Terror Squad (record label)

Terror Squad Entertainment
Parent company	Warner
Founded	1993
Founder	Fat Joe
Status	Active
Distributor(s)	Atlantic, Loud, Big Beat
Genre	Hip hop
Country of origin	United States
Location	The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States of America

Terror Squad is a Hip Hop record label founded by Fat Joe in The Bronx (New York). The label had been distributed by Atlantic Records, EMI, and Imperial Records—and now E1 Music (formerly Koch Records).

Fat Joe decided to form Terror Squad after he began to associate himself with Big Pun, which was around 1995. Early on, Fat Joe used the label for mixtape releases until he struck up a distribution deal with Relativity 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 1995, he signed Big Pun, Cuban Link and Triple Seis to the label. In 1995, Terror Squad would release Fat Joe's 2nd 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 in Relativity with sales, Fat Joe would move the label to Atlantic. In 1998, Terror Squad debuted as a group on the track "The Hidden Hand" from Fat Joe's album Don Cartagena. In 1998, Big Pun's debut album Capital Punishment was released through Loud, and Fat Joe released Don Cartagena, which debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200 chart. Both albums received commercial and critical success. While Big Pun went Platinum with his debut, Fat Joe went Gold with "Don Cartagena". In 1999, Terror Squad released its debut album The Album. The album was not successful but made a legit name for the group and the label. On February 7, 2000, in Crowne Plaza in White Planes, New York, Big Pun died of a heart attack, and his album Yeeeah Baby was released posthumously that year on April 4.

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