The Lost Children of Babylon (
LCOB) are a
spiritual alternative hip hop/
rap music group based out of
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. The group was founded by Rasul Allah and The Breath Of Judah in the mid 1990s and first appeared in 1996 on the
Jedi Mind Tricks'
Amber Probe EP. The original core members are Rasul Allah, The Breath of Judah, Richard Raw, Cosmic Crusader and Ancient Kemet. Their messages are influenced by
Nuwaubian philosophy,
Islam, and
the Nation of Gods and Earths; their subject matter draws from such topics as physics,
philosophy,
spirituality, science fiction, and mythology, of various traditions.