After 50 Shekel’s public conversion to Jews for Jesus, who could blame mainstream media for turning the Jewish rap genre into a joke? But instead JPost instead pays respect to Jewish rap with glowing reviews of Ju-Tang Clan‘s new album and Oakland’s Original Jewish Gangsters, featured right here last week. We’ve had the latter’s CD spinning in our hard drive all week long and we testify that Jewish hip hop is more than a gimmickÂit’s here to stay, y’all.
And while we’re on the subject of Jewish music, we found Eden recently. These three cute frum dudes playing “Jewish mainstream hard rock” straight outta Brooklyn haven’t been around long, but their catchy Matchbox 20-ish, Third-Eye Blind sound and soulful lyrics have us waiting for a West Coast tour. Check it out!
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I heard somewhere that the rap word “crunk” that little john uses is really a yiddish word. Has any one else heard this?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crunk
” 2. Crunk
The word in Yiddish means “sick,” and was brought into the Southern Black vernacular through the presence of European Jewish immigrant shopkeepers in black neighborhoods in cities such as Atlanta.
Can be used in the sense of “messed up” as in “these forks are crunk,” and spread to “messed up” as from controlled substances”