Little Egypt is one of the hottest groups rising out of Brooklyn, USA. With a potent combination of unique beats and battle-tested rhymes, this team is poised to lead Hip Hop in the future. Little Egypt raises the consciousness of its listeners and still manages to produce the head nods essential for success.

The beats are not like the typical mainstream beats. They make your head bop but allow you to slip into a meditation type state. I see myself playing the album on Flatbush Ave, in mid June, but at the same time find time reflecting on the concepts talked about in songs like ‘One Mind’. The chorus echoes “One Mind, one sign, one place, one time. The blessed on a quest for divine. One Mind, one kind. The heart and soul of the rhyme. Make the whole world shine.”

If you're a real underground Hip-Hop head and you don't know who Little Egypt is - you better get off of them sleeping pills instantaneously. Little Egypt is probably the most energized Brooklyn (NYC) click you'll ever see rocking a stage. Their presence is reminiscent of that early Smiff and Wess, but that's a serious understatement. Little Egypt is: Visual Poetics, Taajwar, Forge, Bravestar, Khordz and a gang of affiliates. Here's an excerpt of a freestyle interview with the Little Egypt fam. Don't forget to pick up their full length record entitled "Straight Out the Sands" which is in stores now. (www.littleegypt-ny.com).

Who is Little Egypt?
VISUAL: In its most basic sense, the name Little Egypt represents Brooklyn, USA (a.k.a. the Planet). To expand on that, Little Egypt marks a return to traditional storytelling and artistic creativity in order to preserve our culture as well as benefit the community.

TAAJWAR: In the group, we have Visual Poetics, Forge, Bravestar, Khordz and me, Taajwar. Sometimes referred to as the L.E. Apostles, each of us has a different outlook on Hip-Hop, the world, and life in general.

You know how everyone has their own definition of hip hop - what's
yours?

FORGE: Hip-Hop is a movement. Hip-Hop started off as a form of communication. It's a way that you could talk to other people from other neighborhoods, from other communities, spread the message, spread what was happening in your area and spread what other cats needed to be thinking about. Hip-Hop is like a radio wave that's going directly into cats ear.

VISUAL: To me Hip-Hop is freedom to go against the mainstream, the freedom to express yourself. When it first started nobody wanted to check for it except for the cats that was in that one little circle rhyming, and that was cool with those twenty people that was like "yo I’m feeling this." Taking it a step further, hip hop is emotion, it's fear, it's hate, it's love, it's the black experience, now it's the Polish, Mexican, Canadian experience - whatever. To me that's what Hip-Hop is - it's emotion. It's whatever you're feeling at the
time. It's freestyling and that's emotion. You’re standing on a corner staring down cops - that's emotion. It's whatever you're feeling at that moment and it's whatever way you find to express that - that's hip hop.

The term underground, what associations does it spark within you?

TAAJWAR: The underground is like ether, it's pure, it's what everything sprouts from.



The mainstream seems to be the new hot topic in the Hip Hop community; what's your take on the cats using false personas to get to the top?

TAAJWAR: With Hip-Hop it's like people will twist it to get to the top, they're not righteous anymore because they're trying to get money off of the art form. If it's not coming from the heart, it's not going to be pure and the people in the underground are going to know that.

VISUAL: I think that a lot of the big name cats don't respect the power that they have over the next generations and just people in general, cuz there's a lot of airheads, even in our generation, that follow what these cats are saying to the letter and that's crazy. For you to have so much power and not respect that power yourself, that's going to lessen my amount of respect for you in the game.

FORGE: You got cats that automatically get shine, automatically get radio play cuz they might have a nice sounding voice, but who's plugging them with the rhymes, who's telling them how their lyrics supposed to be? You got cats that automatically come out and it's like: "who do you want to be, a DMX, a Jay-Z or a Nas? Who do you want to sound like?" Be original and be true to self. You’ll last longer.

What's the mission for the Little Egypt clan?

FORGE: The goal for Little E is the total transformation of Hip-Hop. To come to this nation, come to this industry with newness, originality and nothing but the butters. Right now the industry has no leaders so we're coming to point cats in the right direction. We're gonna be the map for the Hip-Hop industry. I figure it's our goal to hit cats with the beats so you get them nodding in the clubs while you're hitting them with the lyrics so it's sinking into their heads. I want to talk to the younger generation and lead them in the right direction.

What’s next for y’all?

BRAVESTAR: We’ve been all over, from Mexico to Brazil to Poland to Canada. In the summer, we’re supposed to be headed to Australia and back out to Europe. I want to link up with a team that can make it easier to reach the people we want to reach. I want to hear us in the states and I want to sit down and talk with people hear and build this thing. It’s coming…just wait.

Contact info:
Nic Steele
PMB 140
655 Fulton St.
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(718) 797-0752
MailForge@aol.com

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See now this is GOOD spam! (pardon the spam reference) You want to promote your band, this is an AWESOME way to do it! Kudos to LE, I will scope your tracks now.

Nice, peeped this group out a while ago and it's nice to see cats in the underground like this come out to spit what they know which is the essence of hip-hop. Keep spreadin the knowledge.