Here is a sneak peek the Electro Morocco’s video of “Sweetly Down” from their forth coming EP out on Shemspeed and Blue Jay Way Music! The EP will feature some of the groups hottest tracks, including remixes and guest vocalists from around the world. Oh, and grab an exclusive download of their Sweetly Down single [...]

I don’t know how many of you all watched The OC back when it was on. It was a Shemspeed guilty pleasure, Seth was our boy, we wanted to dork out with him to indie rock and when he finally got that Spiderman kiss from Summer, man, those were the days. Seth was really just [...]

Sholom Rubashkin has been treated harshly and vindictively in a prosecution that is likely to go down in history as a shameful permanent stain on American Justice.
Concerned Americans who wish to communicate their respectful concern over the handling of the Rubashkin case are urged to sign the online petition and contact the Justice Department – [...]

A couple nights ago, Shemspeed took over Sullivan Hall for Israel’s Independence Day. The day before we were at Brooklyn College and noticed all sorts of cookies at the merch booth, some were called ‘Independence cookies’….I think we finally got it… anyway, tap dance champ, Benjamin Nathan came through to play the role of beatboxer/drummer [...]

We thought we should fill you in one what exactly Shemspeed is up to for Earth Day 2010! Shemspeed & DeScribe are teaming up with Marley Coffee and its mission for furthering ital organic foods. Today Shemspeed will be sitting down with elected officials of Brooklyn Crown Hieghts community & Brooklyn Borough President, Marty [...]

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Matisyahu’s Israeli Keffiyeh (kuffi as he calls) while he was stage diving in Argentina but, before that, he wore it all over TV down there and then sent us this photo, which is a collage of the photos that Rolling Stone took of his show in Buenos Aires (Israeli Keffiyeh at

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Look out for:
“Down” by Electro Morocco
“Shma Kolienu” by Brody
“One Day (Electro Morocco Remix)” by Matisyahu
“Bring it on Down (Talib Kwali Remix) by Y-Love & Diwon LIVE
“Raje” by DeScribe & Dennis
“My Keffiyeh” by DeScribe & Remedy
“Modern Day Moses (Electro Morocco Remix)” by DeScribe Feat. Shmoolik
“Boom Selecta” by Electro Morocco & Shemspeed MCs

Some of you all may know Seth Kushner as the photographer that took the famous Y-Love “This is Babylon” photo, or the one from the Brooklynites book. Other might know him from his photos of Rosario Dawson, The Roots and Jeremy Piven. Well, our good friend Seth just just created his new webcomic, CulturePOP: [...]

Shtar is one of our new favorite Jewish hip hop groups. They bridge west coast style rhymes with Gorillaz tinged choruses. In the video below they take on the Modeh Ani or Modeh (Hebrew: מודה אני‎; “I give thanks,” the first words of the prayer) which is a Jewish prayer that observant Jews recite daily [...]

Our good friends at Shemspeed decided to give away tons and tons of stuff to help them out. Shemspeed Pack - An EP from Shemspeed recording artists including Kosha Dillz, DeScribe, Y-Love, Diwon, Brody, and Eprhyme.
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If you grabbed the Y-Love & Yuri Lane “Count It” (Sefira) album then the next thing to get is Matisyahu’s “One Day” accapella for Sefira.
Here is what Matis says: “Vus Machs Da Yidden, Here is a little Omer gift for ya who aren’t listening to music for the next few days. Enjoy!”

Check dis - The “Socalled” Movie is a documentary film about klezmer hip-hop artist Josh Dolgin aka Socalled. Featuring Katie Moore, Fred Wesley, C-Rayz Walz (of Shemspeed’s “Freestyle vs. Written” with Kosha Dillz), David Krakauer, Matt Haimovitz, Arkady Gendler, Benjamin Steiger Levine, D-Shade, Gonzales and Irving Fields, the movie is a kaleidoscopic portrait, offering 18 [...]

Y-Love & Yuri Lane “Passover Song” (Free Download)
During a time when some Jews refrain from listening to live music - famous Orthodox rapper Y-Love and beatbox superstar Yuri Lane (who has over 9 millions hits on youtube) create all their music non-instrumentally. The album is an all vocal hip-hop record with over seven tracks to [...]

A couple nights ago Shemspeed got down with Onili from Tel Aviv with kingpin scenester, DJ Ori Shochat here in Brooklyn. We think you should check her out, so we filmed the first two songs she played as Y-Love & Diwon wrapped up their set. ch-ch-check it: