Shyne raised a few eyebrows this year when he announced he had legally changed his name from Jamal Barrow to Moses Michael Levi. After being released from his 10-year sentence and subsequently being deported, Shyne simultaneously engaged in beef with 50 Cent and labelmate Rick Ross, while also expressing hope of turning over a peaceful new leaf. Shyne also briefly clashed with Def Jam head Antonio “L.A.” Reid. He explained how his conversion fits into the mix.
“There’s nothing in the Chumash that says I can’t drive a Lamborghini,” he told the New York Times in a recent interview. “[There’s] nothing in the Halacha about driving the cars I like, about the lifestyle I live.”
Shyne told Times writer Dina Craft that he began identifying himself as an Israelite at the age of 13, when he found that his grandmother was Ethiopian. He added that his connection to Judaism continued after his 2000 arrest for his role in a 1999 shooting involving Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jennifer Lopez.
While he was reluctant to speak on the incident, and persistent rumors that he took the fall for Combs, Shyne said his faith gave him a new interpretation of the law.
“What are the laws?” he said. “I want to know the laws. I don’t want to know the leniencies. I never look for the leniencies because of all of the terrible things I’ve done in my life, all of the mistakes I’ve made.”
After signing a deal reportedly worth over $5 million, Shyne said he hoped to release two albums, respectively entitled Messiah and Gangland. If his deportation holds up, it is unclear how he will tour to support either of them or the three albums which are scheduled to follow them.
“All these rules, rules, rules,” he added. “But you know what you have if you don’t have rules? You end up with a bunch of pills in your stomach. When you don’t know when to say when and no one tells you no, you go off the deep.”
Ever since Shyne changed his flow. I’m not checkin for his music really. Also the religious thing I’m skeptical about. If his grandma is Ethiopian. Why his momma is Christian? Because I remember his momma carrying a bible to his trial.
I kno… thank you!
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look like Shyne been pacified
ah oh, shyne is trying to be a jew, i wonder what the illuminati researchers got to say about that since most of them claim islam is the way to go…
Oh my god this dude wants to release 5 albums with his horrible voice and flow!!!
Banned this dude from the studio
you know whut happens to jews, don’t ya?
*sniff* *sniff*
I smell Cyanide!
Once a fan of shyne.
Now he just a screwed up non-sense making wanker!
He’s lost the plot need professional help coz prison got to him!
man why yall hate on this man so much fuck yall internet fags
i hate religion so much. why is shyne changing his name to moses n shit. i juts cant understand religion its fucked up, just live your life
Shyne is a unique individual and his own man. Those qualities alone make him more interesting than 99% of the rappers out now. I’m still ridin’ with Shyne, I just have a feeling that his best days are still ahead of him.