Macklemore, "Same Love"

I didn't know whether to put this in the Frank Ocean thread, the XXL Freshmen thread, or the rolling terrible songs of 2012 thread (not because I think this is terrible, but because he has been clowned repeatedly there):

http://www.macklemore.com

Say what you will, but good for him, and I don't mind the song either.

Oh, and here's the cover. His uncles:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/412546/SAMELOVE-BLOG-WEB.jpg

The song's not great but the message is expressed well. Hats off to him.

^my thoughts exactly

the number one album on iTunes

"The Heist" Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Leftsetz is excited about the "Jimmy Iovine" song

I just saw the video for Same Love the other day. Touching.

I like "Thrift Shop" too, even if it's corny as fuck. Thanks for reminding me the album came out today.

that is kind of incredible to me given that I only know Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for their contribution to the Worst Fake Irish Songs of All Time canon.

fuck these guys and the safe, acceptable, Bellevue High School class of 2014-enabled horse they rode in on

that's not very hug-a-thuggable

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/486885_456721987704860_2045808381_n.jpg

So what is his best song? I feel completely out of the loop with this guy, but it looks as if he's blowing up from some sort of grassroots movement.

hearty lol @ "I'm a whore 4 Macklemore"

"best song" would imply he has any good ones

oh hey now, I'm looking at that girl in the lower middle right next to her friend in the orange top.

"best song" would imply he has any good ones

― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 9:40 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, the man has fans. I'm assuming he has some decent songs at least but don't really want to waste my time looking for them. So I'm hoping someone knows about some that are better than the others. I'm pretty liberal. I can enjoy some Mac Miller once in a while and understand his appeal completely. This guy, though? It must be in there somewhere.

"life's too short" is the weakest, most mockable dismissal to levy against someone's desire to check out a musician, but... well, life's too short

I know it's dumb to compare white rappers to each other just because they're white, but Macklemore already has two more songs I like than Yelawolf and Mac Miller put together.

my basic take on this dude is: "whatever, i like the songs i've heard pretty well"

it's easy to hate the easily hated.

^^ otm, except that I haven't really heard anything I like.

I think what's interesting is that Macklemore seems to be actually crossing over big time without any real media backing outside of the XXL freshmen cover. No one is really paying attention, "important" bloggers and writers are treating him as a joke but sells out shows everywhere (or so I'm told). Mac Miller already did that, but at least he had the Wiz connection, you know? But Mac is too easy to hate and so is Macklemore. So I'm thinking there's something we're missing here, probably. I'm fine with not liking everything the kids like but I like to understand what's going on.

I deal with condescending white liberal Seattlites day in and day out and I have never, not even once when encountering these folks, thought to myself, "you should rap."

there's a generation of Atmosphere fans out there

never forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp_lW7yYgiM

Yeah I guess he's the new Slug, really. Atmosphere had some good songs though.

Atmosphere are the only band I've ever heckled

tbf he did go to Garfield, not Bellevue High. I'm not about to start bragging to anyone that he went to my high school though.

I think what's interesting is that Macklemore seems to be actually crossing over big time without any real media backing outside of the XXL freshmen cover. No one is really paying attention, "important" bloggers and writers are treating him as a joke but sells out shows everywhere (or so I'm told). Mac Miller already did that, but at least he had the Wiz connection, you know? But Mac is too easy to hate and so is Macklemore. So I'm thinking there's something we're missing here, probably. I'm fine with not liking everything the kids like but I like to understand what's going on.

― Gelados n cream (longneck), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 5:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imo it's just the same 'certain strain of white kids that are mainly interested in white rappers' that's been around in different forms for ages, rallying around the beasties, then v.ice, then house of pain, icp, eminem, atmosphere, etc etc etc. the other day i saw a 12 year old girl in a mac miller shirt walking around target w/ her mom.

tbf he did go to Garfield, not Bellevue High. I'm not about to start bragging to anyone that he went to my high school though.

― JoeStork, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 3:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I said his fans did, not him

I think I got tired of being told by earnest white kids who would be repulsed by the idea of listening to Jay-Z or Lil Wayne that I should listen to Macklemore, ooooh, about 5 years ago.

none of atmosphere are white tho

The Heist is inventive and original. In fact, this album is almost perfect. Except, however, for one song. “White Walls ft. ScHoolBoy Q & Hollis” glamorizes the offensively stereotypical rap favorites of Cadillacs, rims, and hoes. ScHoolBoy Q’s verse, with lines like “White hoes in the back seat snorting coke” are so glaringly out of place that I’ve been trying to figure out if I’m misinterpreting the song. On an album that attacks name brands, eschews misogyny for inclusiveness, and chronicles substance abuse, hoes snorting coke in a Cadillac seem out of place. It’s a sour note that throws off the rest of the otherwise brilliant album.

Mack L'Amour would be a good name for a Heavy D type rapper

and just now Macklemore is on the radio rapping intensely and earnestly about his battle for sobriety

ha some dude

according to my facebook feed over the last 20 minutes The Gays are Sold

oh lord

Dick's is the place where the cool hang out.

I've never liked their burgers tbh. I did meet Tabes outside of Dick's tho!

I finally heard some of this guy's stuff and it just seems like the logical extension of a lot of the underground rap that was predominantly popular with white teenagers--he's definitely a more humorless Slug, but I could see this kinda thing ticking boxes for people who were also really into, like, Eyedea or Cunninlynguists.

That being said, I have liked a couple songs by all three of those and nothing this guy has put out seems remotely close to listenable? What is the appeal beyond him "not rapping about hoes and cars," because the lyrics can't be it?

also, what the fuck even is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhf5cuXiLTA

What is the appeal beyond him "not rapping about hoes and cars," because the lyrics can't be it?

― fadanuf4erybody, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 8:26 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

conscious rap has always been one of those genres defined more by what it's not about than what it's about.

yeah i get that, but this kinda thing is so separate from the actual genre in a way closer to mac miller than, i dunno, any of those '00s white guys or talib kweli. honestly shocked that schoolboy q has a verse on this, just so out of place

i think there's some rule that every rapper who becomes famous or semi-famous the same year has to do a song together, no matter how little sense it makes

I don't love this dude, but it's hard to hate thrift shop

and maaaan I tried

i can't decide if his voice sounds more exactly like slug's or buck 65's (all wite rappers sound the same)

Mack L'Amour would be a good name for a Heavy D type rapper

― some dude, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 11:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If Macklemore changed his name to Mack L'Amour I'd become a fan.

I still wouldn't buy his music though. I'd just, you know, defend him on the internet.

I still define conscious rap as afrocentric, this post atmosphere stuff feels different imo

they're gonna do no. 1 on billboard next week

actually i guess mumfords are gonna go no. 1 again, but macklemore will be up there

so forks just pointed out the existence of the song "My Dick" by 3OH!3 on another thread and, after listening to that and looking back at "White Privilege II", things could be SO MUCH WORSE

― its subtle brume (DJP)

Yeah, it coulda been "White Dick"

/Macklemore may be looped in with the likes of Miley Cyrus and Iggy Azalea when it comes to criticism surrounding the appropriation of black culture, but he's making a clear point today in separating himself from them.

In fact, the rapper just dropped his latest song with Ryan Lewis called "White Privilege II"—a follow-up to the original 2005 track "White Privilege"—in which he not only expresses his determination to rally behind the black community, but he also calls out both Cyrus and Azalea for their lack of attention to the people they "stole" their music from./

http://www.eonline.com/news/733272/macklemore-calls-out-miley-cyrus-and-iggy-azalea-for-appropriating-black-culture-in-white-privilege-ii
--o. nate

Dying that E! had to get this up so fast that they completely missed the point of this verse

Truly the Randy Newman of our time

They are unambiguously positive things. I don't think that makes the song any good.

― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, January 22, 2016 7:05 PM (4 hours ago)

Agreed! I was asking to see just how committed this community is to giving dude even the teensiest tiniest shred of credit for anything at all.

http://www.okayafrica.com/news/same-love-kenya-cover-macklemore-lgbt-rights/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EataOQvPII&feature=youtu.be

when i grow up i want macklemore to eat my asshole

― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Saturday, June 22, 2013 8:59 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:]

http://i.imgur.com/1dDg3bp.png

Damn that's crazy

it's at 80k now but still pretty dire

can't wait until the music industry bubble finally bursts and we learn the last CD actually sold was in 1998

Adele just sold 5 million CDs but that's definitely the last time that will ever happen

sold them to an unmarked warehouse

yeah if macklemore was around in the mid 1990s he'd probably have sold like 20 million records

i guess that's what you call cosmic justice

perhaps he will mackle less now

i mean he probably should, i feel

"mackle less"

About 2,170 results (0.48 seconds)

"mackleless"

About 6,750 results (0.56 seconds)

This doesn't feel right. I would have thought way more. Am I spelling something wrong?

shit, there were probably that many results on a given day on Twitter

was thinking the same

Opposite to macklemore is macklebeg u ignorant yanks

I just assumed most of Macklemore's fanbase have moved on to other things like Twenty One Pilots or Hamilton.

Deservedly in both cases.

I just assumed most of Macklemore's fanbase have moved on to other things like Twenty One Pilots or Hamilton.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/img/ah/g-eazy/aragon-ballroom/g-eazy-1.jpg

oh hi crüt did you have a question, you can lower your hand :)

Minneapolis date tickets just popped up on Groupon, ouch

that is exquisite

Seriously? Even here he's playing a relatively small place, not typically befitting a multiplatinum superstar. Wow, I guess that's not sold out either? Ouch. Which buyer's remorse is worse, him or Iggy?

haha okay I know this was originally annnounced as a Target Center show (where the Timberwolves play) now it's at the "U.S. Bank Theater at Target Center"

U.S. Bank Theater[edit]
Target Center can convert into a 2,500-to-7,500-seat theater known as the U.S. Bank Theater. The Theater contains a moveable floor-to-ceiling curtain system that allows the venue to be transformed based on specific show needs. In addition to concerts, the U.S. Bank Theater can also be used for family and Broadway shows.[24]

aka your show sold shit

"Thrift Shop" rewrite: "Groupon Deal"

...or the Weird Al version. Did he do a Macklemore already?

He just put Thrift Shop into a polka, which is what he usually does when he can't figure out good parody ideas for popular songs.

I'm gonna scalp some tix
got front row seats in my pocket
What is this, no business
this is fucking bullshit

i saw him a few years ago and it wasn't terrible in the context of how i imagined i would feel about a macklemore concert

same. saw him in a 1000-cap shithole just before he broke big and he was pretty enjoyable. but i def pass for a Macklepologist around here

he's (among others) headlining Roskilde, orange stage holds up to 70000 people... will maybe seem empty

http://drw5li4pnyc3g.cloudfront.net/2004/rf16-poster-meta-1200x630.png

tenacious d is still a thing?

lol I read that as Roadkill Festival, which seems about right

Haters gonna hate:

http://www.citypages.com/music/macklemore-at-target-center-an-embarrassing-timeline-8343245

this piece is bad

yea man check this out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3mC__9qNoA

xpost

tenacious d is still a thing?

― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, June 9, 2016 3:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

holy shit this came out 3 years ago?

ugh this song, fucking die

as the commenter suggests the Lambert line would probably be intended to reflect on her own sexuality, not Macklemore's

how did you not post this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGAAMQLb4ZE

holy shit this came out 3 years ago?

two years later:

ugh this song, fucking die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUj-65MxhEA

Ah yes.

https://www.xxlmag.com/news/2019/11/macklemore-magician-magic-rap-album/

wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq-NShfefks

fred durst runs a magic themed jazz night in LA

white rappers are magic