Saturday, 9 August 2008
Mystik Journeymen
Artist: Mystik Journeymen
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
The Black Sands ov Eternia
Year: 1999
Tracks: 23
Founders of the East Oakland underground collective Living Legends, PSC and BFAP formed as Mystik Journeymen in 1992. Southern Californian PSC drug-addicted up with BFAP in Oakland patch visiting a girlfriend, and by and by affected to get married the group (at the clock time, it included a few other rappers wHO later drifted out). The pair became local legends by 1994, throwing parties (Underground Surivivors) and marketing mixtapes. One year later, the Grouch began contributive and, after hit the road doing shows as far away as Europe, Mystik Journeymen formed the Living Legends work party with new recruits including 3 Melancholy Gypsys (aka Murs, Eligh, and Scarub), Moonrocks (aka Bicasso and Nebulus), Aesop, and Arata. The duo's label, LLCrew, had begun cathartic records by 1995, and Mystik Journeymen released a parade of LPs during the future few days, highlighted by 1995's 4001: The Stolen Legacy and 1996's Pressed 4 Time. (They'd also expanded their touring base to include the Far East and Australia.) By 1999, the work party had affected from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and with The Black Sands ov Eternia, began releasing records through and through Outhouse/Revenge. In 2002 Mystik Journeymen eventually released a coup d'oeil of their rightly praised concert designate with the LP Living Legends: Live, and their ninth album, Conjuring trick, followed tardy that year.