Doors 4pm, Music 8pm

Kosha Dillz

If you were to describe Kosha Dillz in one word you probably would spend too much time trying to figure out that it would be a word which not exist. Resilient, daring, complex and confident could also be intertwined with honorable, loyal, charismatic to say the least. He is as an artist who is in love with his performance, his energy, and dreams of uniting various groups of people for the better. Many call him a Jewish Rapper and many call him a hustler, or the “hardest working rapper in the game” but there are others who know him simply as Rami Even-Esh.

Born to Israeli Parents in NJ, he grew up with two brothers (Zach and Eilon)  that pushed each other into collegiate wrestling.  While Hip Hop first came in the form of bar mitzvahs he attended in his middle school years, a lot of  his influences combined familiar pop and  party rocking elements via groups ranging from  Digital Underground to the Beastie Boys, The Fat Boys, Wu Tang and Biggie Smalls. That didn’t exclude him from listening to the Ramones, Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins and Pantera as well as Metallica and Nirvana. Most of the music was interchangeable between warming up for wrestling matches and heading off to Jersey Shore teen-clubs. At Age 17, he entered a rap battle called Braggin Rites with a neighborhood friend Yak Ballz at the famous Nuyorican Poets Cafe, where he battled under the name Kosher Dill. Although he didn’t make it out the first round, he received an enormous applause which gave him the courage to return to the battlefield. Later on in the next year, he shortened the name to KD FLOW and continuously entered battles in the NYC area going against the likes of famous NYC emcees like Iron Solomon, Immortal Technique, JIN, and more. To him rapping was very much like wrestling, in which competition was about victory.

Kosha went on to released a project with C Rayz Walz called Freestyle Vs Written, which symbolized the correlation between Black and Jewish Culture. The record received great reviews in Spin Magazine. His album Beverly Dillz, produced by Belief, also sold thousands of copies and featured Yak Ballz on it as well, and later licensed his song “cellular phone” to Bud Light for A Superbowl as, which was rated as the #1 Superbowl commercial via USA Today. In 2011, Gina and The Garage Sale featured his famous sweatpants song  that landed him a gig on Yo Gabba Gabba Live! In 2009 he won the infamous Hot 97 Summer Jam Rap battle and earned a promo deal with Duck Down Records. His tenacity and hustle as an artist earned him his own playable celebrity character in NBA 2k11/2k13  , and he even collaborated with Wu Tan Clan’s Rza for in 2011 / 2012 for a song and performance at the acclaimed BET Hip Hop Awards. Kosha Dillz became the first emcee to ever perform in Hebrew   on BET in its entire history. In Rza’s own words “He is one of the rawest kats I know, proving that hip hop comes in all forms shapes and sizes.”  His most recent  album , Awkward in a Good Way, was released on Murs’ LABEL 316 and features Murs and Gangsta Boo of Three 6 Mafia. The album premiered on BIllboard  for it’s official stream and has received rave reviews on numerous sites. To this day, he has been featured on MTV, BET, VH1, Sundance, Billboard Magazine, Los Angeles Time, The Village Voice and more.

Due to the broadness of his reach and style, Kosha Dillz ideally wishes to bring together all the communities for more cultural understanding through his improvisational style of life and  hip hop music.  He continues to rap with Jewish references, topics and themes within his lyrics, and performs in venues ranging from 10,000 people (such as Red Rocks) to venues as small as ten people. A lot of times you catch him performing with his favorite improv friends Matisyahu  and Rza, and friends such as Flex Mathews or Verbs.

Kosha Dillz recently received international attention and acclarim for his viral video, “Death Con 3 (Kanye West Diss).

“Diss tracks can be tricky things in and of themselves. It's not easy to carefully craft words in a way that not only flows, but also packs a powerful punch, words in a way that not only flows, but also packs a powerful punch.”

Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz, aka Edison native Rami Even-Esh, has recorded his first-ever diss song as a rebuke to the anti-Semitic remakes made by Kanye West in October on social media. Dillz delivered a lyrical takedown of West — and of antisemitism from the right and the left — on the stinging new track, “Death Con 3 (Ye Diss).”Yet, Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz managed to do it quite well with Death Con 3 (Kanye West Diss), which he dropped on October 21, 2022.. But those who have taken the time to listen to, or look up, each verse are probably aware that this track isn't just about Kanye – it's about everyone.

Why? Because antisemitism exists with or without Ye using his role as a media magnet to spread hate. "If it wasn’t him, it would be somebody else that’s’ extremely popular," Kosha Dillz said.”

“Now is not the time for silence.”

http://koshadillzworld.com/

With Benny Beyond and DJ Shum

https://soundcloud.com/benny_beyond

https://nyweekly.com/music/new-dj-in-tow-dj-shum-from-rochester-n/

Tickets: $25 and on sale now at https://abilene.showare.com/ and tonight at the bar

Special thanks to West Construction for all their support with this show.

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