E-LEGAL
E-LEGAL
Los Angeles, CA
Latin / Hip Hop / Underground
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With Counscious Lyrics in songs like Humanidad Androide,Dedicated to the Struggle and Mundo Infeliz Just to Mention a Few, E-Legal Delivers not only good Hip Hop But a Message 'For those who have ears to hear'
E-Legal, born and raised in Guatemala, Land of the Quetzal, Mayan Empires and many Historical achievements also Darkened land by a civil war that lasted 36 years arrived in the United States in 1995 at the age of 16, since his native Guatemala music always Had a strong influence on him, in the middle of the eighties still being a little kid when Hip Hop from the Old School was in its heavy stages in the United States especially in N.Y. and L.A. E-Legal was already freestyling rhymes in the back of his school with two of his best friends. E-Legal sees Hip Hop not only as a form of art but also as a way of thinking, expression and freedom of speech
E-Legal, Was born and raised in Guatemala, Land of the Quetzal, Mayan Empires and many Historical achievements also Darkened land by a civil war that lasted 35 years arrived in the United States in 1995 at the age of 16, since his native Guatemala music always Had a strong influence on him, in the middle of the eighties still being a little kid when Hip Hop from the Old School was in its heavy stages in the United States especially in N.Y. and L.A. E-Legal was already freestyling rhymes in the back of his school with two of his best friends. Due to life circumstances and other reasons E-Legal stopped rhyming and writing songs right after he completed his elementary studies in that
school and moved to another one
Years went by and he kept growing up, after a wile he was more inclined with the listening crowd rather than the performing crowd, his favorite artist since a little kid wereGroups like Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Kid Frost and in the middle of the nineties before he got to the United States, the legendary
Years went by and he kept growing up, after a wile he was more inclined with the listening crowd rather than the performing crowd, his favorite artist since a little kid wereGroups like Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Kid Frost and in the middle of the nineties before he got to the United States, the legendary
Tupac Shakur Among others.
Far away from his country everything changed, exactly a year after arriving to the united states the call from his Family and His Native Land made him go back to Guatemala, he stayed there for seven months and then came back to the North part of the American Continent for the second time in 1997, to the place that he will meet with the art of rhyming and writing once again but not before going thru all kind of trials and tribulations.
When he came back to the united states the second time he started writing, mostly poems about different things that he saw or experience at that particular time of his life but it wasn’t until after a few years later when a friend at his work took him to his recording studio that he started rhyming
Far away from his country everything changed, exactly a year after arriving to the united states the call from his Family and His Native Land made him go back to Guatemala, he stayed there for seven months and then came back to the North part of the American Continent for the second time in 1997, to the place that he will meet with the art of rhyming and writing once again but not before going thru all kind of trials and tribulations.
When he came back to the united states the second time he started writing, mostly poems about different things that he saw or experience at that particular time of his life but it wasn’t until after a few years later when a friend at his work took him to his recording studio that he started rhyming
and writing songs once again.
After a few times of going to his friend's studio and recording with him an improvised song, E-Legal went on a mission of writing more songs, this time grown up and with a different mentality after seeing and finding out about many things that happen around us and affect our lives
E-Legal sees Hip Hop not only as a form of music but also as a way of thinking, expression and freedom of speech.
Currently E-Legal lives in the state of California were he is working in a music project with other Emcees of the Underground.
E-Legal sees Hip Hop not only as a form of music but also as a way of thinking, expression and freedom of speech.
Currently E-Legal lives in the state of California were he is working in a music project with other Emcees of the Underground.
E-LEGAL HAVE DONE SHOWS WITH
GZA (Wutang Clan)
DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill)
Defari (Los Angeles)
Immortal Technique (The Fillmore)
Strate Crooked (Guatemala)
Boca Floja (Mexico)
Akil Amar (Mexico)
Olmeca (Los Angeles)
E-LEGAL is also the President and Founder of Somos Hip Hop RaDiO (SHHR) wich is a collective of Rappers and media from the U.S and Latino America Pioneering the Revolutionary Hip Hop en Español Movement in the United States since 2003 (www.Somoshiphopcom)
BROWNPRIDE.COM
article about SHHR
In the 90's Latin Hip-Hop culture started to move beyond the underground of the Los Angeles area and blow up in such a way that no border would be able to hold it down. Ground breaking acts such as Mellow Man Ace, Kid Frost, Cypress Hill and Delinquent Habits played a major role of bridging the Hip-Hop world to the Spanish speaking one. The Spanish Hip-Hop movement started gaining lots of ground by piggy back riding on the Rock en Español momentum. Major Rock en Español tours like the “Watcha Tour”, which became the main U.S. Latin Rock festival in the late 1990s. By hitting over 18 cities across the United States and giving Mexican Hip-Hop acts like Control Machete the opportunity to perform live in front of major multinational audiences among the with participating rockero bands like Mexico City’s Molotov. Spanish Hip-Hop grew to new audiences that appreciated their
Mexican flavor of Hip-Hop music.
Now over ten years later Spanish Hip-Hop culture is still on the move and still
Now over ten years later Spanish Hip-Hop culture is still on the move and still
Fighting for its own place in the Latin entertainment world.Still to this day Spanish Rap music suffers from a lack of outlets and relying mainly on college radio stations and the Internet (BrownPride.com and myspace) to help spread the word of new artists and new CD releases. Slowing but surely that has been changing in the last few years. Television networks like Mun2 and MTV3 have helped create a new public awareness of the growing movement, yet it has been unable to keep up with the rapid growth of the world wide Spanish market.
The growing boom of high speed Internet access brought new life to the reality of being able to create new and alternative outlets to help promote new music thus in 2003 Somos Hip-Hop Radio was born. Somos Hip Hop Radio is a San Francisco Bay Area and L.A. and Latino America based Online Radio website which for the most part features Spanish Rap music from Latin America. The play list of the website is designed to promote underground Latino artists from Mexico, Central. South America and The U.S. where countries like El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, California and the East Coast have their own respective artists that need to be heard.
Just recently on April 18th, 2008 Somos Hip Hop Radio organized an event held in the heart of San Francisco, California. We had already planned on being in the Bay Area that weekend for Cypress Hill's 420 Smokeout show held at the Fillmore. So we decided to head out there a few days early and catch Somos Hip Hop Radio live in effect. The truth is that the Latino Hip-Hop On-line radio station still needs more support from the large Latino community in the Bay Area to help promote and grew the Spanish Rap movement. The event was still a great networking opportunity, even for some of the local artists who have not worked with each other before. The line up of the event included Rob West (Los Angeles, CA), Oogo (El Salvador), Genocidio (Guatemala),
Just recently on April 18th, 2008 Somos Hip Hop Radio organized an event held in the heart of San Francisco, California. We had already planned on being in the Bay Area that weekend for Cypress Hill's 420 Smokeout show held at the Fillmore. So we decided to head out there a few days early and catch Somos Hip Hop Radio live in effect. The truth is that the Latino Hip-Hop On-line radio station still needs more support from the large Latino community in the Bay Area to help promote and grew the Spanish Rap movement. The event was still a great networking opportunity, even for some of the local artists who have not worked with each other before. The line up of the event included Rob West (Los Angeles, CA), Oogo (El Salvador), Genocidio (Guatemala),
The Sickheadz (San Jose, CA), Trucho G (San Francisco),
E-Legal (Guatemala and the Bay Area)
and Mextape (from the 408) among others.
Overall Somos Hip Hop Radio (www.somoshiphop.com) is a much needed outlet for Latin American artists that get no love from the corporate owned airwaves in the states and a great way of creating visibility to the Spanish Hip-Hop movement in San Francisco and through out the greater Bay Area in Northern California.
Support Brown Hip-Hop in Your Area!
Words by Danny B and Photography by Sal Rojas
Support Brown Hip-Hop in Your Area!
Words by Danny B and Photography by Sal Rojas
With Counscious Lyrics in songs like Humanidad Androide,Dedicated to the Struggle and Mundo Infeliz Just to Mention a Few, E-Legal Delivers not only good Hip Hop But a Message 'For those who have ears to hear'.Conscious, Raw and even Esoteric.
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