how to record metronome, before recording kicks in?

If I'm using Ableton Live 9 Suite and I'm trying to record in a bunch of individual patterns from my sampler, how do I make sure that Ableton RECORDS (for instance 4) steady metronome clicks AND THEN the audio from the sampler?

I wanted like 4 clicks in the beginning of all my recordings, so that all my patterns would line back up correctly once they hit Ableton and I wouldn't have to go back and re-adjust the freaking start points, which is important to me, because I have a very certain swing going on in my tracks and I would not be able to re-adjust them, like they are inside the sampler.

I wanted my patterns to be multitrack recorded in for obvious reasons. FX and what not after recording.

And I know about metronome click ins, but what I'm after is the metronome being INCLUDED into the recordings, so that I could later on, just go back and mute them, but the audio part afterwards, would all be synced up properly with the original vibe and swing.

Not sure this will exaclty reply to your question, but this might help, as I don't really get what you try to achieve.
Maybe you could just record a clean dry sound like a clap, stick, whatever and make a sequence with only this sound hitting four times before your actual pattern kicks in.

Then in Ableton, this is how I do it all the time as I record from tape to ableton.
First thing is to make a Live project with the bpm matching your mpc.
On the MPC, make that first "reference metronome like" sequence start your song, then place your pattern(s). The longer your recording will be, the more precise. So you probly want to put more than just a 2 bar sequence between the "metronomes" Put that reference sequence again at the end of your song.
Record that song.
Now you will see that your patterns aren't exaclty aligned with Live's grid.
Remove the "Warp" option of each clip, and put the grid to "off"
Zoom to the very first click you made in your reference sequence. Mouse click just before the beginning of the sound, and create a mark from the create menu.
Now change the grid to what you want but not "off"
You can now trim/resize the clip exactly on the mark you just created. Make it for all the other clips.
Then just move everything to the very start of ableton (beat 1.1.1)
Now you have to "beatmatch" Live's BPM to your beat. So you now zoom to the very end of your song on the last click of your reference sequence. And you simply change Live's bpm to match it's grid to your last click. Just enter number like for exemple 91.14 until everything is lined-up.

Then you can cut all your clips using "cmd+E" on a mac.

Hope this helps

Just make your first pattern/sequence totally empty, for as much bars as you want.

Yes, I didn't mention that I do not use midi, so that's how I do it, just record audio and beatmatch.