"The Hebrew Mamita"
Some poetic “purim torah” from April 2003–still relevant… (a big hat tip to my dear friend Rebbe Meir)
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Woo-hoo a shout out on Jewschool….this is the hippest I’ve been since I snuck into a Dead show in Vegas.
Wow!
I enjoyed Vanessa’s rap moreso that the above “Mowed lawn” one. Perhaps I should hear it, rather than read it…
Vanessa…You Rock!
as a big def jam fan, and a jew to boot, i gotta admit that i was not such a fan of this poem when i saw it. it kinda seemed to me like an effort to play her jewishness as this pan-ethnic sensibility, ignoring the sensitive identity politics at hand…
based on the response and ovation she got, I imagine the audience seemed to enjoy it…
She is hot!
Why did she have to affect some sort of Latina accent, and called herself a Mammita?
Something tells me she’s not a Latin Jew, and that something is her use of a KRS-One quote.
She explains herself here.
She’s a Syrian Jew that chose Spanish Harlem over Ocean Parkway.