Sqad Up

Sqad Up
Origin	New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Genres	Hip hop
Years active	1999–2006
Labels	Money Yung'N
Associated acts	Lil Flip, Birdman, Juvenile, Mannie Fresh
Members	Lil Wayne Gudda Gudda Kidd Kidd T-Streets Young Yo Supa Blanco Raw Dizzy Fee Banks

Sqad Up was an American hip hop group from New Orleans, Louisiana. The group was originally consisted of rappers Lil Wayne, Gudda Gudda, Kidd Kidd, T-Streets, Raw Dizzy, Young Yo, Fee Banks, and Supa Branco. In 2004, Sqad Up released their debut album, Now or Never on their independent label, Money Yung'N Records. It is rumored that a Sqad Up reunion album is in the works.

In the late 90's, Lil Wayne met Young Yo in high school and became close friends. Young Yo and Lil Wayne's mutual interest in hip hop culture and fashion was obvious early on, "I was always fly and fresh when I was younger and that's how me and Wayne got jam tight. He was already rappin' but his shit wasn't really poppin... It was B.G.'s time then. When Juve[ile] came on board and they got the Cash Money and Universal deal Wayne had to go on the road and he asked me to go on tour with him", says Yo. Yo, realized the opportunity in front of him, so decided to call his brother Supa Blanco, who at the time was playing college ball in Arizona, and ask him to join them on the road.

Dino Delvaille, who at the time was the Universal Records A&R known with bringing the Cash Money Records situation to the table, began urging Yo and Branco to start rapping. When they returned off tour with, Yo, Branco, and Wayne decided to start Sqad Up with some of their close friends from New Orleans which were Nutt da Kidd, Gudda Gudda, T-Streets, Raw Dizzy, and Fee Banks. When Wayne was fifteen, he met Gudda at a dice game and said, "you should be rappin', you been through alot". Throughout 2002 and 2003, they released seven parts of the SQ series being one of the first groups to start doing mixtapes in New Orleans.

In 2004, Sqad Up decided to work on their debut album, but the CEO of Cash Money, Birdman, did not feel that they were yet. Because of that, they never signed to Cash Money and created their own label, Money Yung'N Records. Lil Wayne left the group and stayed with Birdman taking his advice. After that, Sqad Up started to have beef with B.G. and Lil Wayne. They released several diss tracks on their mixtapes and Lil Wayne and B.G. did the same thing. On June 22, 2004, Sqad Up released their debut album, Now or Never. In 2006, they met rapper Lil' Flip at The Source Awards and he said he was a fan of their music. They ended up releasing a couple of mixtapes on Lil Flip's independent record label, Clover G'z Records. That same year, Sqad Up went on a number of tours to support their sophomore album We Here Now, but it was never released and the group disbanded.

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