Israeli Salad (album)
Background
Background
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The Alchemist's father is an Israeli businessman. After record shopping in Israel while visiting there, in a 2012 *[Billboard](/wiki/Billboard_%28magazine%29 "Billboard (magazine)")* interview, Alchemist stated that he planned on creating an instrumental album with all Israeli samples. The project really developed much later, and he announced it in late March 2015\.

Like other albums by The Alchemist, *Israeli Salad* is an [instrumental hip hop](/wiki/Instrumental_hip_hop "Instrumental hip hop") album consisting of beats and audio collages. The album has many samples and recordings in [Hebrew](/wiki/Hebrew "Hebrew"); additionally some of the song names contain Hebrew phrases (eg. "Shalom Alechem", "Chetzi") and [Israeli cultural](/wiki/Israeli_culture "Israeli culture") references. Some of the beats in the album were used before on songs produced by The Alchemist. For example, "The Type" was the beat of a song of the same title, featuring [Prodigy](/wiki/Prodigy_%28rapper%29 "Prodigy (rapper)") on [Curren$y](/wiki/Curren%24y "Curren$y") and Alchemist's album *[Covert Coup](/wiki/Covert_Coup "Covert Coup")*, "Bold" was on [Boldy James](/wiki/Boldy_James "Boldy James") and Alchemist's album *[My 1st Chemistry Set](/wiki/My_1st_Chemistry_Set "My 1st Chemistry Set")*, and more.


How does The Alchemist plan to use his knowledge of Israeli culture in the music production process?