1999
1999
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“’Rap is always about: Where am I fr...om? What’s my crew? Who are my peeps?,’ Josh Dolgin says. The statement seems odd considering Dolgin, twenty-eight, is a curly haired Jew with a face full of freckles who grew up on the Protestant outskirts of Ottawa, not in the burning ghettos of the Bronx. But his rap credentials are authentic, even though he speaks hip hop’s vernacular with intentional irony. As a teenager, Dolgin played keyboards in a gospel band but he was never entirely comfortable making music about Jesus.MoreLess
This ebook is just the start. Subscribe to The Walrus and have the best in long form journalism, fiction, poetry, and editorials every month.
Walrusmagazine.com/subscribe If you enjoyed post-apocalyptic Prince, you’ll love The Walrus profile of Montreal’s Socalled: A Jew Funk http://walrusmagazine.com/articles/2005.09-music-klezmer-music Josh Dolgin, a.k.a. Socalled, is Montreal’s leading mixer of klezmer and hip hop.
“’Rap is always about: Where am I fr...om? What’s my crew? Who are my peeps?,’ Josh Dolgin says. The statement seems odd considering Dolgin, twenty-eight, is a curly haired Jew with a face full of freckles who grew up on the Protestant outskirts of Ottawa, not in the burning ghettos of the Bronx. But his rap credentials are authentic, even though he speaks hip hop’s vernacular with intentional irony. As a teenager, Dolgin played keyboards in a gospel band but he was never entirely comfortable making music about Jesus.MoreLess
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