Drake Not Jewish Enough?

Is Drake in the midst of a kosher beef with Matisyahu?


February 18th, 2011
02:10 PM ET

Kosher Beef Between Two Rappers


By Mark Marino, Special to CNN

Forget the war of words between 50 Cent and Dr. Dre, and even Lil' Kim and Nicki Minaj — a new rap feud is about to begin between Jewish musicians Drake and Matisyahu.
In a new interview with TMZ, reggae rapper Matisyahu disses Drake as not being true to his roots.
"He's Jewish, but he's not representing Judaism," says the artist formerly known as Matthew Paul Miller.
"He happens to be Jewish, just like Bob Dylan happens to be Jewish, just like anyone happens to be Jewish. What I'm doing is really tapping into my roots and culture and trying to blend that with mainstream society and culture. So his being Jewish is just a byproduct, really. He's not representing that."
Drake, born Aubrey Drake Graham,

Matisyahu performs at a concert in 2009.

might disagree. The son of an African American father and a Jewish mother, he was raised in the heavily Jewish Forest Hill section of Toronto, went to a Jewish day school, and even had a bar mitzvah.
Today, he wears a diamond-studded Chai, a symbol of the Jewish word for life, and has his mother pressuring him to marry "a nice Jewish girl," according to Heeb magazine.
While it appears Matisyahu may not be down with Drake's Jewishness, he does admit that he admires his talent.
"Drake is pretty good, man. He's got his thing but it's different than what I do. It's a different type of thing. As an MC, he's got me," he told TMZ. But he adds, "He doesn't have the reggae thing that I've got."

 

2 Jewish rappers, I've been waiting on this fight my whole life..

 

marry a nice jewish girl?

how can his mom be such a dumb, close-minded mothafucka even after having Drake with a black man?:smt011

 

Lol at kosher beef

 

She wants to maintain the jewish line...

 

he should marry a Palestinian just to piss in her Hummus

 

That's IB's future husband.

 

LOL-ing:-D
That was funny!!!

 

Black Jewz need more love!!!:smt033

 

You know how the game goes...

She would have rathered a Jewish guy but they weren't on her like that so she ended up with a black dude.

 

This makes about as much sense as rappers rappin' about killin' fuckin' bitches and hoes..


...and then giving it up to the Almighty God for making it possible. Who gives a shit.

 

LoL.

 

I'm sure this is keeping Drake up at night. He gives two shits and a rat's ass

 

Well well well...

Look who showed up out of the clear blue.

 

She was probably just joking.

 

that's what it seems like...

I guess she's a scale-tipper then

yeah that cracks me up too

they bless god for giving them a vaunted platform to spew lyrical hatred that rhymes, to make money:smt119

 

hell yeah. I remember will smith and jada pinkett at an awards show and they were one of the presenters. they jokingly said the same thing. backhanded joke if you will.

I guess if you are going to beef then beef over something worth beefing over

 

that's why Eminem came at Will in one of his songs

'so what i have to curse to win a grammy' or something like that

Will Smith had some good cuts that didnt talk about killing people or anything

like 'Summertime' for example

stuff like that just doesnt get airplay now

it's all about bitches and hoes

 

yep and then jay z gets on oprah winfrey tries to justify the N-word.

he states " we took that word and took the sting out of it"

oprah replies " I dont use it because it is the last word a black man hears when he is being hung"

I stop using the N-word along time ago. ( I try not to use it)

black folks have lost their sense of blackness.

 

lol

im on the fence with nigga

i use it, but then i dont use it

i agree we took the sting out of it a bit, by putting it into common rotation (so much than even non-blacks use it with non-racial implications). Now you got hispanics calling each other nigga, and a few lost white hip-hop heads too.

BUT..on the flipside...i used to be on the receiving end of n-bombs in an offensive, racist manner and side with Oprah on it not being appropriate

i dunno