Shemspeed popped off in Bushwick with crazy art and culture parties, in fact back back years ago before Shemspeed was a company and name, it was a movement and Diwon shot Crazy Yosef wrapped in teffilin (see photo & write up here) davening mincha and scratching records on his turntables. That flier later came to be one of the first fliers for one of the first collabs of Diwon’s then band, Juez and Matisyahu in his first live band set up. Lot’s of first and this Lykke Li video reminded us of some of the insane and fun art that was coming from our collabs with everyone from DJ Spooky and Saul Williams to Heeb Magazine and Paul Barman.
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Shemspeed is an independent recording label and promotional agency highlighting cross-over music artists with positive and unifying messages. Founded by Erez Safar, an American-Israeli DJ/Producer, Shemspeed promotes over 15 dynamic artists representing a wide range of genres including hip-hop, reggae, and rock. These artists include Y-Love (revolutionary Jewish hip-hop), Diwon (Yemenite / Sephardic hip-hop, Israeli music and more), DeScribe (soul-awakening dancehall, hip-hop, & soul), and Electro Morocco (Israeli rock, dance music.) Shemspeed artists, collectively showcasing the diversity in world Jewish music, have performed with musicians as varied as Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Idan Raichel and Eminem; they’ve been profiled in Rolling Stone, SPIN, The New York Times and XXL; and they’ve been seen and heard around the world on various TV appearances (Conan O’Brien, CBS and BBC World) and global radio. Shemspeed’s mission is unifying people through culture and education, celebrating diversity and common ground. By way of this work, we add a public Jewish voice to multi-cultural, inter-faith, creative and collaborative bridge-building.
