So, what do teens do when they are at a crossroads in life? Nowadays, they go to the studio to exercise their intrepid demons. As a rapper, Kosher is not elite yet, although it isn’t for a lack of trying. He’s also genuinely funny. Aside from his physical appearance, which is like ifwas doing a skit on Hasidic people rapping, he is also adept at poking fun at himself in the booth.
Sometimes he and his friend and fellow rapper Mofwea would go to Office Depot or Mo’s house and create flyers of Kosher’s face on it with ink. “We went to rich neighborhoods, like Coral Gables in Miami,” Kosher tells me with a smirk. “We would take them to gas pumps and people would be amazed, like: ‘What the fuck? There’s a Jewish rapper?’” contains a flurry of dazzling wordplay sure to scare your bubbie at Pesach.
Speaking of bigots: Growing up, anti-semitism, or “anti-dreidel” as Kosher calls it, was luckily seldom, but it happened enough for him to still vividly remember. “There’s people who would crack little jokes and say some Nazi shit. I tried to laugh at them because, at the end of the day, that shit is fluff. The goal is to change minds and views,” he says. But there was one time where he had to deliver a dose of righteous justice.