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Drake performs at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto in 2016. (Photo/Flickr-The Come Up Show CC BY-ND 2.0)
Posted inFirst Person

Drake lost the Great Rap War of 2024 — and so did Jews

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 9, 2024May 13, 2024

It’s been dubbed the Great Rap War. Over the past few weeks, Drake and Kendrick Lamar have been trading insults on increasingly nasty diss tracks that fans have streamed tens […]

Drake gets comfy in an armchair
Posted inMusic

Latest rap beef wraps in Drake, rhinoplasty and pastrami

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 15, 2024May 7, 2024
Tsutomu Shimura, better konwn as the rapper Lyrics Born, launched his cooking show "Dinner In Place" in 2020. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inFood

‘Jewpanese’ rapper has a new hit — an online cooking show

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten October 2, 2023December 20, 2023
(From left) Jordan Houston (aka Juicy J), Paul Beauregard (DJ Paul) and Cedric Coleman (Frayser Boy) of Three 6 Mafia hold their Oscar statues after winning best original song for "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," March 6, 2006. (Photo/Steve Granitz-WireImage)
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Rap group Three 6 Mafia arrives on TikTok with 2 videos of Hasidic Jews

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 21, 2023August 22, 2023
(Photos/Getty Images; Screenshot/YouTube; Collage by Mollie Suss)
Posted inCulture

The 10 most influential Jewish rappers of the past 50 years

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 11, 2023April 17, 2024
Clockwise from top left: The Beastie Boys, Doja Cat and Rick Rubin, shown with Russell Simmons, are a few of the prominent Jewish figures from the first 50 years of hip-hop. (Photos/JTA-Getty Images; Design/JTA-Mollie Suss)
Posted inMusic

From Rick Rubin to Doja Cat, Jews have helped shape the first 50 years of hip-hop

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 11, 2023August 16, 2023
(Photo/Rich Fury-VF20-Getty Images for Vanity Fair; Design/JTA-Mollie Suss)
Posted inCulture

‘How are you supposed to enjoy music by somebody that hates you?’: Jewish fans press pause on Ye’s songs

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten and JTA October 28, 2022
JID performing at the Governors Ball music festival in New York City. (Photo/Forward-Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

How a Jewish folk song made it into a chart-topping rap banger

by Tani Levitt and Forward September 2, 2022
Kosha Dillz (left) and Nissim Black perform across Midtown Manhattan in the video to "The Hanukkah Song 2.0." (Screenshot)
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Nissim Black and Kosha Dillz, Jewish hip-hop royalty, remix Adam Sandler’s ‘Chanukah Song’ on the streets of New York

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA December 1, 2021
Noah Shufutinsky a.k.a. Westside Gravy performing at Jewish National Fund-USA’s Spectacular Sunday on Sept. 12, 2021. (Photo/Bindelglass Photography)
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Westside Gravy: SoCal-raised rapper looks to take his career to next level in Israel

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten October 12, 2021October 12, 2021

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