Founders of the East Oakland underground collective Living Legends, Luckyiam and Sunspot Jonz formed as Mystik Journeymen in 1992. Southern Californian Luckyiam hooked up with Sunspot Jonz in Oakland while visiting a girlfriend, and later moved to join the group (at the time, it included a few other rappers who later drifted away). The pair became local legends by 1994, throwing parties (Underground Survivors) and selling mixtapes. One year later, the Grouch began contributing and, after hitting the road doing shows as far away as Europe, Mystik Journeymen formed the Living Legends crew with new recruits including 3 Melancholy Gypsys (aka Murs, Eligh, and Scarub), Moonrocks (aka Bicasso and Nebulus), Aesop, and Arata. The duo's label, LLCrew, had begun releasing records by 1995, and Mystik Journeymen released a parade of LPs during the next few years, highlighted by 1995's 4001: The Stolen Legacy and 1996's Pressed 4 Time. (They'd also expanded their touring base to include the Far East and Australia.) In 1997, they dropped Worldwide Underground. By 1999, the crew had moved from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and with The Black Sands ov Eternia. In 2002, Mystik Journeymen finally released a glimpse of their justly praised concert show with the LP Living Legends: Live, and their ninth album, Magic, followed later that year.