Watch Your Back, Matisyahu!

If we ever left the house, we'd definitely check out the Israeli Hip-Hop night at the 92nd Street Y's Steinhart Building on March 11th. In the clip above, Y-Love explains his cross-cultural rapping style-- it's pretty impressive to see someone lay down rhymes in English, Aramaic, and Hebrew all at the same time. [Related: hundreds of Matisyahu clips at YouTube.]

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that hippie was seriously awful. I'm not even saying that to be mean, I'm just compelled to add to your comment because I literally cringed when I watched it. I was embarassed for everyone involved.

p.s. israeli hip-hop? some creeps kibutznik rapping about life in someone else's country... um, no thanks

I suppose all rappers from the U.S. are Native American, then?

terrible. please save that stuff for telaviv-ist. which maybe you will get around to after peoria-ist and bumfukegypt-ist?

sorry, mixing random ethnic culture A with hip-hop does not make A cool.

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