Video of the Moment #1135: Egyptian Hip Hop

By Mary Chang on Sunday, 24th February 2013 at 2:00 pm

In Egyptian Hip Hop‘s latest video for ‘Tobago’, the Marple band plays homage to cult internet phenomenon Superstar & Star, otherwise known as Caribbean emigre Neville Lawrence, who the band have admitted was the primary influence when writing the song. The visuals are a little strange, but seriously, when has an Egyptian Hip Hop video not been anything less than unusual? (‘Yoro Diallo’, anyone?) Watch it below.

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