DeScribe
Shneur Hasofer is a Hasidic musician known as DeScribe. Hasofer's musical style has been characterized as "Hasidic hip-hop," "Hasidic rap" and "Hasidic R&B".
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- Name
- Shneur Hasofer (DeScribe)
- Born
- 1982
- Birthplace
- Melbourne, Australia
- Nationality
- Australia
- Occupation
- musician
- Fields
- dancehall
- Languages
- English
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Shneur Hasofer is a Hasidic musician known as DeScribe. Hasofer's musical style has been characterized as "Hasidic hip-hop," "Hasidic rap" and "Hasidic R&B".
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DeScribe (born 1982) is an Australian musician. The musician was born in Sydney.
Genres include dancehall. Languages used include English.
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• Name — Shneur Hasofer (DeScribe) • Born — 1982 • Birthplace — Melbourne, Australia • Years Active — Late 2000s-Present • Label — Modular Moods/Shemspeed • Website — YouTube Channel
Background
Background
Hasofer was born to a Chabad Hasidic family in Melbourne, Australia. Hasofer began his music career taking the stage name "DeScribe" and has been characterized as a "Hasidic rapper." Hasofer's music career began in New York in the late 2000s, releasing an EP called Harmony, and began collaborations with Matisyahu and Rohan Marley (son of Bob Marley). Hasofer released a duet with Matisyahu titled “Pure Soul” as part of a fundraising effort for the Friendship Circle, a non-profit Jewish organization which assists children with disabilities. Hasofer also collaborated with ex-Hasidic hip-hop artist Y-Love. Hasofer's music also took on an activist bent in promoting racial harmony between the Chabad Hasidim and African-American and Afro-Caribbean communities in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Hasofer released a song and music video titled “Harmony” with Rohan Marley, successfully recruiting local neighborhood leaders to participate in the video and a neighborhood campaign. The music video for Hasofer's song "Harmony" was dubbed "a groundbreaking tool for unity and racial harmony" by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz in commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots. Hasofer's other activities included teaching music recording and video editing to at-risk Hasidic teens in Crown Heights through a joint project with the ALIYAH Center in Crown Heights.
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Family
In 1998, Hasofer's family immigrated to the city of Rehovot in Israel while he was young. Hasofer's mother is a religious singer as well.
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- 1.Battegay, Caspar. Judentum und Popkultur: ein Essay. transcript Verlag, 2014.
- 2.Hasidic Rapping in Brooklyn, 20 Years After Crown Heights Riots - WNYC - New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News. WNYC.
- 3.DeScribing a plan to save the world. Jerusalem Post. May 15, 2011.
- 4.OSTERHOUT, JACOB E. Crown Heights rapper DeScribe utilizes Hasidic faith to produce beats, rhymes with hip-hop flair - NY Daily News. nydailynews.com. 12 April 2011.
- 5.Nagler-Cohen, Liron. When Hasidic rapper met Marley. Ynetnews. January 17, 2011.
- 6.Lyrics that Uplift - Rappers Who Found their Soul through their Music. www.chabad.org.
- 7.Line, Chabad On. 'Change' Has Come to Hip Hop. collive. 22 March 2009.
- 8.Giblin, Chris. Hasidic Rapper Promotes Racial Harmony In Crown Heights. City Limits. 5 August 2010.
- 9.Line, Chabad On. Crown Heights' Music Hub. collive. 9 January 2010.
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