Global Hit – Y-Love

The World

For today’s Global Hit, we meet an American hip hop artist who learned to rap in Jerusalem. His name is Yitzchak Jordan. But he goes by the name, Y-Love. Y-Love stands out in the crowd. He’s a Black Orthodox Jewish MC. And as The World’s Andrea Smardon reports, he likes to mix holy languages into his rhymes.

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