"Seeing as I’m Jewish and today is Rosh Hashana (I’ll save you a Google search—it’s the Jewish new year), I figured I’d talk something Judaism-related here. Add the fact that J. Cole’s 'Villematic' has already hopped in rotation as one of my favorite songs right now, and I decided to touch on some lyrical references to Judaism in hip-hop. They pop up every now and then, and my only real complaint is that we (hip-hop) aren’t creative enough with these yet. Cheap… Rich… Lawyers… That’s about the extent of it.
So for the (Jewish) New Year, let’s step our game up, and have the next reference to Jews or Judaism be a little more creative. This might mean that there’s gonna have to be some studying of the Talmud or the Book of Job to really bring out the best, but I think someone’s got it in ‘em.
So the most overused Jewish stereotypes in hip-hop no particular order…"
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