member.