More Jewish Reggae Stars?!?

By Joe Katzman on April 23, 2005 3:01 PM | 7 Comments

A little over a year ago, Winds ran a piece about Sean Paul Henriques, a Jamaican Jew who picked up 2 Grammy nominations for best reggae artist.

At the time, Yehudit mentioned a Hasidic (you know, the bearded guys in black suits and hats, etc.) reggae artist named Matisyahu. Well, Matisyahu has an interesting story. He wasn't a Hasidic boy entranced by reggae. Nope - he was a non-religious Jewish kid who got into reggae... which led him to become a Hasid. Now he's a rising reggae star featured in positive reviews from Rolling Stone and Associated Press. You can listen for yourself here.

"Exaltation, my G-d of salvation
The field and there in will be filled with jubilation
The lord's name will be proclaimed amongst the Nations
We don't have no time for patience..."

Oy vey, mon!

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#1 from Glenn | April 23, 2005 3:56 PM | Reply

MatisYahu is Awesome! I just saw him live at Irving Plaza in NYC and he was a rock star. An unbelievable performer. He actually is the best beat boxer I've ever seen. You can check out lots of videos of his concerts here: MatisYahu

#2 from Rob McMillin | April 23, 2005 9:55 PM | Reply

It's rap, not raggae, but JibJab has a new video that's pretty amusing along a similar line.

#3 from Joe Katzman | April 24, 2005 5:26 AM | Reply

That was good... an even closer example is rapper Aviad "50 Shekel" Cohen, an obvious takeoff on "50 Cents". He's pretty good, too. I liked his takeoff on 50 Cents' "In Da Club" called "In Da Shul" (click the link and listen) - and apparently, 50 Cents liked it too.

#4 from Jc | April 24, 2005 6:05 AM | Reply

Go to Ifilm, and music videos. Matisyahu was in the top 100 videos.

(Being an 80's kid, I actually grouse about not having a real music video station to listen to. Real World was fun for about 10 seconds, and then I fell asleep.)

But Matisyahu has an amazing video up there.

#5 from JC | April 24, 2005 6:09 AM | Reply

I'm having trouble getting to the heavy link.

Here's the IFilm link.

This must be one of those memes going around - it was only last night that I was watching various videos on ifilm, and I came across this. Then I look at here, and Joe's talking it up...

#6 from JC | April 24, 2005 6:15 AM | Reply

Here are lyrics.

Wonderful lyrics for the love of God. Just awesome.

#7 from freddy | May 9, 2005 3:05 PM | Reply

i am a jew and i love god AMEN BLESS THOU MUSIC ONES budha ala aberham likin park

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