The duo formed in 1992 when Esoteric DJed a hip hop show at a college radio station north of Boston. 7L, a DJ and producer who listened to the show, contacted Esoteric in the interest of collaborating. The two found they shared a common love of the golden age of hip-hop and decided to form a group.

pronounced: Malik haL. It is a phrase used specially in Bahrain.

It means literally: there is no solution for you.

it is used to describe an amusement toward someone as a reaction for something he/she did that is considered as highly skillful, awkward or funny.

This usually means 7thLife or 7 up, 7 down. in the latter which has multiple meanings, one example is 7 sins, 7 virtues, meaning that life will take us through it all, or that they have undergone initiation into a gang, 1v7 and have came out on top. though this meaning was more prominent in the 90's. the 7thlife meaning also has multiple meanings, such as "on my 7thlife." A reference to something similar as "a cat has 9 lives." one other example of the meaning for 7L or 7thlife could reference that they've had to bury 7 friends or family due to either drugs, gang related activities, or suicide. due to the nature of the tattoo it could mean different things to different people. but if you see someone with this tattoo. my personal experience with this tattoo, if you see someone with it, would be to see what other tattoos they have. if they have more gang related tattoos. i would keep my distance.

7L or 7Life is similar to the antonym 4L “4life” or 5L which means “5life” 7L means bigger than life and even in the afterlife