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Adam Shenkman us a funny, innovative comedian based out of California. He created this hilarious and entertaining comedy music video called Sarah Silverman’s Trunk, which I hope you enjoy as much as I did.
I’d love for Sarah Silverman to blow my shofar!
Underground Hip Hop Albany Style“Albany” Lou Samberg, cousin to SNL’s Adam Samberg, is a hard working young Hebrew from New York State, who likes to bust out rhymes about his life and what’s important to him to the sound of hip hop beats.
JM: Who are the Jews in your family?
AL:Both Mother and Father are 100% Jewish. My Fathers last name is Samberg and my mother’s mother was Cohen. I had a crash-course Bar Mitzvah when I turned 13. I never did understand the tradition of tossing candy at the Bar Mitzvah Boy. My Father recalls me chucking it right back at people HARD…lol
JM: How do you define yourself? A rapper? A hip hop artist? Producer?
AL: A rapper, entertainer, dogman, father, businessman. I havn’t realy dabbled in production aspect of Hip Hop. I believe I could do it, but I’m more about the verbal expression.
JM: Where did your “name” come from?
AL: Growing up in Albany NY, people knew me as Lou/Louie/Casino/White Lou/Lou the Jew/Snozz/Boss. The name Albany Lou came about when I started going out of town to get money. It was then that I started advertising my game-bred pitbulls in various dog magazines under the alias “Albany Lou”. When I began taking the music seriously, it was natural for me to keep that name.
JM: Are you signed to any labels?
AL: I have not signed any papers at this point though I have had offers from some smaller labels. I’m a little uncomfortable with signing anything besides autographs. I am lucky that my cousin is an entertainment Lawyer that can help.
JM: How many CD’S/Albums have you released so far?
AL: 3 released and one on the way SOON. I have only one actual album at this point. I feel the mixtape route is a much better way to accumulate a buzz. Once I’m in the public eye a bit more then I’ll start droppin more albums.
1. DEAD GAME(the album)
2.DEAD GAME vol 2 hosted by the mix-king DJ Life
3 Back in the box
4 comin soon
JM: Who were your biggest musical influences when you started?
AL: I started listening to hip hop when the west was real popular (Snoop, Dre, Ice Cube, Cypress hill etc. Then came Wu, Biggie, Mobb Deep, Outkast, Big Pun, Twista, Jay Z, Dmx, The Lox, Eminem, etc. It would be hard to say which artist influenced me the most though.
JM: Whose music influences you today?
AL: Honestly, the people around me that I grew up with are all worthy Mc’s and they probably shape me more than anyone else. We all kind of build off each other, although at this point they dont realy persue the music the way I do. As of lately, the rappers outside my circle that I listen to are Necro and ill bill, I’m feelin that new Hellraiser and Shabazz album, but not a lot of rap I hear inspires me the way it used to.
JM: Where did you grow up, where were you raised and where is home for you?
AL: I was born in Chinatown (NYC) but my family moved to long island a couple years later. My mother and I went through some really tough times and tough years. I stayed with my grandfather for a couple of years and then moved to Albany myself. Albany is definately my home. I’ve been here since I was ten and I know everyone.
JM: Is Tupac really alive?
AL: Josh your a jerk(smile).
JM: Whose music rubs you the wrong way?
AL: I don’t really ever get rubbed the wrong way by music, even when maybe it should at times. I’m a little mad at Eminem for not putting on another talented white rapper. Em, we are out here and yes we had it hard too!
JM: How did you get to where you are now? What were the big breaks and events?
AL: Haha, I’m still lookin for that big break.
JM: Has there been anyone who has mentored or really helped you along the way?
AL: I have great support through friends and family, but my answer has to be no. I do it mostly on my own even when they say it’s not possible!
JM: When did you first start getting into the performance side of music?
AL: When I was eleven, three of my friends and I performed Bobby brown’s “Get away” in the school lip sink contest., after that it was house party. I think performing is somthing that has always been in my blood.
JM: Who do you hang out with, anyone noteworthy?
AL: My 1st Cousin Andy Samberg is real popular on SNL. I’m also close with DJ Life (Blockburners/streetsweepers/BLACKFOOT ENT. He’s like Albany’s Kayslay and his name is known heavy in NY, and in Jersey.
JM: What song has had the biggest impact on you personally?
AL: What song of mine? I would say my Dead Game song because of the creativity that went into makin it and because of the effect that it had on other people. It gave me my original fan base.
JM: What do you write about in your songs?
AL: Life in general. I’m not the type of artist that sticks to the script. No one is one-dimensional. If I feel happy then I make a happy song and if Im angry it also shows in my music.
JM: What bothers you about the music business?
AL: The same thing that bothers me about Life. Not enough loyalty, too much ego, and very little truth. Plus, its’ all about a buck. Deserving artists that make real authentic music are the ones who should be reaping the benefits.
JM: How has being a Jew or in other less popular words, has having Jewish blood in your veins made a difference in your life?
AL: It’s made all the difference in many ways and yet no difference at all in others. First of all, let me say that I did not grow up around Jews. My mother and I celebrated Hanukah every year. When I was young I used to get into fights because I was constantely ridiculed for being Jewish but I was always proud. I was never afraid to stand up for myself the same way my grandfathers did when they were alive. I also got a lot of love from certain people. My friends often said “Lou ain’t white, he’s Jewish.” When I was young that phenomenon made me feel accepted.
JM: Is being a Jew important to you? Please explain.
AL: Absolutely. Although I am not religious, being Jewish is a big part of my identity.I wouldn’t want to be anything else. A part of me feels very special to be a part of something so ancient and strong!
JM: What do you do for beats?
AL: My brother Legacy from the Dead Game video, he also produced the track, and my dawg Damian. Both childhood friends and both great producers. Other than that I jack other peoples beats for my mixtapes.
JM: Do you play any instruments?
AL: No, but I can sing.
JM: What is your favorite city?
AL: Vegas is the shit, NYC is mind blowin, Atlanta is beautiful, Beacon is quaint, but Id have to say I’m the most at home in Albany.
JM: Have you been to Israel?
AL: I had the opportunity to go when I was younger but I was so rapped up in my own chaotic life to accept the offer. Now i regret it. I do plan to go one day as I have family in Israel.
JM: Do you know what tribe you are from? Levi, Judah?
All I know is my grandmother was a Cohen.My family came from Russia, Lithuania, and poland to the united states in early 1900.
JM: Do you pay attention to what is going on with Israel?
To be truthful I hardly watch American news or Tv at all for that matter.I am behind my people 100%, though,I would really like to visit Israel and see it for myself.
JM: What’s coming up for you?
Well I sent Necro my Cd i havnt heard back fro him yet.i kinda want o do a song or two with phsycological.im supposed to be touring with Gym class heroes next summer. Right now its about sellin cds and tryin to get more shows
JM: What’s your favorite piece of musical equipment?
AL: Microphone hands down.
JM: Which one of your songs do you like the most and why?
AL: Their are so many that I love but iI would have to say Only Human, because it was from the heart. I listen to it for inspiration and it reminds me that I can do, it if he can do it. I also like Electricity, its the opposite of Only Human, but somehow has the same effect.
JM:Have you been in the media yet, and if so, how so?
AL: Well right now The PETA people are on my ass.
JM: Are you a spiritual or religious person?
AL: Definitely spiritual, not religious, for some reason I only pray when I’m High though (4:20).
JM: How and where can people listen to your music and watch your videos?
AL: http://MYSPACE.COM/ALBANYLOU
http://www.youtube.com/user/ALBANYLOU
JM: Where can people buy your music?
AL: http://MYSPACE.COM/ALBANYLOU I have a paypal. Other than that, come to Albany and I’ll sell you one personally.
JM: Who made your videos?
AL: I made every single one! I must say that for the limated resources I have they came out Damn good. All I have is a digital camera SRAIGHT RAW !
JM: Any shoutouts?
AL: First of all JEWISH MAYHEM MAGAZINE!!! Second of all my Mother (the strongest woman alive!) my Father, my Son who is my everything and my Fiancé, and of course everyone that I consider family!! .
Infinite love
Thanks,
Lou
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Adam Sky: A Modern Day Tattooing HebrewThe traditional manner to becoming a professional tattoo artist is to find a working professional tattoo artist that is also a master at tattooing and to shmooze him/her into taking you on as his/her apprentice. To explain the shmoozing and the process of apprenticing-tattooing is entire article unto itself, but suffice it to be said, that being taught how to tattoo by the right person or people in the right tattoo studio with the right working atmosphere is like someone else in another field learning at esteemed elite learning institutions MIT or Harvard or Oxford or Israel’s Teknion. Not every tattoo apprenticeship is created equal and some apprentice tattoo artists that are taught by the tattoo world’s elite tattoo artists have serious advantages over other apprentices who learn from average tattoo artists. Adam Sky is a Jewish tattoo artist who learned how to tattoo from a master tattoo artist years ago, and he has since worked his way tattoo by tattoo to becoming a world class tattoo artist of international repute.
JM: Where were you born?
AS = In a hospital, weren’t you? I think it was Toronto…..
JM: Where did you grow up? What high school did you attend?
AS = I grew up in Toronto more or less, and I went to a variety of high schools although I was usually expelled from a new school every year. My parents on my mother?s side are gypsies. They taught me to steal (mostly pick pocket) and they insisted that I steal from other student?s lockers. I was in trouble with the law a lot as a kid. I hit a kid with a flaming 2X4 once and that was the last straw for me at high school. It was too bad because I was going to an art vocational school and getting good grades aside from my regular truancy.
JM: What is your Hebrew name?
AS = I don?t have a Hebrew name, but I was yelled at a lot in Hebrew….dads who caught me with their daughters….they called me a lot of names in Hebrew! You should ask them. I dated Rachael Rosen (daughter of Harry Rosen, as in Harry Rosen Clothes) when I was 14. Because my father?s name is Reichmann (as in the Toronto/New York Reichmann family), Rachael was excited to introduce me to her father. Rachael?s boob was the first boob I ever touched. It was truly a remarkable Jewish boob. We made out under her Boy George posters and turned The Young and the Restless waaaay up so her parents wouldn?t hear. Little did she know that although Reichmann was on my birth certificate, I was raised by gypsies as I was the gypsy love child in a secret scandalous Jew/Gypsy afair. To this day, I still get ?fuck off? money from the Reichmann family to not go forward and name names.
JM: Are/were both your birth parents Jewish?
AS = Both my parents are Jewish although my mother is half Jewish, half Gypsy. My mother was my father?s fortune teller.
JM: Where were they born?
AS = In hospitals…..why do you keep asking that?
JM: : |
AS = )
JM: Where your grandparents from?
AS = My father?s side (Reichmann) is from Germany, specifically the Black Forest region. My Great Grandfather was famous for hijacking an airplane to escape Nazi Germany just before the War. The Reichmann family owned textile factories in Germany leading up to WWII. His factories were seized by the Nazis and my Grandfather had enough money to hire a plane to fly to Austria when he was just about to lose his company for good. He took his family and hijacked the plane and had it flown to England. The rest is history that?s widely available in modern Canadian/American Jewish history books. My grandmother?s side is very poor Romanian/Polish Gypsy stock.
JM: Did you go to Hebrew, religious school?
AS = No, I was too busy trying to pick pockets. If I didn?t steal enough, my mother?s boyfriend would lock me in the trunk of his Cadillac for days at a time. My father?s family set aside money for me to go to Hebrew school but my parents secretly spent it on livestock for our circus shows.
JM: Did you celebrate anything Jewish growing up?
AS = I was forced to join the circus at one point. My mother?s boyfriend was in serious gambling debt so he sold me and my sisters to the circus. True story! I was forced to perform with Scamp the Wonder Pig. No shit you should have seen the tricks that Scamp did! Her trainer was this Carney freak named Harold. He was this old dude, but he had that pig dialed in. I tried my hand at working with the pigs, but it didn?t work out. I got fired for hitting on the boss? girlfriend. Hey, you know? Oh, so no I didn?t really celebrate many holidays, although I used them as an excuse to get out of doing work at the circus. No pig feedings on the high holidays and Saturdays, you know? You ever seen a pig in a tu-tu? That shit is funny! Although I always appreciated the irony of a Jew working with a pig, even at that young age.
JM: Have you traveled much?
AS = With tattooing, I have been around the States, Canada, and parts of Europe….hey; did you know that European women don?t shave their bits? Nasty! But you can phone up a hooker in Amsterdam and she will even bring you pizza and a bag of pot and even groceries!
JM: What were your artistic influences and what is your art background?
AS = My parents encouraged me to go to art school as early as 10 years old. I would reproduce my favorite comic book heroes all the time and I think they saw a future in art forgery that they could capitalize on. They had me forging cheques pretty early on. I liked art school because I could draw nude models and some of them were even pretty. I got thrown out of art school for pleasuring myself in the supply closet between classes. The models thought it was cute but the school director didn?t appreciate it. I got thrown out of 3 art schools in Toronto by the time I was 15. By the time I was in high school I was regularly failing my art classes as I found them not so challenging. Picking pockets was more challenging, as was stealing cars from the faculty parking lot. I once stole a vice-principal?s car and drove it as far as Halifax before being caught. I always appreciated Jackson Pollack. Early impressionism is my biggest motivator to produce tattoos.
JM: How did you come to learn how to tattoo?
AS = I was put in youth detention camp for stealing a car and driving it to Halifax when I was 15. My bunk mate encouraged me to learn how to tattoo as I was a very scrawny kid and an easy mark. I quickly applied my art background to makeshift tattooing. I love telling people I learned to tattoo in jail when they ask this question because it?s true! I only knew how to tattoo with soot scrapings from the cieling and a sharpened toothbrush for the first few years of my career. I eventually moved up to guns scavenged from Sony Walkman motors. Now I only use exclusive Buck Turgenson Irons. I?m one of the only tattooers in Canada to use these hard to find machines and my clients seek me out from all over because of this.
JM: Who were your teachers for tattooing?
AS = I got my first job at my first tattoo shop at Biff Cooper?s Tat Shack, Guns, Gold and Tackle shop on the Danforth in Toronto. I worked there until I was in my twenties after Biff turned the shop into a marijuana paraphernalia store. There was always an amazing assortment of characters in that shop and it was a primo learning experience all around. Plus you get a lot of cool shit that people pawn and never pick up. There was this old timer, famous Canadian tattooer who worked there named Chat Wooley. He was this half Japanese gentleman and although he spoke really bad English, he taught me how to fish, paint ?Precious Moments? figurines and be a better lover. Chat and I were an item for a long time. We?d go for long fishing trips on hot summer Ontario days. Those were probably the most joyous moments of my life. Chat had one eye, Biff had a peg leg and there was a girl who worked there named Cecelia who had one boob (the other was fake). I was the only person there with all of his body parts (knock wood).
JM: Where did you tattoo?
AS = Mainly in Vancouver at Sacred Heart and at New Tribe in Toronto. I worked for Crazy Ace at Way Cool a bit too. Now he has stories. I traveled through the U.S. and Europe as well under Crazy Ace?s wing. Ace once had sex on the hood of a rental car so hard that he broke the car. True story! When the car wouldn?t start, I though it was a biker plot to blow us up. I checked the car for IED?s (Improvised Explosive Devices). I?ve worked with a lot of great people.
JM: What was it like owning a tattoo studio?
AS = Fun and hell, all rolled into one. Its like being in an abusive relationship. That or getting a blowjob and a hug from your mom, all at the same time. It just feels wrong.
JM: Why did you sell it?
AS = After a few years of running my own shop, I got very disillusioned with tattooing. I left the tattoo shop to pursue a career in television. I was Johnny Depp?s stand in for two seasons of 21 Jump Street. The hours in working in television are killer and I eventually got fired for getting in a fist fight with Richard Dean Anderson (McGyver) about a video tape I had of him hitting on Catholic school girls. In the video, he?s so drunk, he falls into a snow bank and passes out. Richard Dean Anderson was such a hard core alcoholic that he?d sometimes film his scenes laying down because he was so loaded, he couldn?t stand. I gave up my TV career after getting offered to come back to Sacred Heart as an employee.
JM: Has your perception of being Jewish, the Jewish nation and of Judaism changed much since when you were younger?
AS = No. Judaism plays little to no role in my life or my identity. I strongly feel that organized religion is the most terrible invention ever devised by mankind and I encourage everyone to denounce it and live their lives in pursuit of their dreams with love for all human beings. The closest I come to agreeing with an organized ideology is Buddhism.
JM: Are you married, single, divorced? Any children? Is your wife/partner Jewish?
AS = Married and she is not Jewish. No children.
JM: Have you ever visited Israel?
AS = No.
JM: Would you ever consider visiting (again)?
AS = No. I try to steer clear of areas over run by religious fundamentalists.
20. Have you ever gone to a synagogue or celebrated a Jewish holiday?
AS = No.
JM: How do feel about anti semitism?
AS = I think they need a hug.
JM: Have you experienced much of it?
AS = Recently, everyone?s been calling me the Radical Jew at the tattoo shop – ever since someone from your office called me for the interview.
JM: What is your perception of anti semitism within the tattooing industry?
AS= It?s not really an issue.
JM: Have you had Jewish partners/ G.F.’s?
AS = Living in Vancouver, there are not many Jews to choose from and what Jews there are here, they really keep to themselves. I?m never invited to their parties. I had many Jewess girlfriends in Toronto growing up as I?d play the Reichmann card constantly. The parking lot of the Rabbinical Sisterhood Private School was a regular parking spot for my I-ROC as a teen. I think in the States, I-ROC?s were called Z28?s.
JM: How did you come to set up tattoodles?
A = I realized a consumer need. People kept asking where they could find tattoo designs online….well…..
JM: Did you have financing?
AS = Hell no. 100% me. Tattoodles was launched on $11,000 in 2001. We?re now the Web?s largest and most comprehensive tattoo site, selling over a half a million dollars in subscription sales every year. We have two employees and two computers. We?re keeping it real.
JM: How have you been able to make tattoodles a success?
AS = Being a reputable tattoo artist was a big part of it. Tattoo oriented businesses started by people who are not actually tattooers tend to crash and burn as they aren?t on the front lines with the tattoo artists and clients every day.
JM: What do you do for a living?
AS = I tattoo and run Tattoodles, and on the side I play harmonica in a jazz fusion band. I like to ride my motorbike up in the hills and play harmonica to relax. Stay with me people……
JM: What do you know of the Jewish conspiracy?
AS = I pay my Army of ZOG dues every month.
JM: How do you feel about the notion that Jews comprise less than 1% of the worlds population, and Israel is one of the smallest nations on Earth demographically, yet Jews and Israel are in the news disproportionately than their numbers suggest that they should be?
AS = The same way I feel about battered children that grow up to batter their own children.
JM: Do you like Gefilte fish?
AS = White fish am the debil.
JM: Have youever eaten cous cous or smoked a nargila?
AS = Lamest question ever.
JM: : |
AS = )
JM: What Hebrew or Yiddish words do you know?
AS = Only the bad things that fathers have yelled at me as I was running down the street holding my pants up……..its all a blur.
JM: Thank you Adam Sky
AS = Truly, Adam Sky
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In the beginning of online communication everything was real slow and basic. It was a time when only text and a few colors were possible to be sent back and forth online. One of the important facets of the online communication was the ability for users to identify themselves with some type of unique icon, name or identity but this was determined by the might and ability of the computer hardware and also the speed in which it was able to be transmitted over a phone line.
As computers became bigger and better and the internet became more and more accessible, mainstream and affordable, it was possible to send and to receive heavier file sizes. What this resulted in was larger and more complex types of imagery and icons were able to be used to identify oneself uniquely. In chat rooms and in discussion forums users were always prompted to display an image or a picture that was supposedly represent your profile to other people. The first version of images to be used were called JPEGs, pronounced J-Peg, which is an acronym that stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.
Then along came a company called Compuserve and they invented a new type of file compression and encoding called a GIF, pronounced Jiff. The major advantage of GIFs was that images could be animated, transparent and/or interlaced. An animated GIF is a image without sound that carries several frames and these frames play one after another when the image is viewed, creating the effect of animation.
GIFs revolutionized the online communication experience because they allowed for more personalization of a user’s online identity as well as the simple fact that you could create animations, so the end result of this was an explosion of cartoonized gifs. It got so bad that soon every website on the internet was inundated with cheezy gifs making them nauseating to see all of the time, however eventually a backlash developed against them and they disappeared almost completely from view.
Then along came a company called Macromedia who released Flash, which was a full blown animation program designed for the internet. Flash revolutionized everything once again, but most websites and in particular website forums and chat rooms did not allow for Flash to be used as icons, only GIFs and JPEGs. The GIF all of sudden reemerged from it’s grave.
Eventually video editing and computers melded together and became affordable which enabled artistic types of people to encode video parts as GIFs. What this resulted in was a digital art form unto itself called ani-gifs, which is short for animated GIFs. AniGIFs can be quite large files depending upon how many frames it has and how many colors it uses and so it is only in the few years that serious aniGIFs have become usable as common features on websites and such. One of the funniest phenomenons to emerge from aniGIF making and video capturing is the phenomena of digital artists taking an existing anigif and tweaking it so that it fits into another context.
In this feature I would like to present a few aniGIFs and their various morphs that they have endured over the years. The final result of aniGIF tweaking is a hilarious and very entertaining art and peculiar medium which I hope you enjoy. The first aniGIF is a video capture of a overweight child with some sort of issue or problem or condition or simply having a happy attack.
This is what some saavy digital artist turned the child into, but it did not stop here.
It became quite political.
There are a few more variations which I will append to here when I find them, but let us move onto another example.
Here is a video capture turned GIF of a casting call for martial arts performers.
Hilarious. Just fucking priceless! This dude is infamous now just like that orthodox Jewish kid who on American Idol, smashed his face onto the ground while executing what was to be a brilliant move, I think.
But then along came Laserhead, some guy who tweaked existing aniGIFs by adding his character laserhead into the picture.
Here is another example of Laserhead inserting himself in an otherwise funny GIF.
Let’s take a look at another GIF. Here is The Governator of California from one of his movies.
Hilarious!
On a Jewish note, here is Rav Yehoshua Sofer otherwise known as the kung fu Rabbi and 2 examples of people chopping him up.
As more and more AniGIFs emrged a new style of aniGIFs came out known aniGIF Mashups, where sections of movies or television are mixed together in humorous manners.
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By Joshua Andrews & Dustin Herlich
Concert photos by Josh Meles – www.Meles.ca
Video Footage by Hebe-X
Audio of Necro interview done by Elayne Laken – www.nyceone.com
Special thanks to RIVIERA REGIME
www.NECROHIPHOP.COM
www.psychologicalrecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/necrohiphop
First, you take 100% pure, uncut, dope beats that will get you hooked like a junkie, coupled with witty lyrical rhymes about the most violent, gruesome, sick and twisted shit that life has to offer. Add in orgy-istic and sadistic sexual carnage and produce this into a symphonic and rhythmic hip-hop adventure and what you get is the music of Brooklyn, NY based death-rap juggernaut NECRO.
His lyrics have been described as “obscene”, “twisted”, “vulgar”, “pornographic” and “violent”, his beats and sound productions have been described as “100% pure, uncut dope” and he’s received godlike praises from his tens upon tens of thousands of fans for his rhythmic delivery and his unique voice. Many fans have even gone as far as to tattoo NECRO’s messages and imagery on their bodies.
His style of music, which he helped define, can be categorized as either death-rap or rap-metal. The mix of metal and hip-hop that he has formulated makes him a musical pioneer; settling new, uncharted territories in the music world. If you have never heard of the 30 year old rap music artist before then take a strong hint from us that anyone with a moniker like NECRO (as in necrophiliac – one who engages in sexual acts with the deceased) and true to life photos like the ones in this article, along with lyrics like: “Stab you in your face with a butcher knife that’s really long, I’ll make you feel this song, when I beat you down to it, I don’t care if I appear wrong kid, I’ll do it” - from his song Murder Your Life, is someone that you should take very seriously indeed; love him or hate him.
If we had to give you examples of, or to make comparisons of other musicians and bands to NECRO, well, we are not going to. Instead we’re just going to piss you off and say that NECRO’s music sounds like NECRO’s music and you can make your own judgment and form your own opinions after watching his videos here, courtesy of NECRO and Youtube.com. Were you to read about this extreme dude who calls himself NECRO in any other media other than Jewish Mayhem it would probably never occur to you that the self-made, up and coming music producer, death-rap artist and independent record label owner, is a Jew, a Heeb, a Yid, one of the tribe of Judah, that is of course until you learn that his real name is Ron Braunstein and that his parents are Israeli.
NECRO is not a new phenomena or seasonal novelty that has just been discovered; he has been doing his thing in the underground hip-hop world for over 15 years now, building his career and fan-base systematically and methodically. A recent KOCH Entertainment Distribution press release stated concisely: “NECRO started his own record label called Psycho+Logical-Records in 1999 when he was only 23. His first disc, “I Need Drugs”, sold a few thousand units. In 2001, NECRO struck a deal for his second album, “Gory Days”. This album sold over 30,000 copies with pretty much no no touring and very little promotion. From 2002 through 2003, Necro released a CD/DVD special edition of “Gory Days”, the porno “Sexy Sluts”, a compilation album and his first mixed CD. His third solo album, “The Pre-Fix For Death”, released in 2004, featured the first hybrid between real hip-hop and real metal. 2005 saw the release his sex-themed album “The Sexorcist”.
Expanding Psycho+Logical-Records catalog, he produced solo albums for all three MC’s of the critically acclaimed underground hip-hop group NON PHIXION. These releases included his brother Ill Bill, Sabac, and Goretex. He also produced an album with hip-hop artist and hype man Mr. Hyde, and put together the “Circle of Tyrants” album, a super-group featuring Necro, Ill Bill, Mr. Hyde, and Goretex. In the following year, Psycho+Logical-Records released instrumental albums for nearly every one of the past albums Necro produced. Necro’s forthcoming CD “Death Rap” will be released via KOCH this fall.”
NECRO has also directed and self-produced four of his own videos; “187 Reasonz Y”, shot on super 8mm in black and white (1997); “The Devil Made Me Do It”, shot on 16mm film in color; “I Need Drugs” music video shot on High 8 in color (2000); and even the adult film “Sexy Sluts: Been There, Done That” (2003). One thing in particular that NECRO has done in order to make a name for himself and to set himself apart is that he directed and produced (and appeared in) his own XXX film. As mentioned above, the 2003 film “Sexy Sluts: Been There, Done That” comes complete with a hardcore fuck scene featuring the super hot and super slutty, former Penthouse Pet, Lanny Barbie.
NECRO told Jewish Mayhem, “On my Circle of tyrants album…I did a song with the drummer from Sepultura and I have a guy from the group metal band Testamental on lead solos on the metal tracks. I did a track with drummer Vinny Appice who was the drummer of Black Sabbath in the Eighties and in the group DIO. So I mean I work with metal dudes, plus I play rythym and bass myself. I was always very metal influenced, since I was twelve years old I was playing death metal.”
Up until 2005 NECRO worked like a logical psycho, non-stop, recording new material and pushing his own artistic limits further and further until mid-year when he launched a 16 city North American concert tour with Toronto based gangster rap duo Riviera Regime opening up for him; both Klee and Benny from RR are ex-IDF soldiers. Necro told Jewish Mayhem before his tour, “I dropped like 10 albums in 17 months. I did a lot of work. Now I gotta spend some time on the business. I did a lot of music, and now I need to take care of some other things. I do a lot, but you really can’t do everything at once. I’m chilling with the recording, but it’s all in my mind. I’m getting things ready. I’m listening to shit so I can get inspired.”
So what does NECRO listen to in order to get inspired by or to chill out to, according to NECRO, he doesn’t’t listen to a lot of hip-hop. “I’m really more into listening to Metallica, Pantera, death metal, stuff like that. I listen to metal for my inspiration.” This influence definitely shows up in his music, which blends metal and rap. His unique blend is what keeps the reviews glowing and the larger and larger crowds coming to his shows, but certainly having droves of nubile, sexy, barely legal women choosing to come up on stage to dance during songs and in many cases, to voluntarily strip on stage makes NECRO’s shows an over the top, fun festival of debauchery.
As he put it “I always move forward, I always move up. Regardless of whether or not you like me or not, I’m here, and I’m going places.” Unlike many Jews in entertainment who have historically tried to gentilize their names and identities in order to earn the goyim’s love, as we call it, NECRO in contrast makes no apologies for what he does, or his opinions. “I’ve never been ashamed (about being a Jew) of who I am, even when I was young.” He adds “It’s how I am. I’m not really religious, but it’s my culture. You say something bad about it and you’ll get slapped in your face.” Unlike many Jews who boast such bravado and boast about standing up for the honor of our nation, NECRO has smacked his fair share of big mouths in actuality.
http://www.jewishmayhem.com/video/whosyourdaddy.flvWho’s Your Daddy – Toronto
Ron Braunstein aka NECRO is definitely not your typical Jew in many regards as you can see. Think about it, besides Matisyahu and the Beastie Boys, just how many other Jews are successful rappers on an international scale, and then ask yourself just how many of those rappers are anything even remotely as threatening and menacing as NECRO is? Now to play devil’s advocate, by whose and what standard do we measure NECRO’s success with? Well for starters, unlike 98% of the musicians out there, NECRO has not sold any rights for a single product of his to anyone, and he now has many CDs and merchandise to sell. Therefore when he says he sold 100,000 CDs and 10,000 shirts, because he owns and controls everything from the production to the business end of distribution, promotion and marketing, he makes far, far more dough per unit than any artist signed onto any label. We consider that pretty damn successful generally speaking and in our opinion that makes him a successful artist and a pretty savvy businessman.
It may be of no suprise for you to learn that before NECRO was dealing CDs of his music he was dealing drugs to the level that as he says on his myspace page, “he even made up business cards for friends to page him. While he was successful with dealing, the day he got paid $3,000 for 1 beat was the moment that he realized there was a less risky way to make a living.” No doubt, the lessons that he learned from hustling on the street propelled him.
NECRO is certainly not your typical Jew in the entertainment industry for that matter as well. What we mean by that is that too many Jews in the entertainment business know more about Jesus than about Judah and they identify more with Buddah than they do with Torah. In contrast, while NECRO does not wear his wear his ethnicity on his sleeve or include it into his art as a gimmick, NECRO is proud of his heritage and is very pro-Israel and very much into the concept of being a smart, savvy and tough Jew.The late Jewish leader Rabbi Meir kahane would have phrased NECRO’s style as, ” a Jewish head behind a Jewish fist”. NECRO is very aware of who he is and what his roots are and where he wants to go in life.
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Murder Ya Life – Toronto
We asked him in 2005 how he felt about Jews in the music business who are either on stage or behind the scenes and if he receives any preferential treatment because he is a Jew, to which he replied, “I don’t get no fucking help, I get no help from no Jews.” We asked him to elaborate on this to which he replied, “Here’s the funny fucking thing, I am one of the proudest Jews. Now when I say that I am a proud Jew…that means that I’m not some douchebag that uses it as fucking gimmick. Ya know what I am saying? I’m not here to say that (Sarcasm) Ooooh I’m Jewish, I’m going to rap about being a Jew. That’s a fucking gimmick to me. I am a Jew because I was born a Jew and mother is a Jew, and I go and celebrate Shabbas with her, and we eat chicken cutlets and I love chicken soup and I love my grandmother rest in peace from the Holocaust, because I am. It’s not a fucking gimmick.”
NECRO has numerous lyrics in his massive repertoire of songs that refer to his and his older brother Bill’s tough childhoods and what it was like for them growing up in the projects of Brooklyn, but not in a specific Jewish manner. It would be incorrect to define or classify or to label NECRO as a “Jewish rapper” because he does not rap about being Jewish or about Jewish matters nor does he use middle eastern motifs in his music whatsoever, NECRO is a Jew who does rap really, really well, whether you like his music or not. If you did not know that he was a Jew and nothing stood out from his music as Jewish, you would not then label him as a Jewish rapper, but rather a white rapper.
When NECRO was referring to a “douchebag that uses it as fucking gimmick”, only one particular Jewish rapper comes to our minds, the Jewish national embarrassment and literally public traitor to the Jewish people, NYC based Aviad “50 Shmekels” Cohen ( a nauseating disingenuous parody on Fitty Cent). 50 Shmekels as we call him, inexplicably exploded off of the bar mitzva circuit and onto the mass media a few years ago and was portrayed as something new and exciting and worthwhile, when all he was in reality was a completely studio created musician, a below average performer and just a general, all around big mouth with an even bigger ego. Aviad’s Shmekels were eventually laughed away by one and all, but not before he earned some serious, choice media attention by everyone from Heeb magazine to Israel’s national newspapers and made some undeserved dollars for his shmekels CDs. Aviad eventually had a complete nervous breakdown because of the humiliation and embarrassment that he brought upon himself and his poor family and to hip hop, he explained on his website not too long ago, but then he found Christianity. Yup, Aviad actually publicly converted to Christianity and has since become a full blown, fanatical, arrogant, mouthpiece for the insidious and anti-Jewish, Christian movement, Jews for Jesus. Where is that lighting bolt when ya really want it?
We asked NECRO how did he come to transition and fuse metal to rap-hip hop? What inspired him? “In the projects you’d hear hip hop, it was just like a culture in the projects itself. I just remember just being a kid and being into metal and at the same time hearing hip hop, it was almost the same to me and I never really separated it really in my mind. There was also a station called U68 that would play one video after another. One video you’d see a Queen video, then you’d see Beastie Boys, then you’d see Anthrax, then you’d see RUN DMC …so…we were just being brainwashed like dope. I taught myself how to play. I would pick out sings and shit ya know because I basically had good ears and I was actually able to pick out songs at such a young age and kinda pick it out. I am not technically a good player, but yet technically I am a great player. I can’t really tell ya the chords and the notes, but I can sit down and play parts of technical and insane rhythm shit on guitar. I consider myself a great writer. I’m really dope on bass, like a 70′s bass player, ya know, straight outa of a fuckin 70′s record. When I say 70′s record, I’m talking about 70′s funk, jazz fusion…ya know. I’m talking David Axelrod type shit which is like the type of shit shit you’d see in 70′s movies, ya know, the funky hill shit. I’ll write the craziest shit. I consider myself more head music. I like people to kick the fuck back, in their crib, and then put my shit on and listen and analyze it.”
NECRO has since played shows in England for the first time and has recently announced upcoming shows in Australia for the first time with Riviera Regime opening up for him. NECRO was a featured performer on this summer’s Sounds of the Underground tour, both of which can be attributed to NECRO’s signing a serious distribution deal back in June of 2007, with KOCH Entertainment Distribution. They announced in a Press release in June “that it has signed an exclusive distribution deal with Psycho+Logical-Records. Under this agreement, KOCH is the exclusive physical and digital distributor of the label in North America. NECRO had this to say about it, “We are proud to present and be a part of the KOCH family, since KOCH is making so many moves in the indie game, basically turning the indie world into a major game and leveling the playing field. KOCH had the best situation to offer as a distribution partner so we decided to work with them. We feel they see our vision and we will fit well in their business model at retail.”
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Bury You With Satan – Toronto
“We’re very excited to be working with Psycho+Logical-Records,” commented Eric Lemasters, VP Business Development for KOCH Entertainment. “As KOCH continues its domination of the urban market, Psycho+Logical and Necro’s releases will complement our efforts in that genre and the added marketing crossover potential into the metal scene is a unique situation that will only add to their value.”
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Get On Your Knees – Toronto
NEW NECRO ALBUM – DEATH RAP – IN STORES SEPT. 11TH!
FEAT. SCOTT IAN OF ANTHRAX, MARK MORTON OF LAMB OF GOD, DAVE ELLEFSON OF MEGADETH, BRIAN FAIR OF SHADOWS FALL, HARLEY FLANAGAN OF THE CRO-MAGS, MIKE SMITH OF SUFFOCATION, STEVE DIGIORGIO OF DEATH/SADUS, ADAM JACKSON OF TWELVE TRIBES, RAY ALDER OF FATES WARNING + ILL BILL & MR. HYDE
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Necro Show Highlights – Toronto
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