Matisyahu

Canta algo así como reggae.
Y samplea coros que parecieran cantos de barnitzbah.
Para ser sinceros escuché "King without crown" y de principio no entendí ni madres. La verdad es que me pareció con buen ritmo y el look de rabino me impresionó. "¿Un rabino cantando reggae?", me pregunté.
Después escuché una versión más lenta y lo logré, lo entendí.
Era un canto a Dios, su Dios, o el Dios que sea. Vaya, incluso el Dios que nos negamos los ateos.
Aquél desconocido o al que le has/hemos perdido un poco la pista.
Matisyahu. Judio de nacimiento. Neoyorkino. Tuvo una adolescencia de negación a sus origenes. La rebeldía total era la buena onda para el chamaco.
Dicen que después de enfrentarse a sus peores demonios fue que los cantos de una vertiente más radical del judaismo lo hicieron caer ante su nueva filosofía.
Con los conocimientos que la farra le dejó creó música... música que ya llegó a todos lados.
Y desde que lo escuché no para mi cabeza de cantar el coro del primer sencillo de su cd "Youth", que también se encuentra en una versión en vivo de su cd "Live at Stubbs".

King without crown
You're all that I have and you're all that I need
Each and every day I pray to get to know you please
I want to be close to you, yes I'm so hungry
You're like water for my soul when it gets thirsty
Without you there's no me
You're the air that I breathe
Sometimes the world is dark and I just can't see
With these, demons surround all around to bring me down to negativity
But I believe, yes I believe, I said I believe
I'll stand on my own two feet
Won't be brought down on one knee
Fight with all of my might and get these demons to flee
Hashem's rays fire blaze burn bright and I believe
Hashem's rays fire blaze burn bright and I believe
Out of darkness comes light, twilight unto the heights
Crown Heights burnin' up all through till twilight
Said, thank you to my Good, now I finally got it right
And I'll fight with all of my heart, and all a' my soul, and all a' my might


What's this feeling?
My love will rip a hole in the ceiling
Givin' myself to you from the essence of my being
Sing to my G-d all these songs of love and healing
Want Moshiach now so it's time we start revealing

Strip away the layers and reveal your soul
Got to give yourself up and then you become whole
You're a slave to yourself and you don't even know
You want to live the fast life but your brain moves slow
If you're trying to stay high then you're bound to stay low
You want Good but you can't deflate your ego
If you're already there then there's nowhere to go
If you're cup's already full then its bound to overflow
If you're drowning in the water's and you can't stay afloat
Ask Hashem for mercy and he'll throw you a rope
You're looking for help from Good you say he couldn't be found
Searching up to the sky and looking beneath the ground
Like a King without his Crown
Yes, you keep fallin' down
You really want to live but can't get rid of your frown
Tried to reach unto the heights and wound bound down on the ground
Given up your pride and the you heard a sound
Out of night comes day and out of day comes light
Nullified to the One like sunlight in a ray,
Makin' room for his love and a fire gone blaze

What's this feeling?
My love will rip a hole in the ceiling
Givin' myself to you from the essence of my being
Sing to my G-d all these songs of love and healing
Want Moshiach now so it's time we start revealing