Presence

Whoah, where am I...I started my car, radio set to 105.7 from the ride home, and there's someone on the radio singing about Moshiach and Hashem, with a Jamaican patois for added flare. Did Shweky eat the wrong brownies on his Pesach vacation in The Bahamas? Nope, it's Matisyahu! Somewhere in the last few weeks, Matisyahu crossed over from novelty act to pop culture icon.

Certainly he's a better representative than Esther Ciccone, but in the back of my mind I worry about things like what's going on at 770 and how that shapes the public perception (although I don't know anything about Matisyahu personally, but I'd say it's a valid concern). And of course, any time we start to get real comfortable here, I start to worry about things like this (OK, not really; I just think that clip is funny).

Anyway, Matisyahu definetly has mad skillz, yo. King without a Crown is quite good. He's opening for OAR at Madison Square Garden, so I'll get to see him this time (I'm hooked up for tickets on this one).