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Prodezra’s Hip Hop Chasidism

  Check out the interview Prodezra did with “The G-d Project”, filmed at Limmud in Atlanta      

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Mayanot Insider’s Alum of the Week

  Reuben Formey, aka Prodezra Beats, is one of the veterans of Mayanot.  Old school.  And he has brought the lessons from Mayanot all the way into his rap and hip-hop life.  He even included a song about Mayanot in his latest album. See the...

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Exclusive Interview with Shemspeed

Shemspeed are big Prodezra fans, as his was the first beat we chose for the first of the DeScribe & Y-Love collabrative singles. When we finished the song, “Change” it hit us that the track was made by 3 Orthodox Jews which broke down like...

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Shemspeed Album Review

Some of you know Prodezra from his production on “Change” the first single by DeScribe & Y-Love. For those of you not familiar check out the video here. I still remember when I first heard that beat, it had his voice going over it saying...

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Savannah Now: Jewish, black, hip hop performer

If Reuben Formey were 10 years younger, he might be hitting the road, sleeping in his car and getting as much stage time as possible. He might be spending his days and nights on the phone, networking and looking for clubs and radio stations willing...

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Yo Yenta: The Interview

There’s been much ado in the press recently about Shyne, the hiphop artist who served an eight year prison sentence after his involvement in 1999’s infamous New York Sean Combs/J.Lo nightclub shooting. The former gangster managed to keep his career alive while in lockdown, but...

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Pop Music with a Sacred Mission from Jewish Independent

Chassidic musicians blend secular with religious, creating fusion genres in their wake. NICHOLAS PAVLICH If you have ever been to a Chabad-Lubavitch shul, or any Chassidic synagogue for that matter, you are likely familiar with traditional Chassidic music, based on the niggun, tunes that are...

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Prodezra featured on COLLive

  Check out Prodezra on COLLive and post your thoughts about his single with Nosson Zand here.   Also check out what people are saying about his Rosh Hashanah video Shofar Callin’ here.        

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Review of “Until When” by Yeshiva University

By Harry Portman YU Commentator In a market of Jewish music where some popular albums have begun to merge together in a stagnant mix of bouncy pop and blasting brass, Prodezra, a.k.a. Reuben Formey, has materialized as a welcome change. Formey, who grew up in...

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Interview with Israel National News

Check out an exclusive radio interview with Israel National News: