re:up Tikkun Klali Uman
This post is from back in 2008 and its still one of my favorite spiritual albums.
The Beat Guide to Yiddish
This post is from back in 2008 when I made this crazy mixtape… Diwon has produced countless electro and hip hop mixes. His use of traditional Yemenite and Sephardic music, however, sets him apart from other artists in the genre. Influenced heavily by his family’s roots in Yemen, Ethiopia and Israel, the multicultural maestro is …
Y-Love in the Daily News
This post is from back in 2008 and it was really great to have the exposure for the music I was making with Y-Love. Tale of tragedy and triumph for a struggling Hasidic rap star BY SIMONE WEICHSELBAUM DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER “He dodged bullets on a streetcorner. He watched his mother die from a …
Santogold & Avi Fox-Rosen
This post is from back in 2008 Remember when George Benson did a jazz guitar version of all of Abbey Road one month after the Beatles released theirs? Me neither, but it happened. Seems that remixes killed covers for the most part, especially when it’s electronic music going to acoustic form, and that’s a shame. …
BBC WORLD TV & New Video
This post is from back in 2008 BBC WORLD TV Y-Love and Diwon will be on BBC World TV Live at 12:45pm (London Time) We will update you on when it will air again. The segment will feature an exclusive interview with Y-Love on his Global Hip Hop style and feature a debut performance of …
Back to London!
This post is from back in 2008 Shemspeed’s Y-Love, Diwon & Smadar, and Anomaly MC are performing in the UK beginning this weekend at the massive LimmudUK festival and then onto the clubz. here is a schedule. AUGUST 23rd – LIVE IN LONDON * Y-Love, Diwon & Smadar Live at LimmudUK FEST in Derbyshire – …
HaTikvah!
I wrote this in 2008 about a collaboration with my friend who is now in Distant Cousins Lemme give ya’ll some background for thems unaffiliated and for the people who hit the recreational stuff a bit too much to remember the words from when you were kids. The words to this song were written in …
Diplo & A-Trak HEART the SMF!
I wrote this in 2008 about my two fav DJs and Producers. We caught up with Diplo and A-Trak at their Mad Fools After pArty. Mad Fools was that who is who of hipster cool which went down yesterday at Summer Stage. There were over 3000 people there and it felt like the show of …
The Kosha C-Rayz Walz!
Wrote this in 2008 about our artists that we released the album “Freestyle vs. Written” So you all know C-Rayz Walz. Some from his MTV appearances, some from his freestyle world championships, others from his Def Jux releases with El-P and Aesop Rock and some of the yids just know him from his songs with …
Fair Ain’t Fair
Wrote this in 2008 about one of my favorite artists who is now featured on two tracks on my album, New Game. The first time I saw Tim Fite was with So Called at the Knitting Factory which makes him an honorary Heeb. Plus he lives in Brooklyn which is what? 99% Jewish… Anyway he …
Diwon in Israel Live
Wrote this in 2008 listing my Israel tour. Diwon tours Israel this week with 3 very different shows. (ALL FREE!) check out below for all info! * TUESDAY NIGHT June 17th Diwon @ Hataklit Heleni HaMalka St. 7 (downtown up the street from Cafe Hillel and Coffee Bean) 9pm Doors – Free sponsored by ROI …
Adam Mansbach is our boy for life!
I wrote this about my boy Adam on 2008 he has since written “Go the F**k to Sleep” and released a audio book version read by Samuel L. Jackson. Our favorite performer/speaker/writer just released his new novel, “The End of the Jews“. Mr. Mansbach is probably the most articulate and interesting writer in the world …
Y-Love in XXL!
Wrote this on March 2008 about the rapper I have been producing for years! This has got to be the first time any religious Jew has ever been mentioned let alone profiled in XXL. I mean the magazine is straight thugged out hip hop. Its the Rolling Stone of rap! The profile with photo and …
Introducing Diwon That Yemenite Kid
This was written in March 2008 when I first launched my DJing and Producing under the name Diwon. Ok, Ok, so there is this new amazing artist named Diwon and he makes Yemenite music. The thing is its not your Savta’s ol’ traditional kind…its for the hip hop heads and the hipster club kids. Just …