I could still remember that moment when Pace Won and Mr. Green took the stage opening up for our “Freestyle Vs. Written” album release party at the Knitting Factory. All of the sudden a familiar song comes on, it was Miami Boys Choir singing the classic “Eshet Chayil”, but within 15 seconds it got flipped on some hip hop style and the vocals were cut up and used as keyboard notes. It was sick and with Pace Won rhymin over it the contrast was infectious. I mean, I’m not running to play this for my Rabbi, cuz it;s a bit dirty, but infectious none the less. Anyway, check out Mr. Green and Pace on their album “The Only Color That Matters is Green”. For those of you unfamiliar, Mr. Green was also producer on “Childhood” (check it live at youtube.com/shemspeed), the song features Matisyahu, C-Rayz Walz, and Kosha Dillz. So, he is high up on the Shemspeed Family Tree.
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.
