Always wanting to be the first at everything, you have to know, Knowa!!! Knowalazarus, straight from Queens New York, is of Asian descent and speaks fluent spanish, you can find him resting in the Richmond Hill section of Q-York. Q-York also being the name of his company, while managed by another neighborhood fam member, Fredidats.

Knowa got bitten by that infamous bug, at 16 yrs old, he was a proficient poetry writer, which followed hand in hand by wanting to impress the females, as he says "The motivation to do alot of things in this world is the women, because women have that power, women can wave a hand make a man cry." He also admitted, "See back then I had a big mouth. See I flapped to some friends that I can rap, so they took me to this local club which hosted an open mic session, told me to get on stage. I freestyled something can't remember now. Once I was finished the crowd was chanting something, saying 'look at this dude, Bruce Lee on the mic.'"

Knowa has experience in this game, he saw two unsuccessful stints within a group situation, when he carried the name "Knowa-the-Unknown" but did not let that be his demise. Put in his words, "We are here now, basically just through the things I've been through, realizing I can stand alone as an artist, hence forth being known as Knowalazarus, kinda representing my rebirth."

Rhythm: If you were to reep the benefits and experience, at the close of business, what would that be?

Knowa: I just want people to be like, he was one of the best!! That's it (he and his people came with their own, style). And you know... they did, they did what they had to do! Bent the rules a little, did it the way they wanted to do it. Basically to be mentioned, be remembered, like to show an example, like yo!! if you put your mind to it, you can achieve it. Because there are alot of people even at this point, you know...that I knew before, that didn't believe in me when I started like "laughing, Yeah go ahead do you." And now when you see those people they are like, "When is your album dropping, Oh yo, yo! I heard that joint you had, it's hot."

Nonetheless Knowalazarus has evolved as an artist from those days, now at twenty-two years old, he has already completed and promoted his first EP, precisely titled "The Conception" which has garnered enough support from the foundation members, he calls Q-York Senate. Along with some noteable industry collaborations, Ron Artez (Chicago Bulls forward), Nature, QB's finest also doing shows with Bars 'N' Hooks. He wants to enter the game whether, he or another Q-York Senate member enters first, he knows that's how everyone's going to live well. He emphasizes, "I do it...for the money, only saying what money represents in this world, not because I have a piece of green paper. I do it, because in this world, you can be the smartest man on this earth, but if you have no money! especially in this society they don't care about what you have to say, but if I were Bill Gates, everyone will be listening." Continued on page 2 »