Randy Walker (August 21, 1968 – November 30, 1995), better known by his stage name Stretch, was an American rapper and record producer, working in Live Squad.

[1] Randy Walker was born in 1968 in Springfield Gardens, Queens, to an African American father and Jamaican, immigrant mother.

In 1988, both rapping and producing it, Live Squad debut with an EP, titled BQ In Full Effect, which, featuring Percee P, includes the tracks "Troopin It" and "We Ain't Havin' It."

Live Squad also released an ultra-violent promo short film, Game Of Survival, on VHS tape, showcasing six songs from through group's forthcoming album.

In June, national outrage broke out over the Los Angeles area's original gangsta rapper Ice-T's side project, his rock band Body Count's album of heavy metal with its track "Cop Killer."

Tommy Boy, favoring radio friendliness, dropped Live Squad and shelved the album.

While Tupac filmed his breakthrough role in Juice, Stretch and Treach, of rap group Naughty By Nature, were extras.

[6] In March 1994, on The Arsenio Hall Show, 2Pac and Stretch performed "Pain," a track on the Above the Rim soundtrack's only cassette version and merely a single's B side, but swiftly a rap favorite.

Amid controversy over lyrics, the label cut "Out on Bail", which Tupac and Stretch performed at The '94 Source Awards, anyway, and "Runnin' from tha Police", featuring Biggie Smalls.

The alliance was severed through events on the night of November 30, 1994, at the Times Square building of Quad Recording Studios.

In late 1994, Tupac was reportedly hired by fledgling music manager James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond to record a verse for rapper Lil' Shawn's single "Dom Perignon."

Arriving with Stretch and two others, they reportedly found rapper Lil' Cease—a member of the Bad Boy record label's circle via Biggie's side group Junior M.A.F.I.A.—watching the sidewalk from above and greeting them.

[12][13] Blaming Henchman and Haitian Jack for the setup, Tupac accused Biggie of withholding prior knowledge.

In a jailhouse interview published in April, Tupac discusses the November shooting and Stretch, incidentally 6'8":[2] "I was, like, 'What should I do?'

[15][9]Bill Courtney, retired New York Police Department officer, once with its infamous "Hip-Hop Squad," suggested that the stickup answered Tupac's comments, published in New York's Daily News,[17] about Jimmy Henchman's associate Haitian Jack, big in the Queens nightlife scene and criminal underworld.

[9][18] By then, Haitian Jack had taken a misdemeanor plea deal for no jail time, and the newspaper published Tupac's gripe.

"[9][18] On October 12, 1995, with bond posted via Suge Knight, former CEO of Death Row Records, and pending appeal, Tupac was released from prison in upstate New York.

Two tracks, in particular—"Ambitionz Az a Ridah" as well as "Holla At Me"—have lyrics that some people believe, though not proven, to be against Stretch, one envisioning his death.

Released a few months later, in July 1996, the sophomore album, It Was Written, by rapper Nas, from Queensbridge in Queens, had Live Squad production on two tracks, "Take It In Blood" as well as "Silent Murder," from Stretch's final recording session exactly one year after the November 30, 1994, shooting of Tupac.

[20] On November 30, 1995, Stretch was on his way to a Biggie Smalls event after leaving the Nas recording session at midnight.

Two or three men in a black car pulled up beside Stretch's green minivan, and gave chase, firing from a rolled down window.

[26][27] After Tupac's death in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, in September 1996, a Live Squad production, the track "Nothing to Lose," appeared on the first posthumous 2Pac album, released in 1997, R U Still Down?

Released in 1997, Greatest Hits has the cryptic "God Bless the Dead," dedicated to "Biggy Smallz," but not the famed Live Squad and onetime 2Pac associate Biggie Smalls who is otherwise called The Notorious B.I.G., and instead a Latino rapper who worked with one of 2Pac's main producers, Johnny J.

Stretch's brother Majesty founded Grand Imperial Records jointly with rapper E-MoneyBags.

[30][31] In 2001, Majesty released the Live Squad album that Tommy Boy Records had nixed, Game Of Survival.