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Matisyahu
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- Album
- Youth
- Released
- 2006
- Genres
- reggae, reggae rock, christian reggae
- Length
- 3:42
- Tempo
- 94 BPM
- Label
- Fallen Sparks Records
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About this song
Matisyahu wrote the lyrics and chorus in roughly 20 to 30 minutes at a Philadelphia producer's house, after being allowed to travel there for Shabbat while living in a Brooklyn Yeshiva. He burned a CD of the track, which he listened to on his Discman during a summer the Yeshiva spent in the Catskills.
What it's about
The song reflects the singer's own sense of his dream to make music, which he kept alive during a strict religious period. He felt the track mixed genres in a way he had never heard before, and it spoke to him deeply.
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Fun facts
- Written by Josh Werner and Matisyahu.
- Produced by Bill Laswell.