S.A.S. are a London-based hip hop duo, who came to the mainstream attention after they performed a freestyle rap on New York City radio station Hot 97 in 2001, the freestyle later featured on their mixtape Coming To America.
S.A.S. are affiliated with New York-based group, The Diplomats. They are commonly referred to as S.A.S. or Eurogang—Eurogang refers to a group they formed in the U.K..
They were officially welcomed into The Diplomats in 2003 and later that year they met Damon Dash in London, Dash impressed by the duo heavily courted them as his new signings to Roc-A-Fella Records and started the process of signing them to the label inconjunction with The Diplomats, in that period they featured in Rocawear modelling campaigns and acted in Dash's State Property 2 film. However, due to the sale of Roc-A-Fella Records in 2004, and Dash's non-involvement in the label thereafter, the deal never materialized.
During the summer of 2004 the duo ran into some legal issues in the United States which meant they had to return home to the United Kingdom and incurred a two-year absence from the US until late 2006.
In the time away from the US, they re-established their Eurogang group. During 2005 in came new members—Villain and Bigz, both rappers—and only rapper Haze, producer Rephan and S.A.S. themselves remained from the old line-up. Producer Rephan produces the majority of songs for both Eurogang and S.A.S. and runs their production company, Fedayeen.
They also established the European based imprint of The Diplomats called Dipset Europe. The label was founded, financed, managed and marketed by S.A.S. themselves and in less than two years they established Dipset as the number 1 crew within the streets of Europe.
The debut release from the imprint was Streets All Salute, which was a mixtape-album, which later came with a bonus DVD. The release was intended as the prequel to their first official worldwide release and featured Juelz Santana, Cam'ron, Nicole Wray, Baby Blue and Sewuese. The video for the first single, "Cheerio," featured a cameo from Kanye West, who had previously tried to sign S.A.S. in 2002.
In late 2006 their legal issues were overturned and they returned to the U.S. The duo have been seen with Jim Jones at his Emotionless video shoot, with Juelz Santana on the popular The Come Up DVD, and seen in pictures with the late Stack Bundles and Juelz Santana on their MySpace.
In 2007, S.A.S announced that they were breaking away from the Dipset building in search of greener pastures. After numerous years, broken promises, and no recording deal or anything obtained or forthcoming by the Diplomats or Diplomat Records for S.A.S, the duo felt they had no real choice but to leave.
