Jewish hip hop is becoming bigger and bigger in fact Shemspeed is heading down to Jewlicious Festival in Long beach CA to unleash the latest of the genre. Its funny how it probably started with Shlock Rock naturally parodying a hip hop track (they did so many parodies it only made sense) oh, and, for those with a local Orthodox CD store in their neighborhoods, Black Hatitude were doing it hard back in the 90’s. They were two rappers who obviously overdosed on Tribe Called Quest, Alice and Chains and Digable Planets, but the content was all very very religious. In fact if you didn’t know anything about Yeshiva, youl would be totally lost. They took the hayevin yavin attitdue. Anywaym I’m happy where we are at now. With Y-Love, Kosha Dillz and Niz, things are looking pretty nice and seeing this ridiculous video makes me pray to Hashem and thank him that our market isn’t saturated with this clueless white boy style….still.
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.
