Blog Post:
Miami-bred, Brooklyn-based artist Nory drops the video for “Snip Snip” today, amplifying the conversation that started when his street interview about being half Muslim and half Jewish went viral in recent weeks. The track appears on his debut LP ‘FUCK THAT THIS THE RHYTHM’, now out, where he blends hip-hop, rock, and jazz into something that refuses easy categorization. Lines like “I’m moving to the left, because I’m never right / I can’t stay in the middle, I’m too afraid to die” cut straight through the noise, articulating what it means to exist outside clean boundaries during a cultural moment built on choosing sides. His flow recalls Q-Tip’s finesse mixed with Zack de la Rocha’s fire, and the 13 tracks address political corruption, negligence, and his own search for identity through religion and artistry.
Nory performed at Nublu on January 5 for the weekly Producer Mondays series hosted by Ray Angry of The Roots, following his November support slot for Oddisee at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Recent viral freestyles with Robert Glasper, Thundercat, and Harry Mack have created a surge of attention around his voice and perspective. The musician, producer, rapper, dancer, and actor hosts JAVAJAM, a weekly Brooklyn music event drawing over a hundred fans from around the world, and his collaborations span Marc Rebillet, DARGZ, Bernell Jones II, KennerKeyz, Shevya, J3PO, Zohar and Adam, and many others. This video arrives as raw proof that his genre-shattering approach connects on multiple levels, pulling from EDM, rap, explosive rock-hip hop, and experimental jazz without apology. He headlines Nightclub 101 in Manhattan on January 15, carrying this momentum into a live setting where his musicality and lived complexity collide onstage.