Since the 1990s , Ethiopian-Israeli teenagers used the rising reggae and hip hop scenes as a means of forming a community and a sense of belonging . Tel Aviv nightclubs proved to be places of social gathering for Ethiopian-Israeli teenagers , giving them a space to gather and form a collective identity . Teenagers and young adults were able to identify with the black struggle of the music and felt reggae and rap reflected their own experiences . Through identification with historically black American musical styles , Anthropologist Malka Shabtay writes , Young Ethiopians living in Israel have … transformed their collective and personal experiences of alienation , both real and imagined , into an ideology identifying themselves as the blacks in Israeli society and attributing the relatively poor achievements of Ethiopians and their sense of inferiority and failure to racism . Their language of disappointment , disillusionment and hostility is addressed to those they hold responsible for their situation . They believe Israelis to be prejudiced towards them and see in them the reason that their chances of achieving integration are low : ‘ You feel betrayed and are called ‘ n-gger ’ . You made it to Israel and it does n’t work . ’ Identification with the African-American struggle , mainly through music , formed a sense of community and identity among Ethiopian-Israeli teenagers . “ Their search for a home is temporarily satisfied by reggae and rap … This encounter with black musical genres is a matter not only of musical taste , but of self-image and image in the eyes of others . ” Ethiopian-Israeli reggae and rap , reflecting struggles and racism of daily life of these teenagers , provides a sense of community and identification among Ethiopian-Israeli youth . Ethiopian Israeli hip-hop groups , and artists like Cafe Shachor Hazak , Axum , Jeremy Cool Habash , and others have become very popular amongst all Israelis , and are growing in popularity as Ethiopian Jews integrate into mainstream Israeli society . Strong Black Coffee ( " '' Café Shahor Hazak '' " ; קפה שחור חזק ) is an Ethiopian-Israeli hip hop duo . The duo were a nominee for the 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards Best Israeli Act award
2015 MTV Europe Music Awards
2015 MTV Europe Music Awards
Israeli hip hop