ANTHONY "ANTLIVE" BATTLE
Antlive
The story of Ant Live, who was once a heavy hitter for Scream Team. This is a crew you may have not heard of, but if you were from the Southern Boulevard area of the Bronx, you would not only know who there were, you would also respect and analyze them. They were young vicious, flamboyant and getting a whole lot of money streets illegally money. Yes, Live started at a very young age with his crew called 25 to life, they were just kids. But their childhood experiences would later mold them into criminals unbeknownst to them because the fast life did not allow them to have an adolescent. Everyone knows the stories of the South Bronx in the 80s Crack was king, buildings were burning down every day, the Bronx is on fire. Having one sober parent at that time was a blessing. Live had his mother who migrated from Rocky Mountains, North Carolina, with puzzled thoughts of not quite being ready for anything the Bronx had in store for her, but she did her very best raising Anthony and his siblings. His father was a hustler and spent most of his time in the streets, leaving home early morning and return late hours of the night, so not much time was given live. If you were a kid during this error, you grew up tough and Ant was one of the toughest kids in forest projects growing up in the 80s. Dudes from the project saw he was a young fighter and quickly took a liking to him. His criminal activities started out as small-time robberies on the block resulting to his first armed robbery at age 12. He caught 2 grand larceny charges at the age of 13. A couple of the older dudes took it further and was making moves out of town but for Ant his come up would be later down the line. The 90’s were the culmination of these tough kids, growing up in these fucked-up environments, and then getting together creating their own destinies. Live moved from the projects to 181st St., the Hughes area and started rolling with the crew called FTS, which threw neighborhood parties, as a means of having fun and making money at the same time. They later became Uptown Assassins, which was a rap group /crew, with all the members heavily involved in the Street life. The name later was changed to SCREAMTEAM.