Matisyahu performs “Circle of Life” from the Disney Reggae Club album on Jay Leno. You will have to skip to minute 39 something to watch it, but yea….

Shemspeed musical artists DeScribe & Remedy showcase global Jewish diversity through their new video, “My Keffiyeh.” Help support this ground-breaking project and become a part of this historic event!
Shemspeed’s Israeli Keffiyeh is steadily gaining attention in the world of fashion, and in the process, spreading awareness of Jewish pride, respect, and cross-cultural unity. DeScribe, [...]

Red Bull will be throwing an innovative MC battle respecting the tried and true form of rap competition while highlighting the modern freestyle spirit. Hosted by Angie Yee and featuring champion freestyle MC, Kosha Dillz. The battle will be judged by Alchemist, Just Blaze and Craig G. Special Guest Headliner, not to be missed, [...]

Today is the day that the much anticipated album by Drake drops! He has to be the first artist to rule the station with so many songs before even releasing a debut record. If you are in NYC, he will be joining our good friends, NinjaSonik for a Free show tonight at South St. [...]

Matisyahu’s #1 fan finally gets some personal time & with the wrong person. Based on a true story.

Mistaken Matisyahu – watch more funny videos

Open call to Jewish artists from racially or ethnically diverse backgrounds or Jews whose work has an emphasis on expanding existing notions of what Jewish “looks” like. Pieces should be 2D and no larger than 3 x 4 ft. Your work will be featured as part of the Shemspeed Summer Festival on July 29 at [...]

Israel National Radio interviews Shir Yaakov about his new acoustic CD “Zeh “, his hip-hop music with rapper Ephryme on the Darshan project, living in a Jewish retreat center and why he prefers the small things in life.

Some of you all might be familiar with Eytan from Diwon’s Dreams in Static project, others might know him from his amazing Embassy band or his “Turn The Beat Around” cover on an MTV compilation from earlier this year, well, now MTV & KIA chose Eytan as THE band to star in a series [...]

Hot97’s Summer Jam invited Shemspeed’s Kosha Dillz & Flex Mathews to perform a set, in that set the boys did their crowd fav “Freestyle”. The concert featured Drake, Trey Songs, Ludacris, Juelz Santana, Nicki Minaj, Reflection Eternal, DJ Khaled, Fabolous, Gucci Mane, Usher among others. enjoy!

Last time I heard K’naan’s song “Wavin Flag” was when I was walking around Crown Heights with Matisy, he was singing it as if he was both celebrating and memorizing the melody. The song is catchy in its anthem like power and inspiring with its hopeful message, it has similar qualities to Matis’ “One [...]

Matisyahu has teamed up with Disney for a compilation CD which hit stores today. “The Disney Reggae Club” featuring artists performing their favorites from Disney’s catalogue of songs and other classics. Check out Matisiyahu singing “Circle of Life”, originally composed by Elton John in “The Lion King”.
Other Artists and tracks included on the album [...]

Just saw this at HipHopActivist.com, Y-Love’s new website: Not content with telling the inhabitants of Israel to “get the hell out of Palestine”, Ms. Thomas continues to suggest that the (mostly Jewish) inhabitants of Israel should “go back to Germany and Poland” — seemingly throwing in “America, and everywhere” as a second thought. Perhaps [...]

If you all are around NYC this weekend, drop into this years Summer Jam and check out your favorite rappers; Drake, Trey Songs, Ludacris, Juelz Santana, Nicki Minaj, Reflection Eternal, DJ Khaled, Fabolous, Gucci Mane, Usher & Kosha Dillz.

Shemspeed is on Demand!
 
If you have Comcast On Demand, you can view Shemspeed videos from Y-Love, DeScribe, Eprhyme and Kosha Dillz on your T.V.
 
Here’s how: Press On Demand Button / Choose TV Entertainment from Menu / Scroll to the bottom of the menu and choose Shalom TV / Click Judaism and Culture button / Scroll [...]

The Sephardic Music Festival will be releasing a compilation album of the best middle eastern music in all genres (dance, traditional, electro, hip hop, folk). The festival is now accepting submissions to be a part of this album which will be used to both introduce the world to new and amazing ‘world musics’ as well [...]

Diwon’s getting ready for the summer and first thing’s first, you need to have that summer jam cued up on your ipod and so he remixed Damien Marley’s “As We Enter”. He took their Patwa/Rap style and flipped it on a percussive house Bmore party style break.

Brody is the undisputed king of Israeli spiritual/soul/hip hop who mixes moroccan style with Hebrew and English melodies and rapping. Brody burst onto the scene with his “Lecha Dodi” remix of Akon’s “Right Now”. He followed that up with “Shir HaShirim”, a spiritual album collaboration with Diwon & Dugans of Dreams in Static, which you [...]

check out the album, here. We also posted tons of videos on the Shemspeed Channel. We will be throwing another Rap Fest at in early August as part of Shemspeed’s Summer Music Festival, which will also include Punk, Art, Rock nights as well as a cruise, look out for more info. For now, check [...]

Our boy Ori Shochat just did this new remix for Geechi Swede & Applejuice Kid AKA Freebass 808.
Enjoy
הנה רמיקס חדש שעשיתי לגוצ’י סווי ואפלג’וס קיד הידועים גם בתור פריבייס 808. תתפנקו
Freebass 808 feat. Jovi Rockwell - Rewind (Ori Shochat Remix)

This video only had 2,000 views and it was just so horribly bad, we thought it should have more. Check out this tone deaf Jewcentric parody of Alicia Keys/Jay-Z classic “New York” track, I don’t think [insert name of female MC] has any competition from this one.

Y-Love, the hip hop activist, is on his way to Louisiana right now and wanted to update you on what’s going on down there:
“The BP oil spill is potentially the biggest ecological disaster we or our descendents will see this century. Hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf before [...]

Shemspeed’s Rap Fest last night went off like a house party, the vibe was amazing! For those of you all who missed out on the magic, we posted a bunch of videos below: Directly below is the spontaneous Tap Dance vs. Beat Box vs. Guitar Vs Drums vs. Freestyling MC’s; Kosha Dillz, Flex Mathews & [...]