Posts Tagged: Auschwitz
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The Rapping Holocaust Survivor. Yes, The Rapping Holocaust Survivor.

Brace yourself. The endlessly, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly fascinating phenomenon of people who you wouldn't expect to rap actually rapping is back for another go. This one's somehow even better and worse than previous iterations. Sigh. Here's Der Spiegel:

The sound is a familiar one: driving beats, austere rhymes, forceful vocals supported by female backup singers. Standard hip hop, it would seem. And yet, something doesn't seem quite right. The lyrics-some are Yiddish, others Hebrew, still others Italian. And then there's that voice. It's certainly too old to be coming from a hip hop artist, isn't it?

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Yes, They Stole The Auschwitz Sign

A Jew: They stole the Auschwitz sign?? Me: Yup. A Jew: Oh girl. Me: For real. A Jew: This feels like a Bloomberg plot to me. Me: Wait. MIKE Bloomberg? You mean, like, he wanted to install it over New York City? A Jew: Exactly! Me: Um. Too soon.