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Of the “HYFR” video, Director X has acknowledged that it was fun for him to make a video that breaks some cultural taboos. Take this video, for example, which parodies Wiz Khalifa’s “Black and Yellow” and made its way around the Internet last year.
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Drake’s video is only the latest to capitalize on the increasingly complex identities of blacks and Jews to make light-hearted videos and crack jokes about culture. WATCH JAY-Z’s ‘99 PROBLEMS’ VIDEO HERE: CAUTION, EXPLICIT LYRICSĭuring the civil rights movement, blacks and Jews became engaged in unprecedented alliances, and a new class of multicultural Jews of color was born. Acknowledging Rick Rubin, an influential record producer and the co-president of Columbia Records with a simple “You crazy for this one Rick,” he had everyone wondering who exactly it was that heavily bearded man riding around in his car for the “99 Problems” video. Jay-Z was one of the first to place a visual emphasis on one of the Jews that had previously been contributing to his music from behind the scenes. Historically, Jews have more been acknowledged for their behind-the-scenes roles bankrolling hip hop as record execs, supporting rappers as lawyers, and of course providing the ever-crucial chains and jewelry pieces, with enough shout-outs from rappers to make “Jacob the Jeweler” a household name. WATCH THE BEASTIE BOYS’ CLASSIC MUSIC VIDEO: ‘SABOTAGE’īut with a few exceptions like the Beastie Boys, Jews are relatively new to the hip-hop spotlight.
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Combined with the majority black demographic of hip-hop listeners in the ‘90’s, the fact that they were white made them outsiders enough. But it was also a secondary factor in their otherness they came up at a time when rap had long been virtually synonymous with the black American experience. It’s not that Jews are necessarily new to hip-hop: the Beastie Boys, for example, hold an important place in hip-hop history, and their Judaism was never a secret (“I’m a funky a** Jew and I’m on my way”).