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Black and Dillz mention Sandler-who has in the decades since releasing “The Chanukah Song” gone on to a critically acclaimed, genre-spanning movie career - in the lyrics. “The Hanukkah Song 2.0” pays homage to its inspiration in more ways than its title and melody. It’s a billboard for the pair’s shared “Bright Lights” tour that is set to begin next week in New York City and to criss-cross the United States through December and January. In the song’s final section, the pair dance on the steps of Penn Station as masked passersby gawk and stare up at a (simulated) poster in Times Square advertising their upcoming performance. The pair meet up on the subway, where Dillz begins a solo of his own. Throughout Black’s solo performance, Dillz can be seen surrounding himself with a variety of menorahs. (“I’m not saying it eight times - you’ll have to replay this,” he sings.) But he declines to name either the many people who have tried to destroy the Jews or which day of the holiday it is. The haredi Orthodox musician then raps about the miracle of Hanukkah and the power of God. The strains of Sandler’s original hit are audible in the background. The video begins with Black arriving at the airport, presumably from Israel, where he lives in a haredi neighborhood that he has described as uncommonly diverse and accepting. “For eight nights we make a great light and we show the world we’ve won.” “You know we’ve been down, but we’ve come around, they put our heads down and God took us out,” sings Black at one point. “The flow is so iconikah.”īut where Sandler’s lyrics ran down a laundry list of notable Jews, from David Lee Roth to Tom Cruise’s agent, “The Hanukkah Song 2.0” tackles weightier topics, including the miracles at the heart of the holiday and the role of God in protecting the Jewish people over time. “Aw man, yes, Hanukkah,” they sing in the chorus. Together, they borrow Sandler’s earworm Hanukkah melody and knack for inventing words to rhyme with the holiday’s name.
Black is a Black American and Hasidic Jew who moved to Israel in 2016, while Dillz is the stage name of Israeli-American rapper Rami Even-Esh. The pair are two of the best known Jewish rappers making music today.
It features the musicians galavanting around New York City, riding the subway and hobnobbing with sidewalk vendors in Times Square. Nissim Black and Kosha Dillz dropped the video for “The Hanukkah Song 2.0” just before the holiday began on Sunday evening. Two leading Jewish hip-hop artists have adapted Adam Sandler’s 1995 breakout hit, “The Chanukah Song,” for the present moment.