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Will Rihanna Convert for Drake?
By Elliot Fox / September 1, 2009
The news is in: ex-Degrassi boy wonder and newfound hip-hop superstar Aubrey "Drake" Graham is a Jew! As seen in the video below with Peter Rosenberg of Hot 97, Drake flexes his Jewish muscles – he’s been Bar Mitzvah’d, grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in Toronto, celebrates Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, rocked yarmulkes in synagogue and even admits to skipping out on Hebrew school, like all good Jews.Â
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In 2006, Drake began his hip-hop career by self-releasing a mixtape called Room for Improvement via his website and MySpace page. In 2007, Drake became the first unsigned Canadian Jewish rapper to have his music video featured on BET when his first single, "Replacement Girl" was featured as the "New Joint of the Day" on April 30, 2007.
Since then he’s been featured on tracks with the likes of Lil Wayne, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z, Kanye West and more. After showing close affiliation with Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment, he officially signed with the the label in June, 2009. His first studio album, Thank Me Later, is expected to be released in 2010.
In other Drake celeb news, he has been spotted more than once "canoodling" with Rihanna in both NYC and LA. So the big question is… will Rihanna convert?
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Zeevico:
There’s a lot more to Judaism than stories in the Torah–like Midrash, Talmud, and the prayer book. And even those stories of the Torah are at least as magnificent as Greek myths and contain a code of ethics that’s astonishing–flaws and all. There’s a real sacredness to the mysteries of Judaism, a religion that’s more about questions than answers, and more about ethics than faith. I love Hashem, and I truly believe this is the BEST way to know Him; you can spread your opinions all you want, but you can’t take that away from me.
Also, prospernow’s comment doesn’t make him seem like a spammer at all. It was inflammatory and borderline racist.
Hey Tali: thanks for defending the faith; you seem like a good Jew.
Zeevico thank you for your input (I thought your "birds and the bees" was a little rude).
You wanted to know what attracted me to Judaism? Why? What attracted you to Judaism or were you born a Jew? Please also know that a lot of Jews of Color are also born Jewish.
It was a combination of things: I found out that I have Jewish roots, I love the spiritually of Judaism, and I took a class in college called "The Hebrew Creative Mind".
I’m not quite sure what exactly was your point or what you were asking me but I don’t know everything about Judaism but I’m learning on a daily basis. I was just answering someone’s question (real or not) without going into a detailed response.
Tali:
I’m not sure someone has had the internet version of the "birds and the bees" talk with you yet. So here goes.
See the link at the bottom of "prospernow"’s query? It means he’s a spammer. His questions are randomly formulated and only designed to gain enough legitimacy to make people think he’s a real human being. He’s just trying to sell you a toaster (or, more likely, discounted pharmaceuticals).
What attracted you to Judaism in the first place? I ask this seriously. Look, for example, at the Siddur. Where is the essential religious truth in finding out that God smote the Egyptians 50 times near the sea, and then 250 times, in addition to the original 10 plagues? Are we mean to cower in fear? Feel better because we’ve got some great backup in case of a Pharaonic mass enslavement (warning: discard after first use)? What have we learnt here, apart from the ability of our ancient rabbis to employ basic arithmetic?
Or take Genesis. Some Jews say: "it’s just a fable", mostly because it would be somewhat unrealistic to reject scientific theories on the origins of the universe; others stumble upon new and exciting ways to "find" the Big Bang in Genesis [using the powers of their imagination]; still more reject the Big Bang in its entirety and take a literal approach to Biblical interpretation. The trouble with saying "it’s just a fable", of course, is that it means the entirety of the Bible is, or could be, a fable–or at any rate that we await accurate scientific (or historical) confirmation of its accuracy. The basic response to this by religious Jews is "eh, it’s tradition." I find that a little infuriating.
You take a conversion class for a year and then you go before a beit din and then you immerse in the mikveh.
Ivanka Trump did that so she could marry her Orthodox husband.
Lots of people do that.
I did it and so do many people of color-it isn’t uncommon.
Please define hood rapper? His lyrics don’t have to talk about Judaism for him to be Jewish. I’m not into the hip-hop stuff I’m more of a rocker. But not all rap is bad.
How do you convert to be a Jew? Drake’s lyrics aren’t related to Jews at all…he’s basically a hood rapper. I don’t think that’s anything to brag about.
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