Jewish hip-hop has traditionally leaned heavily on parody, according to Judah Cohen, a professor of musicology and Jewish studies at Indiana University who wrote a 2009 academic article on the subject.

He has dissed Drake as вЂњan actor from Canada.вЂќ Shyne found Judaism while in prison and now lives an Orthodox life as Moses Levi. The only other non-white Jewish rapper of note is Shyne, the son of the prime minister of Belize and a former protege of Sean вЂњDiddyвЂќ Combs. Hip-hop star Shyne and Oleksandr Feldman, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and president of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee in Kiev, Ukraine. That kind of self-referential playfulness makes Drake a hero to a certain crowd. ThereвЂ™s also a post-bar mitzvah вЂњpartyвЂќ that gets wild, with guests chugging Manischewitz and rapper Lil Wayne joyfully smashing a skateboard into a table. In 2012, he released a music video for his song вЂњHYFRвЂќ that purported to be a вЂњre-bar mitzvahвЂќ that showed Drake rapping and praying in a Miami synagogue in front of family friends and music friends. Not only did he have a bar mitzvah himself, but in 2017 he threw a bar mitzvah-themed birthday party. Drake played up his Judaism in a 2014 skit on вЂњSaturday Night Live,вЂќ doing a satiricial re-enactment of his bar mitzvah in a wig and kippah, rapping вЂњIвЂ™m black and Jewish/itвЂ™s a mitzvahвЂќ over a klezmer clarinet.Д«ar mitzvahs seem to be a theme for Drake. ItвЂ™s not that his Jewishness is a secret. вЂњJewish men in particular really know Drake is Jewish - and love that,вЂќ said Alex Fraknoi, a San Francisco-based Jewish rapper. Some of his fans, though, are definitely in on it. While public musings over his ethnicity are not uncommon on internet forums, few fans apparently ask Google if heвЂ™s Jewish - it doesnвЂ™t even come up as one of the top 10 search results for the query вЂњIs Drake вЂ¦вЂќ? I feel like they might? Some people might know.вЂќ вЂњThey probably - hmm, IвЂ™m not sure,вЂќ mused Pifko, a senior at Jewish Community High School of the Bay.

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