{"id":26072,"date":"2018-11-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26072"},"modified":"2019-02-28T09:57:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T14:57:53","slug":"j-rapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/21\/j-rapper\/","title":{"rendered":"J RAPPER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I\u2019m a<\/strong><\/span> J rapper &#8212; a Jewish rapper. I like hiphop, klezmer and all that stuff. Weird, because I\u2019m 70. I go to rap-offs and win. I can rhyme Yiddish, like <em>balebos<\/em> with <em>ball of fuzz<\/em>, and <em>mishega<\/em>s with <em>lift up the gas<\/em>. People like it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-26075 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hypno-klez-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"hypno klez\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hypno-klez-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hypno-klez.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>There used to be another old Jewish rapper &#8212; Murray Saul. (Yeah, I know there are young Jewish rappers, like Matisyahu and Ari Lesser.) Anyway, old Murray Saul would go on WMMS radio &#8212; this was in the 1970s &#8212; and screech about the exciting, impending weekend. Saul was Cleveland\u2019s answer to Allen Ginsberg but without the talent. Saul would just yell a lot. He was also a salesman; he sold radio ads.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I have<\/strong><\/span> a half hour\u2019s worth of material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a J rapper &#8212; a Jewish rapper. I like hiphop, klezmer and all that stuff. Weird, because I\u2019m 70. I go to rap-offs and win. I can rhyme Yiddish, like balebos with ball of fuzz, and mishegas with lift up the gas. People like it. There used to be another old Jewish rapper &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26072"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26081,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26072\/revisions\/26081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}