European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse By Scott Benardes Cox news service s Hake your Tauchas . Rap the Ballad of Moisha Irving Jokin jews of its so humid As Kosher As they Wanna be yes they re Cookin Kosher rap songs from the Novelty album As Kosher As. They Wanna be on Kosher records by Miami based 2 live jews. Finally a Little Leavening or levity regarding the Oft sued threatened detained and arrested Miami rap group the 2 live Crew and its controversial album As Nasty As they Wanna be. As Kosher As they Wanna be is generally As clean As it could possibly be and is the brainchild and mated meat ticket of unorthodox jewish hams Eric Lambert 27, and Joe Stone 25, the two play the roles of immigrant octogenarian jewish rappers my Moisha and easy Irving who were kibitzing in rhyme before rap was born. 1 Lambert a native of new Orleans who has lived in Miami for about three years is a professional comedian. He has opened shows for the likes of Jay Leno and also appeared on Cable comedy specials. Stone has spent most of his life in Miami and developed a love for the music business becoming a songwriter and producer. Also an impressionist Stone reached the billboard charts several years ago with a Novelty record called Ronnie s rap a parody of president Reagan stones father Henry founded the now defunct but legendary to records . And the Sunshine band George Mccrae Betty Wright. The duo credits Lawrence Quot a fingers step Bratt for writing and playing much of the music. They say with tongues firmly in Cheek their disc jockey Quot scratching a sol Rabinowitz a certified Public accountant returned to his accounting business. Released about three weeks ago the record has sold 8,000 copies and is a. Shaping up to be a National Novelty hit. It has already been featured on mtg music news but was first played on two South Florida radio stations. A joking jews Good clean fun by a couple of dirty old men a at the seven store q records video Chain in Florida As Kosher ironically is outselling he latest 2 live Crew record banned in the . Quot we Call this a gift record a totally unexpected hit a said the chains owner 2 live jews blend rep with Good natured ethnic humor in a Tongue in Cheek parody of rappers 2 live Crew. Ned Berndt. Quot one of my salespeople Calls it Good clean fun by a couple of dirty old Only one Cut of it s so humid which is also the first single parodies a 2 Livo Crew rap the hit me so Horny. Lambert emphasizes Thal Quot Iho record s not Quot it s full of Good positive messages it s not a 2 live Crew rip off album. Except for it s so humid they re All original tunes there s no dirty language except for the occasional yiddish word Schup. You Wop t hear any backwards masking on this. 1. Shake your Tauchas done to the rhythm and Melody of the 1975 hit Shako your Booty is a humorous yiddish. Lesson. Jokin jews is a Battery of jewish jokes q what do you calf a jewish cuban restaurant a Casa mad As Sab. Ii comes Complete with a disclaimer that these arc Only funny when told by jews. Accountant stickers is an encouraging stay in school and anti drug go for it Lap Quot you can do anything you want to do be a lawyer an account land or a rapping jew one of the Best produced written and rapped cuts on the record is also its most Skripus Young jews be proud. Its a. Jewish history lesson rapped to the tune of the israeli National Anthem Quot hat Mikvah we were enslaved by the pharaohs til god sent Moses. Even after he delivered us it was no Bod of roses but 2 live jews humor already has offended some Henry Stone s hot productions which produced and distributed the record has received some Calls from jewish women about . Rap. J stands for jewish american Princess some of the lyrics include �?�. She spends Money All the time. J.. T love to hear her whine ii Quot if you disc a girl she likes you More Quot says Stone in his my Moisha they re just pretending it s no alive to show their affection. It s a shame people Aren t concentrating on the positive stuff songs such As Young jews be proud and accounting suckers the Bottom line for the moment is that Lambert and Stone Are having the time of their 2 lives Quot we re having fun trying to bring a Tittle Light to people a says Stone Quot look for other characters in the future Quot says Lambert. Quot we want to be the next Laurel and a Graffiti Bridge when it comes 2 a Prince album u have a pretty Good idea what us re in store 4 sex god brotherhood More sex soul Rock and bad fun is in finding out exactly what proportions the ingredients come in and just How commercially or controversially the bad sex boy wonder has blended them into his sometimes psychedelic always Funk Adelic Stew. His propensity for shocking the masses has been overshadowed by other acts in recent years but among the music cognoscenti his ability to dazzle with the tonal shifts of each new album remains almost unfettered. Graffiti Bridge his fourth More or less soundtrack album and 12th.overall, will please Princess Camps of constituents to varying degrees. Black radio certainly will be All Over it like White mice on Rice. This May be his most consistently ramp a sounding album since before purple rain and its grooves May be dominating dance floors Well into 1991, if not quite 1999 the fact that four of the album s 17 songs Are performed by the reunited time wont Hurt. Its better than last years Gutsy but ill conceived Batman by a Long shot and text Raily it s amazingly Weli recorded ramp a with Avant twists everywhere. So will the Camp of fans Thal prefers the risk taking controversy Side of Prince complain that however much fun this Alburn seems to be his least bold least personal and perhaps his most re iterative to Date that at times it seems As if he a going through the motions a Billing the ideas and themes that made him a i Nous that Call is up 2 u. In any Case its hard net to a that the opening can to Stop this feeling i got a mho toe tapping Rocker that recalls let s go crazy Sun beams with a solemnly invoked i elude to what s not record a review partying la the earlier tune. And at the much More Spiritualized Climax when Prince tells us that Quot everybody wants 2 find Graffiti Bridge Quot guess Well have to wait for the movie to decipher that one it seems not so eerily reminiscent of other big finishes when he symbolically generalized that Quot everybody a looking for the ladder a or wished a h a to 1 s everyone heaven or a a i / \ l o cleansing Bath in purple rain. Even the collaboration with spiritual progenitor George Clinton which ought to have Mouths watering seems familiar their disappointing we got the Funk the album s lamest song gets just about All its mileage out of using the title phrase As a profane play on words. Prince seems to have adopted the Maxim he invokes at the album s Midway Point Quot there s Joy in the thing is most of the time he a right. Within what for Prince is a limited Range of styles a dance oriented and not As poppy psychedelic or even rack Ous As some of his efforts a he hits grooves that maim and kill. At almost any place in the album he can step Back and justifiably boast Quot a can t touch an Odd Choice for a first single thieves in the Temple has one of the album s better lyrics and one of us lesser melodies. As jealousy leads him to try and drive out some tormenting demons you notice that Pence has gotten a Little More personal Here than he does any where else on the album. The Best track the Story song Joy in repetition offers Prince doing what to Dees Best a mixing a kind of Street re Akorn with All out redemptive romantic fantasy notwithstanding the Many guest stars who also include Mavis Staples and Elisa Fiorino. This collection like sign of the times and others before it has Prince going it mostly alone in his private Minneapolis studio a responsible for almost All the instrumentation and backing vocals and sticking fairly close to a beat heavy Central musical Motif. Even during his least can descent moments you have to Marvel at his ability to to a Knob twirling one Man party a whether boldly striding Forward or As Here treading water. A Chris Willman up Jon Bon Jovi a Young guns ii forsaking his band and Jersey for the old West was a Good move for Jon Bon Jovi on Young guns ii enlisting such stars As Jeff Beck Little Richard and Ellon John for songs Quot from arid inspired by Quot Iho movie he a made his richest sounding and least contrived music to Date. The stomping Little Richard fuelled blues Bop at you really got to not the kinks song is a real Hoot a though it s hard to see any connection Between it and the film a and there s a legitimate Aura of Western Romance to the Cantina Ballad Miracle liven a coup of of the More Standard Arena rockers have a surprising amount of life to them but Frontier outlaw image is hardly new to Rock Bobby Fuller s 19c5 i fought the l a said All that needed to be said and on this Cul Eolior the lyrical arid musical cliches Fly faster than Lead at the great Northfield Minnesota raid i Ruth be bed. 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