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Terror SquadLean BackTake Me Home
In 1998, the members of Terror Squad debuted as a group on Fat Joe's album Don Cartagena. Terror Squad, in its debut album The Album, consisted of rappers Fat Joe, Big Pun, Cuban Link, Prospect, Armageddon, and Triple Seis.[2] As the group was on hiatus following Pun's death, most of its former members fell into obscurity, with Fat Joe having the most successful solo career among all the former members.[1] The group reunited and released their second album, True Story, in 2004. It included the summer club hit "Lean Back," produced by Scott Storch, which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and 24 in the UK. A remix to "Lean Back" featured Lil Jon, Mase and Eminem was released on Fat Joe's 2005 album All or Nothing. Although the album failed to spawn other hit singles, Fat Joe and Remy, who contributed the vocals to "Lean Back," went on to release high-selling solo albums in 2006.[1] Fat Joe commented in a 2006 interview that Armageddon and Prospect had become lazy.[3] But Armageddon has reunited with the group after having Fat Joe featured on the remix to Armageddon's song "It's Over", which also featured N.O.R.E.. Terror Squad signed to Koch Records in 2007.[4]
Apart from the three new members, DJ Khaled and Cool & Dre are retained as regular crew along with Tony Sunshine.[3][5] * Released: September 21, 1999 22 4 * Released: July 27, 2004 7 1 Fat Joe decided to form Terror Squad Entertainment after he began to associate himself with Big Pun, which was around 1992. Early on, Fat Joe used the label for mixtape releases until he struck up a distribution deal with Relativity Records in 1993. The deal with Relativity led to the release of Fat Joe's debut album Represent in 1993. The label got plenty of exposure in New York with the release of Joe's hit single "Flow Joe". In 1994, he signed Big Pun, Prospect, and Cuban Link to the label. In 1995, Terror Squad would release Fat Joe's second album Jealous One's Envy. Soon after Fat Joe would begin his search for a new distributing label. After seeing the success of the Terror Squad label and Fat Joe being disappointed with the album sales at Relativity, Fat Joe would move the label into the Atlantic Records umbrella. In 1998, Terror Squad debuted as a group on the track "The Hidden Hand" from Fat Joe's album Don Cartagena.[1] In 1998, Big Pun's debut album Capital Punishment was released through Loud Records, and Fat Joe released Don Cartagena, which debuted at number 7 on the Billboard 200 chart. In 1999, Terror Squad released its debut album The Album. The album was somewhat successful and made a legit name for the group and the label. In 2000, Big Pun died, and his album Yeeeah Baby was released posthumously that year. Fat Joe released two more albums, Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E.) in 2001 featuring the hit single "We Thuggin'" with R. Kelly. In 2002, Fat Joe released the modestly performing Loyalty. In 2004, Terror Squad released its second album True Story. The album went Platinum making it tied for the highest-selling album in the label's history, in addition, the song "Lean Back" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2005, Fat Joe released All or Nothing.[2] In September 2006, Fat Joe finalized a distribution
deal for Terror Squad Entertainment through Imperial Records and
EMI.[3] "Make It Rain" featuring Lil Wayne was the debut single for Fat Joe's debut with TSE Me Myself & I. The label also released the debut album from DJ Khaled & PRO's Super Produced Listennn... the Album that year on Koch Records. The label
followed the success of these two albums into 2007, which led to
the second album from DJ Khaled We The Best which featured the
hit single "We Takin' Over", which had guest appearances from Akon, T.I., Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Baby, and
Lil Wayne. 1993 * Represent 1995 * Jealous One's Envy 1998 * Don Cartagena Big Pun * Capital Punishment 1999 * The Album 2000 * Yeeeah Baby 2001 * Jealous Ones Still Envy 2002 * Loyalty 2004 * True Story 2005 * All or Nothing 2006 * Me, Myself & I DJ Khaled * Listennn...the Album Remy Ma * There's Something About Remy: Based on a True Story 2007 * We The Best 2008 * The Elephant in the Room DJ Khaled * We Global 2009 * Jealous Ones Still Envy 2010 * The Darkside Vol. 1 DJ Khaled * Victory [edit] Up Coming Release DJ Khaled * We The Best Forever Fat Joe * The Darkside Vol.2 [edit] Artists * Fat Joe [edit] DJs/producers * Cool & Dre [edit] Former artists * Big Pun (Deceased)
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