Live Life Live Long Entertainment
Live Life Live Long Ent. is an independent record label based in Southeast Queens. We currently have 3 artists signed (Paul David, Branson & T. Hooks) and are looking for more acts from our hometown, Rosedale, NY.
We've got a lot coming out, probably for the summer. The main projects are me and Branson's EPs, and what the streets really need, The Civic Mixtape. We work and go to school and all so it's been tough but we're laying tracks down one by one. Me and Branson produce and spit, and I do the engineering. T. Hooks spits along w/some other people from the block we're teaching and getting comfortable in the studio. It's beautiful watching the team grow from day to day.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Me(Paul David) and Branson met around '98 from some mutual friends we were all running around with. We clicked as far as our sense of humor and tastes in cars and music went, and I was already rhyming from like '96. I was working with a crew at the time that disbanded (free Ricky, I'll see you when you come home), and worked on my own for a while. Then in '03 Branson got serious and started spitting and producing, so we just put two and two together and here we are.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Nope, not yet. We gotta get the streets buzzing with the Civic mixtape.
Your musical influences
The greats. Everybody. We listen to a lot of music. I'm doing a freestyle over a beat by a band called the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. We keep our ears open for samples and all that.
What equipment do you use?
Fruity Loops and Cool Edit Pro. We're investing right now.
Anything else?
Shoutouts to Rico Law, Sean aka Swift, Little Chris aka Chaos Theory, Noel, Junior, Kym, Missy, Liz+Naima and everyone in Southside, the whole block and all our business partners. My girl, I'll leave it at that. 2005, Live Life Live Long, I love my life. It's the #1 African in the Tri-State area, salute me. Highways.
