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It was reported, and Jews got excited, but at the end of the day, he was a black Jew. It’s a mistake to say that Drake ever really “came out” as a Jew. He just reserves the right to be disillusioned, or neurotic, about it once he starts typing lyrics into his Blackberry. At least here, Drake has conquered the tradition’s (and his 13-year-old self’s) nerves and uncertainty, and his party, for all the chair-lifting, gray-haired relatives, Manischewitz, and yarmulkes, is an orgiastic blow-out that reminds us that Drake, in the end, is about good living. He’s overcome this most basic ritual hang-up parsha nailed, we move to the party, which goes out of its way to use the bar mitzvah scene as grounds for either parody or transformation, again depending on what level of investment you have in Drake’s video. But Drake, whose music leaves plenty of room for wrestling with fear and trembling, instead revels in this cheat. Of course, Drake isn’t performing live the anxiety that wracks any young Jewish man or woman as they take the stage before the eyes of family, friends and God isn’t comparable to lip-synching over a meticulous studio track (though I’m sure some family somewhere has tried it out of desperation). Figuratively, he nails it right there on the bimah, and for a second, there’s real synergy there. Still, this juxtaposition of the bar mitzvah recitation with Drake’s typically sharp, technically flawless, and gripe-laden verse is hard to dismiss. We can’t tell what he’s chanting his mouth isn’t moving, the friends and family are nodding their heads to the track, and the scene cuts back and forth to Drake rapping in front of the synagogue and in an empty sanctuary. Well, that and the painstaking shots of Drake up on the bimah.
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If we hadn’t been told in advance that it means something to the artist, “HYFR” could pass for a “Saturday Night Live” short. We get actual footage from baby Drake’s celebration at the intro, but beyond that, this is a music video staged at a bar mitzvah. Drake’s much-anticipated “bar mitzvah” video, released on the first night of Passover, was originally hyped on the web as a “re-creation” of his original childhood ceremony. The text at the beginning of Drake’s video for “HYFR” - “On October 24th 2011 Aubrey ‘Drake’ Graham chose to get re-bar mitzvah’d as a re-commitment to the Jewish religion … the following is a clip displaying the event that took place” - can be taken as seriously or sardonically as you want. Drake’s “HYFR”: Whose Bar Mitzvah Is It Anyway?