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Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz hosted Hasidic rapper DeScribe for his video launch. The video, “Harmony” is a Hip Hop Music Video and is being endorsed by Black and Jewish Community Leaders as a ground breaking Tool for Unity and Racial Harmony in Brooklyn.

Borough President Hosts DeScribe for Video Launch

Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz hosted Hasidic rapper DeScribe for his video launch. The video, “Harmony” is a Hip Hop Music Video and is being endorsed by Black and Jewish Community Leaders as a ground breaking Tool for Unity and Racial Harmony in Brooklyn.

On Monday, August 3, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz hosted a press conference at Borough Hall, at which DeScribe (born Shneur HaSofer), Crown Heights’ Hasidic Hip Hop and R&B artist, premiered his “Harmony” music video, which celebrates diversity, understanding and harmony among the Crown Heights’ African American and Jewish communities.

The event was presented in collaboration with heads of the Crown Heights community and Shemspeed, an independent recording label and artists’ promotional agency based in Crown Heights, and Marley Coffee, owned by Bob Marley’s son, Rohan Marley, which helps promote and support environmental and social justice causes, including aiding Jamaica’s poor communities and “going green.”

“I have always believed that music, like sports and food, brings communities together,” said BP Markowitz. “I applaud DeScribe for creating the ‘Harmony’ song and music video, for celebrating Brooklyn’s diversity and for reminding us all that, overwhelmingly, Brooklynites live side by side in peace. Mazel tov!”

Photo by Kathryn Kirk

In photo (left to right): Erez Safar, CEO, Shemspeed; Rabbi Shia Hecht, chairman of the board, NCSJE; Yehuda Ceitlin; Rohan Marley, CEO, Marley Coffee; DeScribe (Shenur HaSofer); BP Markowitz; Dr. Richard Green, CEO, Crown Heights Youth Collective (CHYC); Dr. William L. Pollard, president, Medgar Evers College; Zaky Tamir, chairman, board of Crown Heights Jewish Community Council (CHJCC); Rabbi Eli Cohen, executive director, CHJCC

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35 Comments

  • In The Biz

    Great Song. Great Video. Great Production. Great lip-syncing by the Nekaivos. Bring on the Tznius Patrol. Luv it!

  • love love love iit

    i really like it… and the tznius is not horrible for ppl that dont have to be tznius

  • what???

    what the hell is this??? this is supposed to be jewish? definitely not something jews should listen to

  • POTZAYID

    CHLUUL HASIM CHLUL LUBAVITZ POSHT FARSMET DEM REB
    AND YOU POST IT OCH AND VAEE

  • Jewish Girl

    So, is this what the world has come to?
    To have respect, do I have to give up being me, and become You?
    Do I have to rap so that you don’t attack?
    Do I change my name from Sofer to DeScribe
    In order to stay alive?
    To prevent a riot do I have to become
    A Jew that looks like a street bum?
    Is this peace? That I become you?
    No!
    Accept me as I am, a Hassidic Jew
    Respect me and I’ll respect you.
    This rap impresses but a few
    Its shallow, silly and naive
    To believe
    That if I dance like them
    And sing their tunes
    That all will change and be like new
    That is not the way it works, its being tried before
    Respect means you accept me on my terms, and me on yours

  • hisbolelus

    First this, then the front pages of the newspapers with pictures of Chelsea Clinton and her new husband, totally love and harmony!

  • reader

    Hey #4, not all of us speak Yiddish. Unless that was a quote from Dr. Seuss (?)

  • huhuh?!?!?!?!?!

    Whats a Frum boy doing with girlss all around him!! some Tznious maybe?!?!?!

  • one from europe

    after watching it,where are the rabbonim mashpiyim etc,whats happening to lubavitch?
    with sorrow and pain

  • Hattitude Blackitude

    Hey hey ho yippee yey yippee yo.
    Everybody in the house say hey, HEY, say ho, HO, say yay, YAY, say, yo, YO!
    Chillin’ bro.

  • Disgusting

    im disturbed. for the sake of harmony why don’t you see african americans seeing avrahm fried style?
    why do jews always feel the need to imitate others?
    ughhhh
    this video is disgusting

  • oyvey

    it all begins with the badd hakall from 22 years ago who decided we should have mixed basketball games….i will never forget Yosel Motchkin screamin agains it. that was the Spielman Vadd Hakall.

    this is what we have 22 years later.

  • Jack

    Where is the harmony if the African American faces start disappearing toward the end of the video?

  • Sara

    I TOTALLY agree with Jewish Girl(#9)[Well writteen, too!!]. Why do JEWS have to act and sing like the non-Jews in order to get respect. What’s with Lubavitchers that they WANT to ‘sing’ rap and be cool and look like the non-Jews to feel accepted by them??!! Act like a frum Jew, refined and respectable, and let the non-Jews respect us for who WE are.
    We shouldn’t act like an imitation of THEM! When we act like THEM, they don’t appreciate us for who WE are; they only see that WE can BE COOL………

  • disturbed

    shocked is not the word!

    this bochur may have good intentions but has denigrated the name of lubavitch and the name of the Rebbe. Such a song is a violation of Chukas hagoy and not befitting any yid let alone a chossid.

    true pease and harmony only comes through keeping the ways of the torah – deracheha darchei noam vechol nesivoseha shalom – not through compromising our standards.

    shame on the website for publishing and shame on the community representatives who participated.

  • Oy vay

    Yes Jewish girl you got it.
    How about a chabad news site that caters to the young without the yerida! Need a place to go that is kosher interesting and would satisfy a chassidishe crowd!!!!

  • to everyone

    to everyone who thinks that this video is “disgusting” shmae on you this man is just saying how there should be peace and harmony between everyone regardless of their race and religion.
    and to the poepele that think that crown heights has “fallen” where are you getting this from you think that this video is causing it well you happen to be extremly mistaken.
    so all you ppl that have a problem with this please think before you talk because what your saying is complete ignorance and nonsense

  • annoyed with everyone

    i like how you ppl think that this music is bad and we shouldnt listen to it i guarentee you that there is plenty jewish music out there that is not either what you call 100%
    so if your complaining about the rapping we didnt ask you to watch it he means well and i dont think you people do

  • Why?

    What? Why do you need to use my bros Yeshiva for this ????? Is this what its supposed to be? no! why the mingling with the goyim? And the Chinese husband and wife? Why are we sucking up to the goyim?

  • a person

    First of all, #9, its not time for poetry! seacond, who said hes doing it 2 fit in w\ the non – jews? i hear that the purpose of jewish rapers, is 2 bring lost jewish souls back 2 its natioun!
    and u 2 #20, and every1 ellse who think the same way, if he were triying 2 fit in w\ the goyim, he wuld sing nonsence stuff, things that goyim sing!
    and #14,i dnt think he got girls 2 stand around him 2 admire him chas vesholom. he probably just got random ppl from the streets 2 b audience or something. so all of u, (except for SOME of u who mite make ence) lets have some dan lchaf zechus!

  • another jewish girl

    to #9:
    i dunno if u made that up or you got it from somewhere, but what u got there is a beautiful piece of work. I’m with you all the way :)

  • what????

    last time i checked the Rebbe said that a goy, respects a yid when like look like a YID, not some rapper!!!

  • Not so negative!

    A lot of commenting goes for not such a bad thought, for a world of peace and harmony. A pity Moshiach was not in the script!
    I am quite surprised that Mattisyahu ONE WORLD song and clip did not aroused so many negative reactions.
    But I agree that more Jewish pride in song ,in dancing and in clothing would have impacted the world in a more remarkable way.

  • Michael

    to #9. Jewish Girl
    geat piece you should def. go into copywriting!
    this music is not ment for us it is very good for kiruv and goyim

  • goshh

    you ppl disgust me the negative comments your making are sickening so stop bec u all make no sense
    your making as if this video is so terrible meanwhile its a making an impact on nit o0nly jews and non jew alike and an impact for the good so stop with all the negativity

  • someone that cares

    you could dis as much as you want but first of all you all listen to this beautiful music under your covers and you have got to admit he has got style and second of all he told me personally that he does not want any religious person and especially chabad to listen to his music so as far as i know my customers anybody that complained did it for “attention” and i do not think that good Jewish girls like you should be looking for attention in away like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!