Gay White Jewish Male Rapper that is. Now there’s a start of a personal ad. I’d even stop for that one.

Andrew Singer is the nicest gay, Jewish, white rapper alive. This isn’t hyperbole. He also happens to be the only gay, Jewish, white rapper alive.

Singer, 25, now lives in Manhattan’s East Village, but his voyage began in Kensington, N.H., about an hour north of Boston. Singer, who attended Hebrew school in Portsmouth, N.H., sees Judaism as an intrinsic part of who he is.

“The music is for everyone and I don’t really rap about being Jewish that much. But I’m not going to act like I’m not Jewish,” said Singer, whose nom de mic is Soce the Elemental Rapper.

And indeed, in some of his songs, Singer will literally thrust Judaism to the foreground. A version of his song “Work/Play,” starts with the words “This is the Bar Mitzvah remix,” before heading into territory too sexually explicit to reprint in here. During live performances, at a pivotal moment in the song, he starts swaying as if in engaged in prayer and chanting over and over, “Today I am a man, Today I am a man.”

The Bar Mitzvah Work/Play remix combines a slow reggae-style beat with a classic Yiddish klezmer melody. “People love the Bar Mitzvah remix,” Singer said. “It takes them back to their youth when they went to their friends’ bar mitzvahs.”

Singer recognizes that his music is not always appropriate for all audiences. At a recent show in a synagogue before an older Jewish audience, he was unsure of how the crowd would respond to songs that were in equal measure Jewish and sexual. To avoid any unpleasantness, he said, he “broke out the violin and started doing a lot of classic Yiddish songs.” Though the response was generally positive, not everyone was thrilled. “There was this whole crew banging a table in the back waiting for the more nasty stuff. They had to come to one of my shows to hear that. I didn’t feel comfortable doing those raps in the basement of the Temple,” Singer said.

I don’t know of any other Jewish gay male rappers (do you?), but he certainly isn’t the only Jewish queer rapper out there.

Read the full article at Forward.com. Registration is required, but free.

For info on music and shows, visit Andrew’s website.

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