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30 Years of Hip Hop (The Israeli Angle)
Two weeks ago, respected Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz celebrated 30 years of Hip Hop with a special festive magazine. They asked yours truly to contribute a piece about Israeli Hip Hop from a historical, musical, social and personal angle. Here’s the article in English (sorry for some minor errors. it’s not my translation).
Israeli Hip Hop Lights Up Hanukkah
If you’re in Israel on Hanukkah week, you’re most welcome to check out this massive hip hop show, taking place at the Barzilay club in Tel Aviv, Tuesday December 15th, starting 10pm. Performers include yours truly, as well as Lukatch, Vulkan, Produx, System Ali and many more.
See ya!
Hip Hop’s 30th Anniversary (The Israeli Angle)
Last week, respected Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz celebrated 30 years of Hip Hop with a special festive magazine. They asked yours truly to contribute a 1200 word article about Israeli Hip Hop from a historical, musical, social and personal angle.
The article can be found online here (sorry, Hebrew only…)
Enjoy!
The Shadow Disses Subliminal
As Subliminal, Israel’s most successful rapper, continues to detach himself from the TACT Family, the empire he single-handedly built, his former cronies are getting more and more irate. Long time partner in rhyme The Shadow (”Hatzel”) has just released a ‘diss’ track, calling Subliminal “a home wrecker”, and claiming Subliminal “screwed him” financially. Israel’s Channel 2 reports from within the troubled Hip Hop empire.
“Sabra Sessions Vol. 1″ - Cool Israeli Hip Hop Mixtape
Erez Safar a.k.a Diwon of Shemspeed/Modular Moods has compiled this very dope mixtape of Israeli Hip Hop, covering artists as diverse as Subliminal, Axum, Sagol 59, KYD, Shi 360, Kele 6 and many more.
Download here and bump in your car down highway 1, from T.A to Jerusalem.
Corner Prophets crew reunited in Jerusalem show
So, what started as a Rebel Sun & Sagol 59 show at the Bass club in Jerusalem on Saturday night, eventually turned into a full-fledged Corner Prophets freestyle cipher, featuring Sagol, Rebel Sun, Knights Of The Roundtable, Marc The Black Russian, Funati Hassid, DJ Meth-A-Morph and Joseph, a dancehall M.C from Ghana.
Jerusalem Hip Hop Showcase
Jerusalem M.Cs (and Corner Prophets alumni) Sagol 59, Vulkan and Funati Hassid, plus DJs Guvibosh, Danny Beck and special guests, will perform live at the BASS club in downtown Jerusalem, Thursday July 30th, 21:00. Familar stuff, new songs, freestyles and special collaborations are guaranteed. See y’all there!
“Jew” Got Served: Dance-off your differences!
Synopsis: The video in question starts with a shoulder bump between the tallest wanderer in a clan of mizrachi yeshiva kids and the tallest member of a clan of less-religious-looking mizrachi kids. The situation quickly escalates to a dance-off. For those unfamiliar with Israeli street etiquette, spontaneous dance-offs must be settled by the SHORTEST representatives of wandering child-clans in conflict. The other rule: if the tiny yeshiva kid break dances, battle is over, and both parties must acquiesce to learning the hustle together, while tacitly singing thanks to their Maker in the chorus.
I still believe in hip-hop dance as a medium for Jewish unification. I just don’t think this is how it would play out…
JDub gets Jewish hip-hop props
Last Friday, the Rhapsody Soundtreks blog had a story on Jewish hip-hop, and JDub was well-represented. Tomer Yosef, Sagol 59 The African Queen release
, and So-Called all got nods. So did a few non-JDub artists, including Hip Hop Hoodios and Blood of Abraham, whom Dr. Doughnuts
Sydney White on dvd taught you about in an earlier post Lethal Weapon 2 psp .
JDub Records: your one stop shop for Jewish hip-hop knowledge.
Great Rappers to follow on Twitter
Twitter really does shed light on entertainer’s personal worlds and thoughts that we never saw before. URB magazine compiled a list of the ten most entertaining rappers they follow and a select tweet from each
Sage Francis- SageFrancisSFR
“if I had $1 for every time I had a flight delayed or canceled at the chicago airport I’d be able to buy something from the Skymall catalog.”
Fabolous
“Ok, never had Jack Daniels in my life. But Rihanna jus pass me a ginger & jack.. How do u turn down a drink from Rihanna? I know how, u dont”
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