Righteous Interview With The Protectors of spiritual Hip-Hop, The Lost Children Of Babylon (Eygpt) on thier new controversial album 911: The Ultimate Conspiracy, Ties to Sunz Of Man, Wu-Tang Clan, history with Jedi Mind Tricks, Hip-Hop, United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, Malachi Z. York and more…

The Lost Children Of Hip-Hop: The year was like early 1995 when a group of MC’s made numerous guest appearances on one of everybody’s all-time favorite album "The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological, and Electromagnetic Manipulation of Human Consciousness". This album was released by the now popular underground hip-hop duo hailing from Philadelphia known as Jedi Mind Tricks and they have had a massive cult following ever since, The theme on the Psycho-social album included government conspiracies and ancient Middle-Eastern mythology, and featured the recording debut of fellow Philly rappers El Eloh [Rasul Allahu] and Breath of Judah from the Lost Children of Babylon on multiple songs.

So who are the Lost Children Of Babylon? Lost can mean a person who is presumed to have wandered away and has become lost and unable to return to a known location. Babylon however has numerous meaning, Babylon could mean be the later name given to Babel which means Confusion. It was the capital city of Babylonia in Mesopotamia (in contemporary Iraq, about 70 mi/110 km south of Baghdad). The name is the Greek form of Babel, which is derived in turn from the Semitic form bab-Illu, meaning "The Gate of God". This Semitic word is a translation of the Sumerian Kadmirra. Without dwelling much on the meaning behind the group, LCOB started off as a three man group and has evolved from three to six to nine, this current roster can only be compared to that of one of the greatest groups of all time "the Deep Space 9" aka Wu-Tang Clan, which started off as All In together with The RZA, GZA/Genius and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard to include a full group of nine. The comparison to the clan doesn’t just lie with the similarity in conscious lyrics, sound or group numbers but it extends further to family ties and affiliations with Killah Priest, Sunz of man and Wu-tang Killa Beez.

The nine person movement consisting of Rasul Allahu, The Breath of Judah, Richard Raw, Cosmic Crusader, Ancient Kemite, Amun Sen Hotep Re, Atum Sen Geb the Eloheem, Stretch the Mad Scientist and Wazulu the Ill Dravidian, the group has gone on to release three albums independently to date, the first debut album Where Light Is Created: The Equidivium and followed it up with Words From The Duat: The Book of Anubis and their last controversial album The 911 Report: The Ultimate Conspiracy to raucous reception amongst Philly’s underground hip-hop elite. Immediately striking to many was the lyrical content: spiritually enlightened but also radically and socially aware, combining life experience, everyday events, right knowledge spread by Dr. Malachi Z. York, the master teacher of the Nuwaubians, and a variety of culturally infused theories about the creation and ultimate destiny of the human soul, LCOB brought something very unique, exciting and much needed to the hip-hop table, even with the message aside, LCOB also brings in good music.

High on demand on ebay, internet stores, street corners, barbershops, overseas in Europe, Asia, Japan and Jupiter, LCOB albums have sold out every time it had been released, as it was independently released until recently. Babygrande, also home to hip-hop elites such as Jedi Mind Tricks, Canibus, GZA/Genius, Dreddy Kruger, Army OF The Pharaohs and more has since recognized the talents of LCOB, but has recently joined forced with LCOB due to respect and appreciation of their skills and influence and popular market demand to re-release all 3 classic albums. As on the 21st of February, 2006, all three albums will be available to buy online, and in your local stores, It is a recommendation that everyone goes out and support the albums they made an album rife with quotes from The Matrix and rhymes about ancient Egypt, outer space and chromosomes, all laid over futuristic/sci-fi beats that seem transplanted from other worlds. It’s really much more than a musical creation; it represents a new, somewhat complicated teaching called Nuwaubu (new-ah-boo). “You can dance to our music,” Rasul Allah explains of the group’s aim, “but it’s strictly to stimulate certain latent forces inside your chromosomes.” going on to say "When I came into contact with another form of knowledge and enhanced my consciousness, I wanted to start spreading that as a form of message, through sound and words and music." Of the mix of spirituality and hip-hop, Kemite claims, "It’s the new evolution of hip-hop.

Wu-International had the privilege of talking to Richard Raw and Rasul Allah Of LCOB about past catalogue and the new album, The United Nuwaubian Nation Of Moors, Wu-Tang Clan, Spiritualism, United Nuwaubian Nation Of Moors, Politricks, ties with Killah Priest and Sunz Of Man, history between them and Jedi Mind Tricks, and more, log on to www.wu-international.com to read the full interview or click on the link below to
http://www.wu-international.com/misc_albums/Interviews/LCOB%20Interview.htm

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