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Def Squad Talks About Getting Together

The New York hip-hop collective known as Def Squad hit stores this week with its debut album, "El Nino," and its suped-up remake of the old school rap nugget, "Rapper's Delight," originally recorded by the Sugar Hill Gang.

That track helped Def Squad generate considerable advance buzz for the album, and things don't appear to be getting any quieter with the release of its latest single and video, [article id="1442621"]"Full Cooperation [440k QuickTime][/article]," and a slot on the Survival of the Illest tour.

Considering the success that Redman, Eric Sermon, and Keith Murray have found together as Def Squad, it may be surprising to hear the nonchalant approach these rappers took to getting together in the first place.

[article id="1442623"]"We've always been together, we just haven't done an album together,"[/article] Keith Murray told MTV News of the group's origin. [article id="1442623"]"Before any one of our albums dropped,

we knew each other [600k QuickTime][/article]. We was living, we was growing. We did various combination songs on each other's albums, from dating back to '91 or '92. 'Rapper's Delight' really cemented us as a group. That gave us the confidence to do the album.

Def Squad is currently flaunting that confidence on the Survival of the Illest tour, which also features DMX and Onyx. That tour hits Washington, D.C. on Wednesday and Charlton, West Virginia on Thursday.

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