Eprhyme
| Eprhyme | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Eden Daniel Pearlstein |
| Also known as | ePHRYME |
| Born |
February 19, 1980 Phoenix, Arizona |
| Origin | Brooklyn, New York |
| Genres | Jewish hip hop, alternative hip hop, hipster hop, conscious hip hop |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper, producer |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Labels |
Shemspeed K |
| Associated acts | Saints of Everyday Failures, Smoke M2D6, Oldominion, Darshan |
| Website | eprhyme |
Eden Daniel Pearlstein (born February 19, 1980, Phoenix, Arizona), better known by his stage name Eprhyme (pronounced "E-Prime"), is an American Jewish rapper and producer based in Brooklyn, New York. Raised in a Reform family, he later found himself drawn to greater observance and became Orthodox, a change which influenced his music. While attending The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, he became involved with the Olympia music scene as half of the hip hop duo Saints of Everyday Failures, with which he released two albums. According to Nic Leonard of the Weekly Volcano, Eprhyme "played a major roll [sic] in the creation of the Olympia hip-hop scene." He was noticed by local independent label K Records, who released his first two singles, "Punklezmerap" and "Shomer Salaam". He then released his debut album, Waywordwonderwill (2009), through Shemspeed Records, before returning to K Records for his followup, Dopestylevsky (2011). He is currently part of the alternative hip hop group Darshan with singer-songwriter Shir Yaakov.
Eden Pearlstein was born February 19, 1980, in Phoenix, Arizona. He grew up in a Reform Jewish household, later describing it as "a standard non-Orthodox West Coast Jewish upbringing - Hebrew school, bar mitzvah and summer camp. It was not very intriguing to me and I just walked away from it after my bar mitzvah." He listened to hip hop as a child and began rapping when he was 14. During his middle school years, he became rebellious and dabbled in drugs and petty crime until, at age 17, he attended a youth arts program and became interested in poetry. In his early twenties, he visited North Dakota to participate in a Native American Sun Dance, during which he had a spiritual epiphany that inspired him to reexamine his Jewish roots.
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