alright...so i am watching the fuel channel this past week. they played a video to one of his songs. at first i was like WTF.....some amish looking dude playing reggae music. i am not the biggest reggae fan - but the guy acually has a decent voice....

i dont know i just thought it was weird. anyone else see this dude and think the same thing?

Oh yeah man. I picked up his Live At Stubbs album on the cover alone, and it totally blew me away. Great reggae, and the spin he takes by spitting jewish scripture is just plain great. Good music and learning yay!

It seems that he steadily gets a mention every month or so.

i think it is the funniest thing I have ever seen.

that's it.

The music is mediocre as far as reggae goes.

guess i dont know how to use the search function

i wouldn't have remembered if I hadn't just thought of that thread recently...

He's got a track on CMJ NMM Vol. 133.

i just got this disc + i must say i am enjoying it...

can someone suggest some good reggae. looking for something recent with good production quality...

and don't suggest bob marley (already have a ton of stuff from him)

this guy sucks

For a white, jewish guy he's got flow...don't shortchange him.

NPR did a segemnt on him a few weeks back. I think he's the one that was performing on the sly so his parents didn't find out.

Havn't the Beastie Boys - and pretty much every other white MC, from before the early or mid nineties (I recall that they were almost universally Jewy) - set the bar any higher?

reggae/hip hop...ehhhh. I would say Matisyahu's lyrics are a bit deeper as well.

I've grown weary of Matisyahu.

i havent grown weary yet.....he has one album and a live album...

give him time

Jewgae.

No thanks.

he's good at what he does, but yeah it's not really my thing.

Not exactly recent, as in the last decade, but Steel Pulse is really good reggae.

I really enjoy Steel Pulse, plus there is a really interesting story behind their fomation as well as some funny anecdotes about their brief interactions with Bob Marley when on tour with him.

For instance, Marley says, "what's your name again?" the response: "Steel Pulse". Marley says, "what the hell kind of band name is that?"

Also, you could try getting Damien Marley's album. I listened to it and I would say that half of it is pretty decent. The other half has that crappy reggaeton influence and then there is also the enlisting of digital pitch changing--i don't know what the technical term is--but in my opinion it sounds uber-lame.

not recent but these you should hear if you haven't yet.

Jimmy Cliff - The Harder they come
Toots and the Maytals - Funky Kingston
Burning Spear - Chant down Babylon

A reggae rapping Orthodox Jew? Geez you guys are behind the times.

Check: Yamatahatesu - A transgender Egyptian mormon who beat boxes novelty Christmas songs.

Huh?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was a joke.