Living Legends

Posted on 02.24.2004

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Living Legends
Crew Members :
Murs, The Grouch, Eligh, Luckyiam,
Scarub, Bicasso, Sunspot Jonz,
Aesop the Black Wolf, Arata.

--- The Living Legends Biography :

The Living Legends crew is a family of independent hip-hop creators bringing their own raw, unique sound and an unfiltered glimpse into their daily lives. It is this personal connection with the audience that has made their loyal fan base extend around the world and it is their talent as emcees and producers that has garnered them the respect of their peers.

It all started with BFAP (now known as Sunspot Jonz) and PSC (Luckyiam), who laid claim to the name of Mystik Journeymen in the early 1990’s. By ’94 they were locally legendary for throwing Underground Survivors shows, houseparty style at their loft - 4001 San Leandro Street in East Oakland. That’s where the Grouch hooked up with the Journeymen in 1995, just before they took off on their renowned first European tour.

Around the same time in the southern part of the state, Mid-city Los Angeles to be exact, 3 Melancholy Gypsys (Murs, Scarub & Eligh) were part of the almost mythic Log Cabin crew going back to 1993. Log Cabin later broke up and the Gypsys wandered separately. As it turned out, the 3 would cross paths again in the Bay Area and became Living Legends.

Aesop came to Oakland from Fresno, Arata from Osaka, and Bicasso from various points, East, West and elsewhere...

In 1999 the Legends shifted their center of gravity to Los Angeles, but their presence has definitely not diminished in Oakland and the Bay. You know it makes no difference where they stay because the universe revolves around them anyway. Over the years, the Journeymen and the Legends have rocked Europe, Japan, Australia and Canada numerous times, plus they’ve toured the USA, north and south, east coast, west coast and beyond ...

In the years since the Legends have continued releasing solo and crew projects and now have a catalog of over 50 full-length albums and numerous singles. All in all, this crew of motivated do-it-yourselfers has sold over 200,000 albums collectively. The latest crew album “Creative Differences” has turned in to their best selling album to date, (with Soundscan numbers at 25,000 so far) and continues to sell. More recently, we’ve seen new albums from CMA (Grouch & Luckyiam), Scarub, and Sunspot Jonz. Spring 2005 will see the release of the Legends highly anticipated new album “Classic”. For this project, the crew went to Maui, Hawaii, to record and the inspiration fueled the group to record their strongest material yet. Expect to see them next spring coming to a city near you on tour promoting the new project. The group has no plans to let up, they’re only turning up the fire, see if you can keep up. Legends Baby !!!!

--- The Living Legends Discography :

Living Legends Albums

Living Legends Classic (2005)	Living Legends Creative Differences (2004)

Living Legends *Crappy Old Sht (2003)**	Living Legends Almost Famous (2001)
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Living Legends, by datrealchik [2008-09-25 18:20:38]

Wow...Murs has come a long way ! He’s major now...check out his album today until monday on his myspace page !

Living Legends, by filthyphil [2008-09-25 15:56:45]

I heard you can preview the whole album on monday from his myspace page. Looking forward to that

www.myspace.com/murs

Living Legends, by hexigon [2008-09-25 15:54:48]

Yo monday is the Murs Myspace listening party... Their puting the full album up on the Murs page for listening. but ill be in boulder at the live show....SUCKERS !!!! myspace.com/murs