Hip Hop Hoodios 'Carne Masada' album

First-ever 'Best of' collection (with 5 new tracks) from the critically-acclaimed Latino-Jewish urban collective Hip Hop Hoodíos. Hey, get into it! There is a deep, transcendental beauty to be found in the sumptuous musical creations of Hip Hop Hoodíos - the same species of qualities that defines the works of such grand artists as Ludwig Van Beethoven, Julio Iglesias...El Chapulin Colorado.

These comparisons are not random, as you can probably gather. There is an invisible thread that unites the cultural innovators of the world, regardless of their sexual orientation. Wasn’t Beethoven Jewish? Isn’t Julio Iglesias known for performing the occasional song in Spanish? And wasn’t El Chapulin Colorado the true and only pioneer of hardcore Latin hip-hop?

It was in Paris (the city that never sleeps, the city that all three Hip Hop Hoodíos groupies call their heart-home), where HHH founders Josué Noriega and Abraham Velez tasted (just like Jerry Lewis before them) the sweet fruits of artistic vindication. In fact, the French government recently acknowledged the duo’s selfless quest to bridge Jewish and Latin American culture by proudly displaying the original “bagel bra” from the seminal “Ocho Kandelikas” video on a specially-guarded hall at the Louvre museum ?— and just a corner bodega’s distance from the Mona Lisa.

Many adjectives have been used to describe classic Hoodios lines such as “you like our dicks and you like our noses/you see a Jewish guy and you forget where your clothes is”: soulful, sensuous, eye-opening, and edifying are some of them. But also zaparrastroso, pusilanime, infradotadoand indecente, too.

All of them are right on target, of course, because such is the elusive mature of art — no matter what a handful of painfully constipated critics may tell you.

¡Guau! Now, all of the Hoodios’ greatest hits have been brought together with their newest wonders, in one lovingly assembled package. If you, like me, enjoy the finer things in life, you will know that it is time to sit down, close your eyes, and enjoy the unparalleled poetry of the unforgettable (and indestructible) Hip Hop Hoodíos.

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Bringing new meaning to the phrase ‘put your money where your mouth is,’ Latino-Jewish urban collective Hip Hop Hoodíos is offering the music industry’s very first digital money back guarantee with the forthcoming release of their career retrospective Carne Masada: Quite Possibly the Very Best of Hip Hop Hoodíos (April 28th iTunes release; May 12th all other retail). “We like to think of ourselves as the reverse Bernie Madoffs of the Latin music community,” says Hoodíos frontman Josh Norek, also known as Josúe Noriega. “How many times have you been ripped off and bought an album that sucked? There are tens of thousands of album releases each year, so we decided to cut through the clutter and do what no other artist seems to have the courage to do – refund people who don’t like the music.”

“Carne Masada: Quite Possibly the Very Best of Hip Hop Hoodíos” is the first-ever ‘Best of’ collection -- including 5 new tracks -- from the critically-acclaimed Latino-Jewish urban collective. Hip Hop Hoodíos’ latest release features guest participation from members of such major Latin & Jewish acts as Ozomatli, The Klezmatics, The Pinker Tones, Delinquent Habits, Los Mocosos, and Los Abandoned. The album’s first single is the old school-flavored homage to pre-gentrified Manhattan, “Times Square (1989).” The album spans the group’s entire career and also includes liner notes written by the (soon-to-no-longer-be) esteemed Rolling Stone/LA Times music critic Ernesto Lechner.

The Jewish answer to Los Fabulosos Cadillacs? The Latino respuesta to the Beastie Boys? From Latin funk to klezmer to cumbia to straight-up rap, Hip Hop Hoodíos are a cross-cultural phenomenon. The band is almost certainly the only act in the history of recorded music to have co-headlined both the Salute to Israel Parade AND the Barrio Museum in Spanish Harlem. The 2007 Hip Hop Hoodíos release ‘Viva la Guantanamera’ (a benefit for Amnesty International’s efforts to close Guantanamo Bay Prison) charted at number 9 on the iTunes Latino albums sales chart and number 1 overall on eMusic. In recent years, the band’s music has been featured in a number of films and television shows including the Warner Bros Pictures release ‘Pride & Glory’ and MTV’s ‘Life of Ryan.’

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