Hi ploniyid,
I suggest you are very unfamiliar with the topic even though you mean well.
Those of us who like Matisyahu’s music before all this happened know very well the criticisms of him parroted in knee-jerk reaction from almost every yid we ever mentioned his name to.
….Please…to say the yidden wanted him to shine, is just naive.
Do you really know about this subject prior to the shaving of his beard?
I have seen him numerous times in concert…how about you? You cant tell someone you went to a concert of his or like his music without 99 percent of fellow yidden having to put him down for more reasons than I can count.