Exclusive Stream: Matisyahu's Feel-Good 'Miracle' EP

Matisyahu, 'Miracle' EP

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Reggae star Matisyahu's latest EP is a celebration of his Jewish faith, but the singer made a point of avoiding familiar clichés. "I recorded Miracle aiming to make a celebratory, feel-good song that still gets across the depth of Judaism rather than the typical watered-down Jewish humor about matzoh balls and Hanukkah Harry," he says. "I'm trying to make the Jewish kids out there proud."

You can stream Matisyahu's Miracle EP in full now, and check him out in concert on his Festival of Light tour of the East Coast.
 

Dec 19             Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Dec 20             Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Dec 21             Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Dec 22             New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Dec 24             Philadelphia, PA @ TLA
Dec 26             Portland, ME @ State Theatre
Dec 27             Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
Dec 28             Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club

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“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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