It’s been going down in Israel for a while now. It was the inspiration behind the Hip Hop Sulha. Bring all races and religions together on one mic. Let the divisions get washed away by the common man and MCs love for music. Well, Shemspeed teamed up with CP in Israel this Chanukah to throw a big Hip Hop Open Mic, this amongst the 3 Chanuka Shemspeed shows, was an amazing follow up to the Launch in J-Town!
oh yea, it was Featuring: DJ Meth-A-Morph, DJ Caress, DJ Markey Funk
Sagol 59, Rebel Sun, Funati Hassid, Mark The Black Russian, Empress Eyesis, Crazy Dog (Da 12 Year Old M.C), Ori Murray and THE CROWD
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.
