Matisyahu discusses a personal moment behind a public choice.
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Sir, I was 160 lbs. You know, I was macrobiotic at the time. I had had a cyst on my vocal cord and I was living in my voice teacher's house on the Upper West Side and I was on complete vocal silence. So, I was away from my family again, not talking, doing like eight voice lessons a day, short ones, like 10 voice, but not talking in between. You feel that self alienation. And then I had some kind of stomach issue that I was trying instead of taking antibiotics, I was trying to heal with macrobiotics. So, I was already like 4 months deep into just eating brown rice
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- 0:00Sir, I was 160 lbs. You know, I was macrobiotic at the time. I had had…
- 0:31months deep into just eating brown rice and stuff. So, you know, I shaved my beard…
- 1:01hell?" That's the whole It's like Kiss showing up without makeup. Yeah.…
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