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This Is Unity: Y-Love On G-d and Social Justice

September 12, 2011 by Patrick Beaulier

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEdk1q4vQL0

Shemspeed hip hop activist Y-Love on G-d and the Jewish people. The G-d Project is the world’s first social media platform dedicated to Jewish spirituality. We bring God back to the conversation.

Filed Under: Podcasts & Videos, The G-d Project Videos Tagged With: hip hop, shemspeed, the g-d project jewish, the god project jewish, this is unity, Y-Love

Y-Love Can’t Be G-d, But He Could Be An Angel

September 11, 2011 by Patrick Beaulier

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYJznPlMJck

Talmud and Hip Hop with Shemspeed artist Y-Love. The G-d Project is the world’s first social media platform dedicated to Jewish spirituality. We bring God back to the conversation.

Filed Under: Judaism & Belief, Podcasts & Videos, The G-d Project Videos Tagged With: god project, hip hop, shemspeed, talmud, the g-d project, the g-d project jewish, the god project, the god project jewish, Y-Love

Israeli Yemenite Ethiopian Hip Hop: Axum

May 4, 2010 by Patrick Beaulier

By Patrick Aleph

I was thrilled when my friend Russell from the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival told me about an Israeli hip hop/reggae group he was helping called Axum (named after the Ethiopian city which folklore says holds the Ark of the Covenant).

The duo features two MCs, Tedros (of Ethiopian descent) and Judah, whose family is from Yemen. And their music is just as diverse. The dancehall goes techno filtered through a hip hop pop aesthetic is electric.

America has been good to Axum. A tour with Soulico (JDub Records), and a residency in Georgia sponsored by Emory University’s Hillel. Atlanta has given them the opportunity to collaborate with Slade da Monsta and Mr. Fish, hip hop artists Jarrod and Rusky, reggae/dub artists Dubconscious, and rockers Nick Edelstein and Darin Seldes. They’ve also spent several nights at the Apache Cafe, performing with Dubconscious and their local band, attending open mic nights and hanging out.

When I asked the group about their connection to Judaism and Israel, their reply was, “[We] live an Israeli experience, not a Jewish one in particular.  Like many Israeli’s…religion is not a point of emphasis. [The] main tie to Judaism is the language, not the content.”

What you will hear is the bigger message of Axum: a peaceful, “One World” view through the eyes of the global hip hop community. The power of music to unite people, all people, under one banner.

Axum did have an opportunity to jump into America’s Jewish space. Emory Hillel hosted the band at their Passover seder. Congregation Bet Haverim, a Reconstructionist synagogue in Decatur, Georgia, asked the duo to perform at a Shabbat service. The guys were uncomfortable as they approached the stage to perform a few sacred songs with CBH’s lay cantor and choir, but enjoyed seeing the “new forms of worship” that congregations like this have.

There’s no rest for Axum. The group performs the evening they land and have shows in the following weeks in Tel Aviv.  They are currently working on new material for their second album produced by the Soulico family.

Check out Axum at www.myspace.com/axumisrael

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Parshat Shoftim w/ YLove

August 19, 2009 by Patrick Beaulier

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24l1HDN6uP8

Parshat Shoftim this week is brought to you by Y-Love, your favorite Modern Orthodox Jewish Hip Hop Superstar!

I spent the night in Teaneck, NJ with Y-Love and our mutual friend Marino after a Shemspeed gig. It was awesome. Walking down the suburban NJ streets talking about Hashem and how we’re going to take over the world.

@ylove @shemspeed

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