Subliminal (Rapper)

Subliminal ( born November 13, 1979 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli rapper and producer. The real name of the musician is Ya'akov " Kobi " Shimoni.

Career and status

Subliminal and the artists associated with him his label TACT Records ( the label TACT stands for Tel Aviv City Team ) are the most successful Israeli music group of all time. They landed more than ten number - one hits in Israel and have sold more than a million albums by 2006. At the same TACT Records is the largest music label Israel.

Subliminal collaborates with various musicians, including with SHI 360, but especially with his partner Yoav Eliasi aka " The Shadow " (Hebrew: הצל ), with whom he released the album " The Light & The Shadow" recorded in 2002. Subliminal was the first Israeli musician, who worked with an international hip-hop size: For the album "Just When You Thought It Was All Over", he recorded a track with Wyclef Jean. In addition, he has collaborated with artists of the Wu -Tang Clan and the known as The Hip- Hop Violinist Israeli violinist Miri Ben- Ari.

Subliminals texts frequently thematize the Middle East conflict from an Israeli perspective and are therefore considered nationalistic, but reflect mainly the conflicts in the region. In the song " Biladi " ( Arabic for "My Country " and also the title of the Palestinian anthem ) he sings the last line of the chorus just in Arabic and so deals with the mutual claim to the land. Despite nationalist undertones in some of the songs is about and the multilingual song " Peace in the Middle East" ( chorus line: " Salam, peace, shalom " ) of the TACT All-Stars, in which he raps the first verse in Hebrew, for efforts to pacify the region.

Apart from the political song has Subliminal but also many non-political hits in the repertoire, such as "Move With The Bass / Bounce " (2002), " Toro " (2006) and most recently " Alai " (Hebrew: עלי, dt "Me", as part of the chorus, להסתכל עלי, " lehistakel alai " dt "Look at me " ), which he recorded together with Dana International 2009.

Discography

  • 2000: The Light From Zion (Hebrew: האור מציון )
  • 2002: The Light & The Shadow ( Hebrew: האור והצל, along with The Shadow)
  • 2004: TACT All-Stars (Hebrew: תאקט אול סטארז, along with other artists of his label )
  • 2006: Just When You Thought It Was All Over (Hebrew: בדיוק כשחשבתם שהכל נגמר )
  • 2011: Jew - niversal
  • 2012: My Creation ( Hebrew: היצירה שלי; double album with 35 Greatest Hits and five new songs )
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