Corner Prophets

Coolooloosh, Jerusalem’s great Funk-Hip Hop band, fronted by M.C and Corner Prophet extraordinaire Rebel Sun, has a brand new album out. “Elements Of Sound” was produced by David Ivory, who also worked with The Roots and Erykah Badu.

Check out The Band and the album HERE

 Bonus: Here’s a rare video from 2006, of Jerusalem M.Cs Rebel Sun & Sagol 59, freestyling live on Israeli radio. Members of Coolooloosh also in attendance… Enjoy!

All For Peace Radio Presents:

Middle Eastern Hip Hop Special Podcast - For Free Download Here (Right Click+”Save As”)

Tracklist:

Peled & Ortega-Achushilling

Ramallah Underground-Fi Worry

Qwami & The Halvot-Science Fiction

Parvarim Refugeez-Hitting Bongs

Sagol 59-Desert Island Freestyle

Tamer Naffar-Jerusalem

Qwami-Abu Microphone

Qwami & The Halvot-Pop War

PR-Laugh Of Pain

Sagol 59-Money In The Industry

Ramallah Undeground-Taht Al Ankad

Ramallah Undeground-Under Occupied Town

Beethoven-5^th Symphony

Eminem-The Real Slim Shady

Wassim A’aker-Sahsah

Enjoy! 

CornerProphets affiliated Jerusalem based Musician/Producer Dj Caress has just released his full length debut “Sellout”. The album blends Eletronica, Hip-Hop, Soul & manipulated samples from vintage Israeli records & films. The album features Shaanan Street [Hadag Nahash], DAM and members of Israeli Rap crew 51% . Other contributions are by folk duo Visiting Hours, vocalist Galia Yaron, poet/author Shimon Adaf and Jerusalem M.C Sagol 59. The first edition comes with a bonus DJ set by Caress, that features the Israeli music that inspired the album.

In the last few years, Caress has been involved in albums by Sagol 59, Shaanan Street, Taboo Plus, Rocky B. and more. 

For more info check out his Myspace Page

Songs that provoke and persuade - a new collection in
Hebrew, Arabic, and English, released on CD by SHATIL, the NIF Empowerment and Training Center for Social Change Organizations in Israel.

To mark its 25th anniversary, Shatil is releasing a unique, multi-language CD collection of social protest/social change songs in featuring top-ranked Israeli artists.

Each song takes on a different aspect of Israeli’s current social situation and rouses listeners out of apathy. They protest the link between politics and big money; ambivalent attitudes toward new immigrants, migrant workers, and other “strangers;” indifference about environmental destruction; the rise of the consumer culture; the effects of occupation and war; women’s inequality, and more.

All the featured artists contributed their songs gratis to this collection. All proceeds from sales of the CD will go directly to the New Israel Fund for its support of Israel’s social change organizations.

Tracklist:

• Dan Toren Yahasit Beseder  (Relatively Okay)
• Mook E. Medabrim al Shalom (Talking about Peace)
• Devek Beshem HaDemocratia (In the Name of Democracy)
• Vulkan (feat. Chuck and Black Russian) The Aliyah
• BrinkX: Messer (Message)
• Albert Amar: Shakuf (Transparent)
• Chava Alberstein: Vera MeBucharest (Vera from Bucharest)
• Yankele Rotblit: Arba’im Shana (Forty Years)
• Sagol 59: Nikui Rosh (Mankush Remix) (Head Cleaning)
• Teapacks: Hora Nadlanim (Real Estate Hora)
• Ze’ev Tene: Hey, Buba (Hey, Babe)
• DAM: Kan Noldati (Born Here)
• Hadag Nachash: L’hithalek Ba’ir (Share the City)
• Adamai Ensemble: Absurd
• Amal Murkus: La Ahada Yalam (No One Knows)
• Aviv Geffen: Holech Kadima (Keep Walking)
• David Broza: Al Titnu Lahem Rovim (Don’t Give them Guns)
• Peter, Paul and Mary: If I Had a Hammer
• Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune

The album can be purchased here

In response to Subliminal (Kobi Shimoni) and Miri Ben Ari’s god-awful Holocaust memorial track, godfather of Jerusalem hip-hop and Corner Prophets frontman Sagol 59 decided to throw down his own track, “Shoah Business,” which — despite not being intended as a “dis” track — skewers Shimoni for his disgraceful lyrical exploitation of the Holocaust.

Full coverage, with Subliminal’s response, available in Hebrew only from Yediot Ahranot, here.

An English translation follows…

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Read the article and see photos from last month’s event RIGHT HERE

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Last week, Israel’s most popular Funk-Hip Hop band has released its new album “Be’ezrat Ha-Jam”, produced by Yossi Fine and recorded in the U.S and in Israel. The singles “California” and “Here I Come” are already riding high on the Israeli Charts. The band also has a new website, containing such treats as never-before-heard tracks, photos from the recording sessions and various videos.

Last night, Y-Love brought the Jews to Uganada, Jerusalem’s premier record shop/café, for an amazing live set featuring performances from Corner Prophets’ finest, including Sagol 59, Rebel Sun & Shmash, with DJ Caress manning the decks. Granted, it’s not the largest venue in the city, but the place was filled twice over with a relatively diverse crowd comprised primarily of Orthodox olim who don’t usually frequent such locales. The energy was through the roof however, as the audience marvelled at the multifacted talents of Y-Love and his newfound Jerusalem compatriots. Sadly my Minidisc recorder bombed on me, and I’m still waiting on photos of the performance itself, but here are a couple buddy-buddy shots to whet your appetites.

Y-Love gets love from Rebel Sun, Sagol 59 and Omen X

Shmash, Rebel Sun & Sagol 59

Last week, I had the pleasure of introducing Y-Love to Shmash, the artist formerly known as Shmoopafly, thus bringing two of the most creative, multilingual, Hasidic minds in hip-hop together in collaboration. The meeting proved fruitful: The two immediately took a liking to one another, and by week’s-end, they were in the studio cranking out tracks.

Here is the result: “Hebrew Child,” from Y-Love and Shmash, with production from France’s Beatsmaker.

“Y-Love (Yitz Jordan) is an MC unlike any other. He is a black convert into the Bostener sect of chassidus (the mystical branch of Orthodox Judaism). He is among the most innovative freestylers on the scene, weaving seamless polyglot rhymes in English, Arabic, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Most unique is Y-Love’s revival of Aramaic, the ancient language used to discuss Jewish Law. With each word he spits in the tongue of the Talmud, Y-Love breathes new life into Hasidism, and hip-hop, one beat at a time.”

Visit Y-Love’s page at Modular Moods or check out his MySpace profile.