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:
― alpine static, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 17:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
The song's not great but the message is expressed well. Hats off to him.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 17:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
^my thoughts exactly
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 17:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
the number one album on iTunes
"The Heist" Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
Leftsetz is excited about the "Jimmy Iovine" song
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
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.
― fish frosch (seandalai), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:23 (7 months ago) Permalink
fuck these guys and the safe, acceptable, Bellevue High School class of 2014-enabled horse they rode in on
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:29 (7 months ago) Permalink
that's not very hug-a-thuggable
― Technology of the Big Muff (DJP), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:30 (7 months ago) Permalink
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Gelados n cream (longneck), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
hearty lol @ "I'm a whore 4 Macklemore"
― Technology of the Big Muff (DJP), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:38 (7 months ago) Permalink
"best song" would imply he has any good ones
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:40 (7 months ago) Permalink
oh hey now, I'm looking at that girl in the lower middle right next to her friend in the orange top.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:44 (7 months ago) Permalink
― 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.
― Gelados n cream (longneck), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
"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
― Technology of the Big Muff (DJP), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 21:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 21:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
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.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 21:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
^^ 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.
― Gelados n cream (longneck), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 21:13 (7 months ago) Permalink
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."
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 21:40 (7 months ago) Permalink
there's a generation of Atmosphere fans out there
― rap game klaus nomi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 21:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
never forget
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 21:50 (7 months ago) Permalink
Yeah I guess he's the new Slug, really. Atmosphere had some good songs though.
― Gelados n cream (longneck), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 21:55 (7 months ago) Permalink
Atmosphere are the only band I've ever heckled
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 21:57 (7 months ago) Permalink
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, 9 October 2012 22:19 (7 months ago) Permalink
― 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.
― some dude, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 22:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
― JoeStork, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 3:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I said his fans did, not him
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 22:22 (7 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 22:23 (7 months ago) Permalink
none of atmosphere are white tho
― rap game klaus nomi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 22:25 (7 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 22:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
Mack L'Amour would be a good name for a Heavy D type rapper
― some dude, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 22:29 (7 months ago) Permalink
and just now Macklemore is on the radio rapping intensely and earnestly about his battle for sobriety
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 22:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
ha some dude
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 22:34 (7 months ago) Permalink
according to my facebook feed over the last 20 minutes The Gays are Sold
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 22:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
oh lord
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 22:55 (7 months ago) Permalink
Dick's is the place where the cool hang out.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 23:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
I've never liked their burgers tbh. I did meet Tabes outside of Dick's tho!
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 23:50 (7 months ago) Permalink
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?
― fadanuf4erybody, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 00:26 (7 months ago) Permalink
also, what the fuck even is this:
― fadanuf4erybody, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 00:30 (7 months ago) Permalink
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.
― some dude, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 00:42 (7 months ago) Permalink
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
― fadanuf4erybody, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 00:52 (7 months ago) Permalink
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
― some dude, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 00:54 (7 months ago) Permalink
I don't love this dude, but it's hard to hate thrift shop
― has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 02:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
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)
― zachylon (zachlyon), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 02:29 (7 months ago) Permalink
― 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.
― Gelados n cream (longneck), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 06:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
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
― rap game klaus nomi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:52 (7 months ago) Permalink
they're gonna do no. 1 on billboard next week
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
actually i guess mumfords are gonna go no. 1 again, but macklemore will be up there
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:56 (7 months ago) Permalink
macklemore is ill-suited to curmudgery
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 01:31 (1 month ago) Permalink
I don't mind Karmin
Macklemore can die in a fire tho
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 01:35 (1 month ago) Permalink
.....
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 01:37 (1 month ago) Permalink
we live in a world where Drake is making bank, in that landscape Karmin is the definition of "lesser of two evils"
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 01:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
if you watch the snl performance on mute and with no prior knowledge of macklemore you will very possibly mistake it for an snl performance from the early 90s
― infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 01:44 (1 month ago) Permalink
there is no greater evil than karmin, not even macklemore
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 01:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
ya drake is mozart to those two
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:04 (1 month ago) Permalink
Karmin ia irritating but I can detect talent there; call it the Jessie J Effect
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 03:03 (1 month ago) Permalink
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 9:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the Karmin version of "Started From The Bottom" is better than the original, or at least more hilariously trolly
― HOOSTEENA/The Steens of God (some dude), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 04:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://observer.com/2013/04/you-would-have-done-the-same-woman-chokes-out-boyfriend-for-singing-macklemores-thrift-store-repeatedly/
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 05:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
i don't know where you guys come from saying that it's terrible thin music... i would probably like the song if not for the brats who perform it. knowing how insufferably turdy macklemore and ryan lewis are causes me a great deal of anguish like noooo why do i have to hate this soooong
p.s. i also say "mac-ull-more" but i think the argument for "mac-le-more" might come from vintage seattle mariners utility player mark mclemore (mac-le-more), who our boy is supposedly named after
― cocktail onion (fennel cartwright), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 05:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
wow that is a name i have not heard in forever
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 06:14 (1 month ago) Permalink
i've had this fucking song in my head all day and i've wanted to cut my head off all day, can we please just close this thread
― infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 06:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
catchiness can often be an indicator of quality but not when it makes you wish you were never born
catchiness is an indicator of the quality of catchiness
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 12:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
I heard the new Macklemore single and thought it was B.o.B. at first
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 20:53 (1 month ago) Permalink
What's the deal with B.o.B. anyway? All I know about him is that he raps on "Airplanes," and I like that tune.
― jaymc, Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:03 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 20:57 (1 month ago) Permalink
he's a clown
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:00 (1 month ago) Permalink
he might be the most recent chart-topper that i've completely forgotten about
― infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 21:03 (1 month ago) Permalink
so this is a p standard shitty article about racism with one interesting/unintentionally hilarious + sad fact:
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2013/04/19/racial-mockery-hopkins-high-sparks-outrage-black-student-handcuffed
The incident began on Feb. 13; when eight to 10 white members of the school's ski team came to school dressed in motley ensembles of do-rags, fur coats, white tank top undershirts, sagging pants and gold chains. One even had a fake marijuana joint tucked behind his ear. Somehow word spread that the students were celebrating a "Ghetto Spirit Day." Those who came to school in costume dispute this assertion, and claimed to school administrators that they were dressing up to mimic popular white rapper, Macklemore, who sings "Thrift Shop."
― 乒乓, Sunday, 21 April 2013 18:57 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I dunno, the whole repeatedly being sanctimonious towards black people in his lyrics thing gives me a special hate-on towards him
wait, this guy has MORE songs with casual racism? ugh.
― monotony, Monday, 22 April 2013 03:58 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I - I - I'm hunting, looking for a come-up
One man's trash, that's another man's come-up
Is "come-up" a real phrase or is he trying to make it happen?
― how's life, Monday, 22 April 2013 11:54 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
tis a rare thing when someone can establish themselves as less aware of entry level slang than macklemore, let's all politely look away in embarrassment
― some dude, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:11 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
the weather sure did turn cold today
― 乒乓, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:12 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
although granted it's unacceptable that macklemoose puts it in the song twice, neither time really in the way anyone else would use it xp
― some dude, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:13 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Nah you're forcing it, there are enough reasons to clown Macklemore without picking that shit out.
― Studied keyboard mash (tsrobodo), Monday, 22 April 2013 14:26 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
tis a rare thing when someone can establish themselves as less aware of entry level slang than macklemore, let's all politely look away in embarrassment― some dude, Monday, April 22, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalinktis a rare thing when someone can establish themselves as less aware of entry level slang than macklemore, let's all politely look away in embarrassment― some dude, Monday, April 22, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― some dude, Monday, April 22, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well how should it be used? I've never heard it before, but it sounded really awkward.
― how's life, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:35 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
second quote should be some dude's second post, obviously.
― how's life, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:36 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I like it better this way, it's like a superior version of Amanda Palmer's Dzhokhar Tsarnaev poem
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Monday, 22 April 2013 14:37 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
you don't know how to use the phrase "come up"
― some dude, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:43 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
In the usage "to come up", yeah. But I've never heard "a come-up", which is what Macklemoo is doing here.
― how's life, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:51 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
when used as a noun it's usually "on the come-up" (or "creepin on ah come up" in bone thugs terms)
― some dude, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:53 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
― Z S up HOOS down (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 22 April 2013 14:57 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Oh ok. I never listened to Bone Thugs! I guess it has some legitimacy. It sounds really weird, especially the way he lets it out there twice in the same song.
― how's life, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:57 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
i hope this will explain it once and for all from the website urbandictionary.com
1. come up Share on twitter Share on facebook Share on more1324 up, 323 downA bargain, or a found item that is of value to the finder."One man's trash, that's another man's come up." - from Thrift Shop by Macklemore
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:27 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
lmao
― some dude, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:40 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
hahaha
― Z S up HOOS down (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 02:16 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
there are enough reasons to clown Macklemore without picking that shit out
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 02:25 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
still funny tho
― Z S up HOOS down (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 02:37 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
hey i'm laughing at urbandictionary now
― some dude, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:00 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
that's such a shitty line tho
― infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:15 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
every macklemore line just has this "look ma i'm rapping!!!" subtext
"that's great, honey"
― infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:16 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
lol oym
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:30 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
otm too
ha yeah
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:31 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
back at #1 with "Can't Hold Us" :/
― The Reverend, Thursday, 9 May 2013 05:43 (1 week ago) Permalink
I tried to listen to that "Can't Hold Us", but got as far as that "return of the mack" line before exiting the browser in protest.
― Greer, Thursday, 9 May 2013 06:43 (1 week ago) Permalink
i've switched the station many times due to this song
― dyl, Thursday, 9 May 2013 07:54 (1 week ago) Permalink
of course it is also #1 on r&b/hip-hop songs despite not registering on r&b/hip-hop airplay at all (correct me if i am wrong, sometimes i am bad at using the billboard site)
― dyl, Thursday, 9 May 2013 08:00 (1 week ago) Permalink
No, you're right. It's nowhere to be found on hip-hop airplay charts. Thrift Shop also only got as high as #47 there as well and even that was only after some stations probably felt compelled to play what was the #1 hip-hop song in the country at the time according to Billboard. Though that makes me wonder how their label approached getting them on the radio. Did they approach hip-hop stations who just had no interest in playing his songs, or did they avoid hip-hop radio entirely and only go for pop, alt, rhythmic and HAC radio?
― Greer, Thursday, 9 May 2013 08:20 (1 week ago) Permalink