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Carne Masada: Quite Possibly the Very Best of Hip Hop Hoodíos
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Billboard, Carne Masada: Quite Possibly the Very Best of Hip Hop Hoodíos >>
With boasts like "My nose is large and you know I'm in charge," Hip Hop Hoodíos' Josh Norek and Abraham Velez became known on the Latin alternative scene as the bilingual answer to the Beastie Boys. It's not hard to imagine songs like "Kike on the Mic" starting out as dorm room shtick, but the Hoodíos outlasted that first drunken weekend by pairing their chutzpah with a righteous party mix that includes hip-hop, Cuban and Mexican rhythms, klezmer and Latin rock performed by members of indie groups like Ozomatli, Los Abandoned and Barcelona's Pinker Tones, as well as Frank London of the Klezmatics. "Carne Masada" (a painful play on "carne asada," grilled meat in Spanish), includes favorites of their cult following of Latino and Jewish fans like "Agua Pa' La Gente," "Raza Hoodía" and their version of "Guantanamera" refashioned as an urban immigrant anthem. On five new tracks, the Hoodíos' grooving siren call of the collectively maligned explores the Latin-Jewish historic connection beyond the dancefloor ("1492") and offers more of their blessedly silly rhymes ("Así Loncheamos! Two Matzoh Balls"). —Jonathan Cohen 06/09/09 >> go there
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