i really thought for a second that this was one of those times where i was too autistic to get that it was a joke, but no, apparently macklemore figured it out.
When he came out to call for a ceasefire last year, the next episode of Chapo had Felix yell something along the lines of "THESE [liberal media] FUCKS ARE DUMBER THAN MACKLEMORE! A guy who thought he was gay because he cleaned his bedroom!"
Seems like he didn't just stumble into it, dude's been on the right side for a while
heartening to see Macklemore return to his roots. before he popped off decade ago, he was running in anti-capitalist radical circles in the west coast & did few fundraiser shows for us (grassroots anti-colonial, anti-capitalist migrant justice group). movements keep us grounded.
Love and respect to the west coast artists then and STILL holding it down for liberation, like Gabriel Teodros, Abyssinian Creole, Khingz who introduced me/us to Macklemore and invited him to be part of our events and into community & movement spaces.
https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia/status/1787643511451562328?t=Xg3Kdho0mP8ARXFyHPyMYQ&s=19
I think he is genuine, but if I were to tell someone a decade ago that the Thrift Shop guy will outflank the Labour/Democratic party on the left on race issues and Palestine, I don't think they would believe me.
Thrift shop is an anti-consumerism song tho
That’s because all people listened to on that album was thrift shop and can’t hold us. Now listen to Make the Money, Jimmy Iovine, A Wake, and Gold, and tell me he doesn’t seem like a leftist. Better yet, listen to his earlier work where he’s talking about cultural appropriation and the opioid epidemic.
Reminds me of how Psy was revealed to be singing metal songs advocating for the killing and torture of American soldiers as revenge for the murders of Koreans and Iraqis before he got famous
Psy was revealed to be singing metal songs advocating for the killing and torture of American soldiers as revenge for the murders of Koreans and Iraqis
Hahaha, no fucking way. Can you link that?
He's got 20 good takes in his pocket.
I mean they're pretty milquetoast takes compared to what we're packing, but apparently having "good takes" was enough to win a grammy a decade ago
props to him for just saying straight up "i'm not voting for biden he's complicit in genocide"
really makes everyone else who isn't even making a statement look like cowards when fucking macklemore does an entire song dedicated to palestine and just saying the damn thing
I would be more surprised if you could find someone out of the 00s-10s Seattle rap scene that is pro-Israel.
Macklemore's always been kinda left-conscious. Hard to fault him for having his heart in the right place
pardon me, who/what is macklemore and why is it remarkable that he has a good take on something?
He was a briefly popular white rapper like a decade or so ago. He was never amazing but got played a lot and people got tired of him. I don't think he was complete garbGe, bit he definitely got the white rapper treatment. Then he just disappeared from the public concipusness.
His hits were about gay people deserving better treatment and about how he shopped at the thrift store cuz that's how a lot of people out on the streets dressed and that there's notjong wrong with that.
At best, a likable socially-conscious cornball just stole the spotlight from rap's biggest feud
So he's a white rapper whose number 1 hit from a decade ago opens with
Walk into the club like "whaddup, I got a big cock"
His second had a line that said he was "somewhere between Rocky (Balboa) and (Bill) Cosby", shortly before the allegations of SA became widespread. Not quite MF DOOM in terms of lyrics.
Both hits were really popular with hot couch guys, dance clubs and frat bros.
So people kind of assumed he was either apolitical or worse yet, a chud.
But then he came out with a pro BLM song during the George Floyd protests, and more recently he called for a ceasefire last year before Bernie and AOC did.
his one big album also had a (cringey straight guy trying to be a good ally) song where he talked about how he was super pro-gay rights, so i assumed he was a lib but i never thought he was a chud
I remember doing the math like, "Yeah, I'm good at little league."
A pre-conceived idea of what it all meant
For those that like the same sex had the characteristics
The right-wing conservatives think it's a decision
And you can be cured with some treatment and religionMan-made, rewiring of a pre-disposition
Playing God, aw nah, here we go
America the brave still fears what we don't know
"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago
I don't knowIf I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily
We've become so numb to what we're sayin'Our culture founded from oppression
Yet, we don't have acceptance for 'em
Call each other removeds behind the keys of a message board
A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it
"Gay" is synonymous with the lessernot exactly the first brick at stonewall but for a cishet dude in 2011 it's pretty good
A one hit wonder from a decade ago.
Does Macklemore have a reputation for bad takes or something? I'm only aware of his anti-Bush song, anti-consumerist song, that random pro-body acceptance line/scene in that one song, and I'm not even a fan.
He's good politically, just corny. He's never been known as a particularly good rapper, and you can't really be remembered or have any kind of legacy as a white rapper unless you have something better than just good politics to bring to the table. See: Aesop Rock. Also strong left political positions, but what elevates someone like him to being respected (even if only in the underground) is his caliber as a writer and his 500 IQ flow. Macklemore never had anything like that to build a reputation on, commercial success on a couple of tracks aside.
He’s had reasonably based music for a long time.
