Matisyahu

[Ilovesupras]

Any1 listen to matisyahu?if u havent i suggest checkin him out...love listen to him blown and sober. always fills me with energy and brings me up when im down.

[MrDank]

well considering that this is a cannabis forum and matisyahu openly puts marijuana down.... well... i dont listen to matisyahu for that reason, although i like his band but i wont listen to him but that is my opinion and i also think that there is one billion times more reggae that is much much better

[Ilovesupras]

well yea thats true but i dont let that ruin the experience...

[MrDank]

yeah but when i listen to reggae i love to smoke weed but i cant listen to reggae that talks shit about weed and enjoy myself.

[40oz]

Live at stubbs is the best. He really has no songs dissin marijuana in that CD and his live preformance is amazing. Matisyahu doesn't like weed because it is a drug and drugs are bad. to him. cause hes orthodox jew.

[thcbongman]

His music doesn't talk shit about weed at all. It's more related to Hadidic Judaism, about spirituality, and joy. He made it clear his anti-ganja views in interviews, you gotta respect his rights. His music is positive and has deep meaning if you shed such a materialistic view about an artist.

Personally he isn't my favorite reggae artist, but the man gets my respect.

[MrDank]

yeah his band is great but he is just a gimmick sorry guys but he is.
he is exploiting his religion by dressing up and rapping.
he is no different to me than marilyn manson.
and he does talk against marijuana in his songs
"If you're trying to stay high then you're bound to stay low"
well i get high and it doesnt keep me down, to me this is like him saying that all marijuana users are just fooling themselves and that we shouldnt smoke because it is no good.
i find that to be misleading information and i am against that.

[MrDank]

i am not close minded so dont even go there

[40oz]

yeah his band is great but he is just a gimmick sorry guys but he is.
he is exploiting his religion by dressing up and rapping.
he is no different to me than marilyn manson.
and he does talk against marijuana in his songs
"If you're trying to stay high then you're bound to stay low"
well i get high and it doesnt keep me down, to me this is like him saying that all marijuana users are just fooling themselves and that we shouldnt smoke because it is no good.
i find that to be misleading information and i am against that.

I think the quote "If you're trying to stay high then you're bound to stay low" is very valid. If you let drugs get the best of you in life you will stay low. He also never claims that what he is talking about is marijuana. I also think to say matisyahu is exploiting his religion is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Matisyahu used his religion to find meaning in his life. It gave him the passion to write his music. The popular music scene may use his "white jewish reggae" image as a gimick to sell records but his music comes from the heart.

[MrDank]

The popular music scene may use his "white jewish reggae" image as a gimick to sell records but his music comes from the heart.
you may be right it may be the record industry exploiting him but that is the point i am making, he would be nothing without his costume. (i dont mean any disrespect to the jewish community in any means)
some record exec saw him and said wow this will sell.
and in an interview he in fact said he was talking about marijuana.
there is plenty of good reggae who sing about their religion im not against it
matisyahu is lame and thats my opinion but it is a fact what i said about his views on marijuana which is my medicine so i cant listen to him.
its my opinion im just sharing it with you because that is what these forums are for.

[thcbongman]

yeah his band is great but he is just a gimmick sorry guys but he is.
he is exploiting his religion by dressing up and rapping.
he is no different to me than marilyn manson.
and he does talk against marijuana in his songs
"If you're trying to stay high then you're bound to stay low"
well i get high and it doesnt keep me down, to me this is like him saying that all marijuana users are just fooling themselves and that we shouldnt smoke because it is no good.
i find that to be misleading information and i am against that.

Those intangibles aren't related to music, more to selling records. What does selling records really mean. An artist can reach multi-platinum and still write shit music. If you never heard about his views on marijuana previously, how would you know his stance? The essence of music has no face, no PR, just expression. This is me personally, but I rather not know nothing about an artist before listening to it.

40oz explained the meaning of "if you're trying to stay high, then you're bound to stay low" best.

I love ganja much as everyone here does. But I won't let my views interfere into what I listen to. If it's good music, it's good music.

[MrDank]

well i try to stay high because it feels good not because i am some crackhead and i start sweating because i have no drugs if you are a crackhead you will take that message as meaning that someone is actually depressed because they are not high. well that is a person with an addiction i try to stay high because i love to smoke marijuana and it does not keep me low. i find what he says to be generalizing all drugs and putting them on the same tier. also there is many many different types of high's if someone is "high on jesus" and they go to church often to stay high on jesus are they bound to stay low?

[thcbongman]

Yes.

Look at those born-again christians, an extremity of being high on Jesus. They put all their faith in a singular message, preach it, and discount everyone that doesn't believe what they do. The message Matisyahu conveys can be used in this context.

Again, if all you do is sit there and smoke ganja, doing nothing else, would anyone want to give you time of day?

Too much of a good thing can be bad. Even smoking ganja, as good as you can feel, what goes up must eventually come down.

[MrDank]

yeah and that is called abuse
after i am done being high or stoned i dont "come down" i just realize that i am hungry and eat something and then im fine and if i feel like it later on ill smoke another bowl or blunt or whatever.
i am not a marijuana abuser.
and he does not specify drug abuse
he specifies "trying to stay high"
and i just disagree
just like i disagree with what george w. bush says which is why i dont listen to what he has to say.
for me matisyahu failed and attacked my personal beliefs and views.
for whatever reason i stay high or smoke weed it has not ever brought me down any more than just waking up in the day.
the funny thing is that people always have problems and are down and bla bla but this also happens to people who do not use drugs but they find something else to blame it on like alcohol this is all just a joke to me if you cant handle drugs dont do them.
not everyone trying to stay high is bound to be low i can never agree with his views and never will he kills my buzz when i am stoned and he makes me mad when i am sober. he is a joke.. period. a little punk who thinks he had this epiphony and now he is like some rabbi.

[thcbongman]

Ok....

I don't feel Matisyahu puts down anyone's view, he's simply expressing his own. That's what music is about, expressing their perspective of what's around them, and what's inside them. If you let one's views offend you, I can understand why it's a lot harder to appreciate them.

[TheFatKid]

Exaltation my god of salvation.....

[40oz]

yeah and that is called abuse
after i am done being high or stoned i dont "come down" i just realize that i am hungry and eat something and then im fine and if i feel like it later on ill smoke another bowl or blunt or whatever.
i am not a marijuana abuser.
and he does not specify drug abuse
he specifies "trying to stay high"
and i just disagree
just like i disagree with what george w. bush says which is why i dont listen to what he has to say.
for me matisyahu failed and attacked my personal beliefs and views.
for whatever reason i stay high or smoke weed it has not ever brought me down any more than just waking up in the day.
the funny thing is that people always have problems and are down and bla bla but this also happens to people who do not use drugs but they find something else to blame it on like alcohol this is all just a joke to me if you cant handle drugs dont do them.
not everyone trying to stay high is bound to be low i can never agree with his views and never will he kills my buzz when i am stoned and he makes me mad when i am sober. he is a joke.. period. a little punk who thinks he had this epiphony and now he is like some rabbi.

I think what matisyahu meant by his trying to get high and staying low was if all you have is your drugs to keep you high you will always be low. As much as I love marijuana I know if it was what I did every night to feel better, i would never really feel better. He's not saying smoking weed will ruin you, he's just saying it can.

[bong_man]

matisyahu is pretty fucking brilliant butttttt i wud'nt even call his style reggae!

[40oz]

what would you call it then?

[Ilovesupras]

heh yea...if its good music then its good music.i think his music is from the heart and i dont really care how he dresses or whatever.yea its definately a mix of reggae with some hip hop and other shit i dunno .well anyways its not like its his main objective to bash pot smokers...so i aint trippin on a line in 1 song

[bong_man]

what would you call it then?

I'd call it regbeatboxrapskarock lol, but im a big fan of reggae and i think all them differant styles mixed in just totaly changes it from reggae.