While Y-Love’s ‘See Me’ EP is influenced as much by rap vet Chuck D as by new artists like Major Lazer and Nicki Minaj, “All We Bring” a jazzy, soulful track off the EP sounds like it takes more cues from Louis Armstrong and the Golden Era of hip hop than the other world-club tracks. You could download the track for Free (below) and then get your copy of the remarkable EP which is available now through Shemspeed Direct , iTunes.and more.
Before Shyne became religious and Drake started making hip hop, Y-Love took the world by storm as the first black orthodox Jewish rapper. With “See Me”, Y-Love departs from both the ultra orthodox world and the underground aesthetic of hip hop, Y-Love demolishes the scene with “The Takeover” featuring TJ Di Hitmaker, his upcoming single release. The club-friendly tracks on See Me are influenced as much by rap vet Chuck D as by new artists like Major Lazer and Nicki Minaj. Producer Diwon (mastermind behindShemspeed Records) skillfully blends Middle Eastern beats with clubbed-out hip-hop, giving the EP an entrancing worldly sound ready for the dance floor. Y-Love explores a variety of styles, from dance and world to pop, to express his underlying message of harmony: “Unity builds the world, all divisions destroy the world.”
The “This is Unity” campaign highlights one of humanity’s most elusive concepts: Unity. As a result of extremisms and borders of class, race, religion and lifestyle, people have divided themselves into an ever-growing number of categories with which to separate from and label one another. In those categories themselves, we as humans often stereotype and stigmatize those who do not resemble the rest of the category.
“This is Unity” is an holistic, anti-bigotry campaign designed to highlight and celebrate diversity. From the music-video featuring Y-Love which highlights Jewish diversity, we hope to encourage a strengthening of Jewish unity and Jewish peoplehood worldwide. Through workshops and projects that bring together artists from
different backgrounds to perform in front of varied and mixed audiences, Shemspeed makes its contribution to building bridges between peoples in the hope of encouraging shared experience, constructive dialogue and some impetus for the resolution of some of the world’s most pressing disputes.
Standing up for what is right in the face of what is wrong with the world — through love and unity. This is unity, and this is how we at Shemspeed, Be’Chol Lashon & Nu Campaign do it.
Global hip hop star, Y-Love, and beatbox superstar Yuri Lane (who has over 13 millions hits on youtube) create all their music non-instrumentally, making it hard to believe that Yuri Lane’s mouth wasn’t being produced by Timbaland. The first single, “Watch” is about keeping the history of the Passover alive. Every year the Jewish Nation leaves Egypt; from exile to one step closer to redemption. G-dly things happening – Watch!
Y-Love comes together with Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Kasumi, the revolutionary video artist, on “For My People”, the politically charged protest anthem! Watch for their full-frontal social consciousness on their EP scheduled for release in 2012.
Recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Kasumi is a media artist uniquely blending film and live-performance into dynamic videoart. Known internationally for her innovative work, she employs an arsenal of powerful digital technology to weave vibrant visuals and powerful audio into experiences with poignant cultural-political meaning. Kasumi’s richly expressive and compelling compositions have appeared at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart and the Chroma Festival de Arte Audiovisual.
With a passion for collaboration, she has created distinctive media art for a myriad projects and performed alongside the likes of Grandmaster Flash, DJ Spooky, Modeselektor, and the New York Philharmonic. Her newest work, BREAKDOWN, premiered at Carnegie Hall in concert with the American Composers Orchestra. Her video “BREAKDOWN, The Remix” was named the 2010 Vimeo Awards Remix Winner.
Y-Love is currently gearing up for the release of “See Me”, his pop and club-friendly EP, on May 17th, and is currently on tour promoting his new single, “The Takeover” featuring TJ Di Hitmaker, produced by Diwon.
So grab Diwon’s Remix Retrospective, a 21-track collection of some of the hottest Diwon remixes to date, including a wide-range of artists from La Roux and Snoop Dogg to The xx and Idan Raichel.
We also have downloads of Darshan, Y-Love, Kosha Dillz & Yuri Lane!
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DIWON: A REMIX RETROSPECTIVE
Based in the stereophonic heart of Brooklyn, world music maestro Diwon is one of the most innovative and versatile Producers and DJs performing and recording music today. Diwon’s beats are strongly influenced by the musical traditions of his mother’s family, whose roots lie in Yemen. Diwon’s signature sound throughout his production and remixes are the complex percussive layers that create a world around each sound. The “Remix Retrospective” showcases Diwon’s sounds along with artists ranging from La Roux and Snoop Dogg to The xx and Idan Raichel.
Download this 21 track collection of some of the hottest Diwon remixes to date.
Thank you Madison: We had a killer time! It was really inspirational connecting with you all, reminds us why we do what we do.
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In a hip-hop world full of negative messages, Y-Love is leading a new era of “global hip-hop” –where pounding rhythms combine with social consciousness to “elevate, not tranquilize” the world. Back with his first album since his smash debut, This is Babylon, Y-Love is set to release his hotly anticipated new EP, See Me, on May 17.
The club-friendly tracks on See Me are influenced as much by rap vet Chuck D as by new artists like Major Lazer and Nicki Minaj. Producer Diwon (mastermind behind Shemspeed Records) skillfully blends Middle Eastern beats with clubbed-out hip-hop, giving the EP an entrancing worldly sound ready for the dance floor. Y-Love explores a variety of styles, from dance and world to pop, to express his underlying message of harmony: “Unity builds the world, all divisions destroy the world.”
Lead single “The Takeover,” featuring Jamaican dancehall artist Tj Di Hitmaker, explodes with African rhythms and clever wordplay. We thought instead of waiting, we would give you a Free Download of the track now.
Note: The album version of “The Takeover” features Andy Milonakis alongside Y-Love, Tj & Diwon.
Promoting his upcoming EP, “See Me”, produced by Diwon, which will hit the streets on May 17th along with the long awaited, “This is Unity” video, Y-Love was featured on FOX2 with a performance and interview. Run-on sentences aside, check this video out.
Y-Love & Guy Greenstein beat boxed and rapped Purim during recess at Solomon Schechter today. Y-Love’s rhymes are from his “Megillah Freestyle” off the ‘Count It’ record he did with Yuri Lane. In case you been sleeping on it, famous Orthodox rapper Y-Love and beatbox superstar Yuri Lane created an all vocal album hip-hop record with over seven tracks to correspond to the seven weeks of the Sefira. The album is amazingly musical and innovative, with a bangin intro and an outro that will make it hard to believe that Yuri Lane’s mouth wasn’t being produced by Timbaland. BUY THE WHOLE ALBUM – HERE
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Shemspeed Fam — it’s time for all things free!
In a hip-hop world full of negative messages,