{"id":76701,"date":"2023-08-14T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=76701"},"modified":"2023-09-22T16:13:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T21:13:51","slug":"hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"v2 ps2 s3 c37\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"shape11 v2 ps4 s21 c39\">\n<p class=\"p3 f3\"><strong>The 50th anniversary of hip-hop is being celebrated, commemorating a party hosted by DJ Kool Herc in an apartment building in the Bronx on August 11, 1973 which is recognized as the first hip-hop event. The music and culture of hip-hop comprises four main elements: DJing\/turntablism, MCing\/rapping, B-boying\/breaking, and visual\/graffiti art. There are many Jewish hip-hop and rap artists, among them Drake and the Beastie Boys, each of whom have offered Jewish moments in their public lives, recordings or performances. For example, Drake performed in a&nbsp;<span class=\"f15\">Saturday Night Live<\/span>&nbsp;skit called \u201cDrake\u2019s Bar Mitzvah,\u201d and he filmed his video HYFR in Miami\u2019s Temple Israel. The Beastie Boys (Michael \u201cMike D\u201d Diamond, Adam \u201cMCA\u201d Yauch, and Adam \u201cAd-Rock\u201d Horovitz) included a song on one of their albums called&nbsp;<span class=\"f15\">Shadrach<\/span>, where they compared themselves to Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, three Jewish men who defied King Nebuchadnezzar II as told in the Book of Daniel. What Jewish moments have been part of other Jewish hip-hop performers\u2019 lives?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"v2 ps5 s6 c40\">\n<div id=\"attachment_76702\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/herc_on_the_wheels_of_steel-258.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76702\" class=\"wp-image-76702 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/herc_on_the_wheels_of_steel-258-172x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/herc_on_the_wheels_of_steel-258-172x300.webp 172w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/herc_on_the_wheels_of_steel-258.webp 258w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 172px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 172\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76702\" class=\"wp-image-76702 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/herc_on_the_wheels_of_steel-258-172x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/herc_on_the_wheels_of_steel-258-172x300.webp 172w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/herc_on_the_wheels_of_steel-258.webp 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-76702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herc on the Wheels of Steel&nbsp;by Bigtimepeace is in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A.<span class=\"f7\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f7\">The Alchemist, born Alan Daniel Maman, released an album in 2015 titled&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f16\">Israeli Salad<\/span><span class=\"f7\">&nbsp;made up of&nbsp;&nbsp;instrumental compositions which sampled Israeli songs. One track on that album is called&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f16\">Bone Thugs N\u2019 Haifa<\/span><span class=\"f7\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"v2 ps5 s14 c42\">\n<p class=\"p3 f8\">B.<span class=\"f7\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f7\">The multi-lingual hip-hop group Hip Hop Hood\u00edos released a CD titled&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f16\">Carne Masada: Quite Possibly the Very Best of Hip Hop Hoodios<\/span><span class=\"f7\">&nbsp;which contained the songs&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f16\">Que Pasa in Israel<\/span><span class=\"f7\">,&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f16\">Asi Loncheamos! (Two Matzoh Balls)<\/span><span class=\"f7\">, and&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f16\">Shalom Obama<\/span><span class=\"f7\">&nbsp;among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f9\">C.<span class=\"f7\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f7\">Los Serenos Sefarad (the \u201cSefardi Watchmen\u201d) is a Jewish hip-hop group from Seattle which was formed by Rabbi Simon Benzaquen and Mexican-born rapper\/guitarist Alejandro \u201cAlex\u201d Hernandez. Rabbi Benzaquen had no particular knowledge of hip-hop until he performed the conversion to Judaism of rapper Nissim Black (formerly Damian Jamohl Black).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f10\">D.<span class=\"f11\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f7\">Rapper Benjamin Landy Pavlon, who performs as BLP Kosher, has recorded songs and videos including&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f16\">Jew on the Canoe<\/span><span class=\"f7\">&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f16\">Special K<\/span><span class=\"f7\">&nbsp;(which includes the lyrics&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f16\">And I&#8217;m forever smoking Nazis\/I\u2019ma pass the blunt to Anne Frank)<\/span><span class=\"f7\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f12\">E.<span class=\"f7\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f7\">El-P, born in Brooklyn as Jaime Meline, was not raised in his mother\u2019s Catholic faith or his father\u2019s Jewish faith, though he noted of his Jewish ancestry that he \u201cgot none of it except a circumcision at birth.\u201d He is an investor in the Jewish-style deli Frankel\u2019s in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"f13\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rrrjewishtrivia.com\/answers-2023\/hip-hop-answer.html\">Click here for the answer.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Hip-Hop\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5841],"tags":[13265,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76703,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76701\/revisions\/76703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}