Rucka Rucka Ali

Rucka Rucka Ali (; born January 27, 1987) is an Israeli-American rapper, singer, radio personality, comedian, YouTuber, and parodist. He has released eight independent studio albums, four of which have charted on the Billboard Top Comedy Albums. As of July 2026, he has amassed 594+ million views and 2 million subscribers on his main music channel on YouTube. Though his songs are parodies, he has been banned from YouTube multiple times for content deemed by the corporation to violate its hate speech policy.

Early life Rucka Rucka Ali was born in Jerusalem on January 27, 1987, to an Orthodox Jewish family, but stated he distanced himself from the religion as he grew up.

Career Rucka Rucka Ali has released eight total albums, four of which have charted in the Billboard Top Comedy Albums chart: I'm Black, You're White & These Are Clearly Parodies (No. 6 peak), Probably Racist (No. 11), Rucka's World (No. 8), and Black Man of Steal (No. 7). During the weeks of July 31, 2010 through , Rucka Rucka Ali held 5 of the top 10 spots on the Billboard Comedy Digital Tracks chart.

In June 2010, three British students were reprimanded after publicly showing Rucka Rucka Ali's music video for his parody "Ima Korean" to their class while studying different countries' musical traditions. One South Korean student was "devastated, upset, very offended, and feeling very lonely", being the only East Asian child in the class. An assistant headteacher, Len Idle, said the song was "probably racist". Rucka Rucka Ali subsequently used the quote as the title of his next album, Probably Racist.

On July 24, 2013, Rucka Rucka Ali released the song "Zayn Did 9/11" (a parody of Selena Gomez's "Come & Get It") to YouTube. The song mocked then One Direction member Zayn Malik, jokingly saying he committed the September 11 terrorist attacks, a reference to his British-Pakistani background. The single-cover features a silhouette of Malik in front of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center during the attacks. The song, along with an accompanying music video released several days later, angered One Direction fans and others. Business Standard called the song "offensive" and a "racist attack" on Malik.

In the end of November 2013, he was involved in another controversy after his song "Only 17", a parody of "Just a Dream" by Nelly, was accidentally played uncensored over the speakers at a McDonald's company in Wales. Subsequently, McDonald's issued an apology to the offended customers. That same week, Rucka Rucka Ali responded to the controversy on his YouTube channel by jokingly demanding a personal apology from the restaurant.

On August 13, 2024, a German right-wing YouTuber, known online as Shlomo Finkelstein, was charged and sentenced to prison for "inciting racial hatred" for creating a video where he set a Koran on fire and urinated on it. According to his podcast co-host, a contributing reason for his arrest was that he played Rucka Rucka Ali's song "What Does the Black Say" on a livestream.

Discography Albums Studio albums Title Year Peak chart positions US Comedy Straight Outta West B 2008 — I'm Black, You're White & These Are Clearly Parodies 2010 6 A Very Rucka Christmas — Probably Racist 2011 11 Prehistory of Rucka — A Very Rucka Christmas: The 2nd Cumming — Rucka's World 2012 8 Black Man of Steal 2015 7 Everything Is Racist 2017 — The Fried Chicken 2019 — Black Manthology 2021 7 KSWhy 2023 — We Fuck The Earth 2025 — "—" denotes a recording that did not chart.

Singles As lead artist

As featured artist

Music videos Year Video Director 2006 "I Heart Crack" DeeJay Vinegar 2009 "I Don't Like White People" Serchlite Music/Pinegrove 2008 "I Can Do Whatever I'm White" MC Serch 2009 "Good Kids Smoke Crack" Pinegrove Records 2009 "Anne Frank Bash 2009" Serchlite Music/Pinegrove 2009 "Pligganease" Unknown 2011 "Justin's Beaver" Pinegrove Collective 2015 "Kim Jong Un Song" Dave Farese 2015 "Shake Ur Tush" Non-album track 2017 "Am I Gay?" Foxy 2017 "Ebola 2.0" Non-album track