DOR3
THE DAY WILL COME
Words by Nastasia Khmelnitski Created by WÜL Collective
We had a vision of Dor reading his lyrics facing the VHS camera. During an interview, I've asked whether he would be up to realizing this idea, which Dor enthusiastically agreed to. He said there's a poem he would love to share. We decided to use a stepladder we have in the Blacklight Studio, our workplace.
The scene was carefully designed, choosing low angles while filming on two handheld cameras that captured Dor’s movement and emotions. The words are streaming in a beautiful flow, clicking and tripping off the tongue, to conclude in the final statement ‘I want to be better than everyone, and the day will come.'
Created by WÜL Collective Stastia Khmelnitski Dmitry Khmelnitsky Ilya Marcus Video Art by Ronen Tanchum
Listen to Shirei Dichaon
We have collaborated with Ronen Tanchum, an owner and creative director at Phenomena Labs, for this video. As the guest artist, Ronen added some powerful video art to the interview. In the video, Dor describes his first LP, ‘Shirei Dichaon’ (Depression Songs), as ‘not fitting a slot... exceptional and outlawed.” The album already has a good reception helping out a younger generation with their struggles, routing the emotions in a positive direction. The feeling of success comes to Dor in comments to the album and acknowledgment that fighting the tough period and coping with it - is possible.
“While I was working on the album, I didn’t have a vision yet. I was recording songs that I wrote and liked to the beats that Dabo brought. When I listened to the songs I realized, I want to call the album Shirei Dichaon, not because those songs make you depressed rather the opposite those songs bring you out of depression.”
Dor explains that the rap scene in Israel has changed dramatically over the past couple of years, during which new artists emerged, bringing an innovative genre to the audience. While Dor gives his respect to the 3 Israeli rappers Dabo, Prosper, and Nik, with whom he works together, he also says that he loves Israeli music as Omer Adam (merging eastern Mizrahi with Western pop) and Avi Bitter (Turkish music in an Arabesk genre). “I listen to everything, mostly I listen to my music, and my friends' music, because it stimulates my ear. It’s something new that hasn't yet been released. When I want to calm down or get inspiration, I listen to Rock’n’Roll, I don't listen to Hip-Hop.”
Honesty, authenticity, staying true to oneself are the utmost important elements in the approach Dor has to his music, lyrics, and the persona Dor3. Dor explains that he was inspired from a young age by the culture of skateboarding and the music of Eazy-E, “from the rap legends, the person who has changed me is Eazy-E. It’s the first time I heard someone with an attitude and a harsh approach to life. He was
a criminal when most of the rappers were playing it tough, he really was. I was listening to a lot of NWA when I was younger, and he was the toughest amongst them, while his voice is the nicest. I didn’t understand it when I was young. I loved him because he was funky. When I found out how real he was with what he was saying, I understood that strong energy is the most important.”
Outro
We first met Dor to shoot a live session at InDnegev, a yearly festival. It was Dor3 and Kalman Mami with the song ‘Lo Echpat Li Midavar’ shot in the middle of the Israeli desert in the colors of the setting sun. An artificial smoke streaming in different colors was filling the space, a newly built temporary stage, while Dor was reading authentically and honestly his lines in a Black Sabbath's T-Shirt:
‘I don’t care about a thing now.
Everyone here is the same now.
Everything always ends now.’
Kalman Mami was creating the beat and taking the back vocals part. The strong wind fluttering the fabrics, which eventually, in a matter of days, developed to a storm causing the cancelation of Dor3’s gig during the festival.
Dor3 is a 27-year-old Israeli rapper and songwriter, coming from Rishon LeZion. He is a member of the GCG737 mob, a mob with deep roots in skateboarding. In 2019, Dor releases his first LP ‘Shirei Dichaon’ in which he addresses modern society living in Instagram Stories, speaks about the danger of being happy, the challenge in building serious relationships, and most importantly he encourages to take life to one’s own hands and become responsible for personal decision making.