- Full a Clips Crew
Full a Clips Crew are a
Bronx ,New York Hip Hop Crew.Sometime during the '80s,
Big Pun who was going by the name Big Moon Dawg andTriple Seis , began to write rap lyrics, forming Full a Clips Crew, later with Prospect andCuban Link who was at the time named "Lyrical Assassin" became well know underground hip hop crew in South Bronx. Rios (Big Pun) met fellow Puerto Rican and Bronx rapperFat Joe in1995 and made his commercial debut on Joe's second album,Jealous One's Envy (J.O.E.), in addition to appearing on a b-side to Joe's "Envy" single, "Fire Water." "I'm Not a Player " (featuring an O'Jays sample) was supported by a significant advertising campaign and became an underground hit. The song's remix, "Still Not a Player " (featuring Joe), became Big Pun's first major mainstream hit. That same year Full-A-Clips became part ofTerror Squad ,Triple Seis left the group after Big Pun's death in2000 , as for CLK "Flowers for the Dead", Cubans premier solo single and tribute to his immense partner, couldn't begin to relate the loss. Without Pun to mediate, Cuban began butting heads with Joe over managerial decisions and his Atlantic Records debut, 24K, was shelved, pushing Cuban to drop from T.sTrivia
* A new Full a Clips Crew" is in the making with CLK, Triple Seis and
Remy Ma
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