Matisyahu
Guess who’s gigging tonight at Stubb’s?
Matisyahu - the Hasidic reggae star!
Stubb’s is the same place where he recorded his hot album. This guy is great and he combines two key aspects of my life - Judaism and Reggae!
My panel ends at six and it sounds like I’m gonna have to go over there and stand in line to get in.
Matisyahu is busting out all over the place. He’s even on AIM Today - today.
Amd he’s gigging in SF next week for Purimapalooza.
March 28th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
I find your music, the best sound to my ears in a long time.
rock on…………..
March 29th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
you inspire me in soooo many ways…i love your music. thank you!
March 30th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
your music has impacted my life and my ways of living in so many ways i cannot say, but i will say that i know i have become a better person since my introduction to your music, and besides i am from trinidad in the carribbean and i naturally get called to any reggae like sounds…thanks matis for doing what you do and for doing it so well
April 3rd, 2006 at 9:19 am
You are so fresh and wonderful. I love your music.
April 5th, 2006 at 3:53 am
Greetings from New Zealand. Seriously I jus wanna say how much I love ur music. Your lyricly deep soundz bring a conviction thats edifying to the soule. Love u matisyahu…B blessed always
April 7th, 2006 at 6:20 am
matisyahu the best reggey i have heard since bob marley 2 thumbs way up
April 7th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Matis…I dont think you understand what your music has done for me…So inspirational…You have had an enormous impact on my life..Baruch Hashem
April 8th, 2006 at 10:14 am
So sorry I didn’t find out about you till after your proformance at House of Blues. Hoping you come back to Orlando!! I will be there. Wonderful voice just like my Dad who was a Cantor. He just passed away. I think I found you when I did to comfort me. G-D is good! Love your second Album- Stubbs. I pray that G-D blesses you & family with health, & long career, to comfort us & remind us of Adonai… Sh’ma Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad.
April 15th, 2006 at 3:14 am
Big Shout out from the Solomon Islands….
Sooo Refreshing
April 18th, 2006 at 8:08 am
Your music, the youth album has done so much for me. Especially a time when my grandma who was very close to me passed. Your music is inpirational and I hope I get to meet you one day and say thanks. I would love you to come to bakersfield California at the rabbobank arena.
April 20th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Matisyahu you have been an inspiration to me and many others ,your music is great for most of the youth today, i just want to say thanks an keep on making music.
May 20th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Matisyahu,
I am a 45 year old mother of 7 and grandmother of 3. My parents are from Antigua West Indies. I think that you are truly wonderful, through your music you are creating a bridge for gaps the need to be united. You are evidence that no matter where we are from or what religon we practice we are all the same. We are all reflecting each other. When I here your voice i trully am connecting to your soul which is a part of mine and eveyone else. You are helping to establish a universal connection.
thank you,
Peace & Love
Donalda
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:15 am
IS THE BEST EVOLUTION THAN REEGE EVER SUFRED
May 25th, 2006 at 10:53 am
matisyahu your music is the best i have heard in a long time.it creates lots of energy.
love&peace
gabe
May 25th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
I love seeing a musician breaking all the supposed “rules” of being cool. I love seeing a man spreading such a postive message, and one that is going to make Jews wear their sideburns and their hat, and choose out of their own free will, after all it is a free country. Before I learned about how special and magical religion can be, all religions, and how much power they hold. I was brought up as an anglican, and I still am an anglican, even though I stopped attending church in junior high because it wasn’t cool, actually more like your a loser if your at church on sunday morning, don’t you know your supposed to party all night and then be too hungover for church? Before I knew not to worship your idols, because they can do you much harm when you are a 16 year old boy, not feeling love or any kind of emotion which is much worse than having feelings, because when you’ve gone through so much in those 16 years, and then I discover Jane’s Addiction and Perry Bernstien(Farrell), fall in love with his music, worship him. When you watch his movie “Gift” and he’s talking about heroin, how he loves it, how he could write albums in one night on it. Watching him in that movie makes me so sick now, the glorification of heroin like no other movie I have seen. In the movie at the beginning when he comes home, and finds his woman overdosed on heroin, instead of calling an ambulance and slapping her face and into the freezing shower, he first shoots up, talks about how it’s love(the needle). Then he mentions her body is still warm, which means she’s probably alive, they find people passed out on the street too high on the hog, and give them an adrenaline shot to the heart and they come back to life. Instead he brings her body into the shower so he can be with her one last time, as in commiting necrophelia with the body. What do you think happened to me the first time somebody pulled out the needles and coke? I was so obsessed with the act of shooting up, how much glamour did it seem to have, and after seeing that I promised myself practically that I want to try that, I feel no love, I wonder what it feels like to love heroin? After all this is my idol saying it. In a infamous interview he says that more people die from car accidents then od every year. That’s a really stupid statement. I got introduced to morphine and the needle, and I’m on methadone now because I am so scared of going back to that life, once your in, everything is just a bubble you can ignore, except for the fact your going to be junk sick eventually and can’t get out of bed because you have cramps in your stomach, your having cold sweats, a runny nose, is heroin ever a beautiful thing hey? I did morphine but everybody I’ve ever talked to say they wish they could get morphine because street heroin sucks. What really pissed me off is hearing him on a porno for pyros concert, which I have a recording of if you don’t believe it which I could post. He’s saying that those orthodox jews have no fashion, they look stupid with those sideburns, you got to have some fashion. Hearing that after not listening to his music for easily 10 years, just disgusted me. Here is a man trying to push diversity, yet stating that he has some problems with the jewish religion. 6 000 000 people died for standing up and wearing those clothes, those hats, those sideburns, and if he has a problem with it he is welcome to find another religion, a more friendly hollywood Kabbalah one, which I find odd five years ago I never heard of it, now it’s the biggest hollywood bandwagon religion I have ever seen. But it’s their right and I have no place saying anything about things I don’t really understand about, I do find it odd that these kaballah parties are big hollywood mansion parties, where madonna trys to sing a yiddish song, and ashton and demi should be there in half an hour. But to say anything so ignorant and hateful towards people who have realized that religion comes before anything, clothes, money, I highly respect that. So I don’t get why Perry is trying to cash in now on some jewish lollapallooza thing I’ve heard about researching maytisyahu next to Perry Farrell, Mr. Farrell is not worthy of being on stage with such a proud man who wears his orthodox clothes, the same thing Mr. Farrell thinks looks stupid. I would love to see Matisyahu cut him to shreds with a mic as his weapon. “You don’t like my shy locks, get your head out of this evil mind block, I wear with pride my uniform 6 000 000 million died fuck!” Also reading in the last spin mag he was in, I think possible last october, there’s a pic of him wearing clown make up and holding an umbrella. It’s funny how the spin interviewer asks him about how alot of people in the world stated he glorified it so much that he’s the reason they tried it. I’ll have more respect any day for a man that teaches values, be proud of your religion, don’t get addicted to needles and heroin and cocaine becuase it’s hell and I(perry F) can tell you that because I know, it’s a waste of life and there is no happy ending, drinking methadone everyday is very bad for your confidence, and realizing you could stop taking it and get into it again, because oh my gawd!!!! The shit is good, why do you think people lose their lives with it? Why do they do it again? Because it’s that good, one hit is all it takes, then your gone. I’ve lost all respect for perry farrell, and I used to just love him. I’d like to see him pull professor griff on everybody. He should apologize for making such evil things attractive. He should apologize for spreading hate when he preached diversity. Cutting off “Shy-locks” reminds me too much of nazi skin heads chasing down jews, cutting off their “shy-locks”, and adding it to a key chain that are full of them. He should make a public apology, I know alot of other people hate him for the message of drugs he spread. NEVER FORGET!
May 27th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Holy(not really) SH*T!!!! Matisyahu I just heard one of your songs on carson daily, I heard about you 2 weeks ago on cnn, then finally found out your name and bam!! Matisyahu is born. You are such an inspiration, I haven’t heard music that made me feel so good in a long time. Watching all your favorite musicians die from seattle’s boom, and as a father of the most precious thing on earth, a 6 year old daughter, and if I didn’t have her, I tell you a would have died, and from my own hands, via a needle full of sh*t!!! The world needs more people like you, you preach a good message, you set a good example. But when I hear the supposed diversity of something so stupid as to cut your sideburns off because they look stupid, and you got to have fashion, that makes me sick. Perry Farrell has gone so far as to say there’s some things about the jewish relgion he doesn’t like. He’s a free man in a free country with the freedom to say what he wants, but what kind of life did he lead people into. His first love (xiola Blue) Od’s from something he introduced her too, then when she dies he goes out with xiola’s friend casey. Turns her into a junkie, does such disrespectful things as to bring casey on stage and tells the whole world about how when he cheats on her, she goes and does it back. Probably more like goes into a washroom or the woods and cries so hard because she’s been broken by this supposed legend. He was a legend, but then he put his career down the toilet by exhuming jane’s lifeless body from the earth, to make another album, and the album is crap. With all the people in the world who love to play music, and don’t get paid to, but still do it because they love too. I think Mr. Farrell has to get a pr rep. The spinmagazine article he was in recently was so damaging. Sobriety is boring he says, he isn’t going to watch the live aid concert, even though he’s supporting the same cause as he is, he just doesn’thave a good band to play because it’s happened to every band he was in. Who’s the problem, PF is. It’s not fair to see sinead o’connor’s career go down the tubes for something she did that was very brave, and a beautiful thing, but her career is gone. Perry Farrell should make as many drugs are bad commercials he can, his son will be a teenager and he’s on record saying so much stupid shit. Dissapointing when you learn the truth, like santa clause isn’t real, he’s a character made by coca cola that took the christ out of christmas. Everybody should be able to follow a good path, and I hear all the time of Jew being attacked for wearing their orthodox clothing. That’s why your such an inspiration, becuase the music industry is a cruel thing, and somebody else should get a chance to try. Ps. Hook up with steve perkins and banyan, I bet you guys would make some wickedly crazy music. So Lead the children, just as the good shepard leads his sheep. God bless your soul, god bless the muslims souls, god bless everybody.
May 29th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
when i first heard this it was quality and-the sound was unique matisyahu puts all his energy into his music and it shows this guy is gonna get bigger and bigger i wish you luck and hope to hear many more years of you all the best mate
May 29th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Without you there’s no me
June 8th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
nothing personal but your music has not changed my life or anything like that but your lyrics mean
things unlike you know the song ” It’s getting Hot In Here, So Take Of All Yor Clothes.”that song has a beat but it means nthing to me.but your songs actually mean something so thank you for the songs that mean something yo the world!
June 8th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
me again your the best
June 9th, 2006 at 5:26 am
I get to see you with dave! how exciting
June 9th, 2006 at 8:00 am
Saw you last night at the Sting’s concert in Israel
Best show ever!!!
I love Sting- but you were way better!!!
I dont think Roxanne ever sounded better…
Good luck!!!
Hila. Israel
June 15th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
For so long I’ve been trying to make my friends understand how touch I have been by Judaism and it’s teachings. Until now through your voice and lyrics they can finally understand….What a great Mitzvah you have accomplished!!!
Mazel Tov Mastiyahu!!!
July 13th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Matis, can’t wait to see you in LA, I love you you’ve changed me forever. When I listen to any of your albums(which I have all three) You inspire me and I fell so powerful, like I can do anything. I hope I’ll get to meet you someday! I promote your music any way I can. Love your #1 fan Rose, Pomona Ca.
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:56 am
The best I’ve ever heard this year…This guy really rocks da mic…lol congratulations.nice work,keep doing it allright…
August 21st, 2006 at 10:08 am
I discovered you from some of the young men at my shul. What can I say? You are fantastic. Don’t let it go to your head though! :o) I’m one of the elders who grew up in the 50’s/60’s and have always loved Regae. You have a wonderful message for us all. My Hashem bless you.
Yosef
August 24th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Wonderfull.
A new horizon to the word music!!!!!
September 8th, 2006 at 3:22 am
ringtones free
December 6th, 2006 at 5:11 am
love lyrics
I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read.