I had a look at the latest edition of Wax Poetics and saw there was a feature on Egyptian Lover and Arabian Prince? I know about EL and have some of his music but who is Arabian Prince? I wish I would have bought a copy of the magazine to read up on him. Looks interesting.

I've only heard one song by Arabian Prince on the radio one time and one time only. I barely remember it at all but I do remember it was a jam that sounded similar to the type of stuff that Egyptian Lover made.

Arabian Prince was an original member of NWA before they became "gangsta rap"

here's his wikipedia bio:
Arabian Prince is the stage name of Mik Lezan (born June 17, 1965 in Compton, California), a rapper and hip hop producer, best known for being an original member of the rap group, N.W.A.

Born and raised in Compton, California and later moved to Inglewood, Arabian Prince released Electro Singles on Macola Records, but when he left to join NWA Macola bootlegged his singles into the Album Situation Hot. In the following year, Arabian Prince joined up with the first gangsta rap group N.W.A. three years after graduating Serra High School in Gardena, CA.

He started working with Bobby Jimmy & the Critters in 1984. He also produced the hit single and album for JJ Fad, Supersonic.

He was a founding member of N.W.A. but when fellow member Ice Cube came back from Arizona University in 1988 he found himself to be surplus to the band, Eazy-E, Ice Cube and MC Ren were the main performers in band, DJ Yella was the turntablist and Dr. Dre was the main producer.

After leaving N.W.A., Arabian Prince continued a solo career. His second album Brother Arab was released in 1989, although it sold poorly.

Arabian Prince continued a solo career again and he released his third album Where's My Bytches in 1993, which was his last album.

He recently started releasing music again with his Professor X project on the Dutch label Clone records. In 2007, he performed as a DJ on the 2K Sports Holiday Bounce Tour with artists from the Stones Throw label. In 2008, Stones Throw will release a compilation of his electro-rap material from the 1980s.[1]



He was the producer of NWA's "Something 2 Dance 2"

bboy87 said:

thanks for the info! if his music sounds anything like egyptian lover then i realy need to check him out. love me some 80's electro! just wondering was he influenced by prince too hence his name?

dancerella said:

Have you heard JJ Fad's "Supersonic"? That was produced by Arabian Prince

here's a song of his called "Situation Hot"


Take You Home, Girl

bboy87 said:

wow sounds very much like Egyptian Lover. Cool gonna download his music today!

I made a thread about the anthology that came out.
http://prince.org/msg/8/279931

I don't know if he is, but Egyptian Lover definately is. If you listen to some of his songs very closely, you can hear just a small snip of "Head", "Let's Work", and "Lady Cab Driver" mixed in. They are such small razor fine snips that only a Prince fan would recognized them. They all, of course, are mixed over his own original music. That's a perfect example of sampling being an art form rather than people from the 1990s and today who make the sample the entire foundation of the song because they have no talent to come up with a melody or rhythm of their own or to play any instruments to achieve it. Egyptain Lover was definately a bad motherfucker. When it comes to rappers, I place him on top because he's actually got talent.

vainandy said:

I never heard him rap I dont think.

I bumped this thread because I am starting to feel him. I read some things about him in Vibe and XXL mag.

I saw his album recently. I'm gonna pick it up soon

You should get this one to start you off.....



1 Sexy Style - (Greatest Hits Dub mix)
2 My House On The Nile - (Greatest Hits mix)
3 Freak-A-Holic - (12" Dub mix)
4 You're So Fine - (Greatest Hits Edit)
5 Egypt Egypt - (12" Original mix)
6 Alezby Inn Remodeled, The - (Remodeled Vocal Version)
7 Lover, The - (12" Long mix)
8 Girls - (Dub mix)

It's a "Best Of" collection but all of those are 12 Inch versions, most of which are extremely rare. So rare, in fact, that I didn't know that some of them existed.

If you like "Old Prince" from 1978-1984, check out "Alezby Inn" and "Freak-A-Holic" which sounds exactly like something Prince would have made from the "1999" and "Purple Rain" eras. Egyptian Lover was definately a Prince fan. And a lot of his stuff sounds like it came from futuristic Egypt. You can almost picture it in your mind while you are listening to a lot of his music.