Macklemore, "Same Love"

this thread is great

between this, Urthboy and K'naan it's seeming like a really good year for hip hop pop, or whatever this stuff is, to me. (Plus all the 2010/2011 grime I missed at the time.)

"I didn't know whether to put this in the Frank Ocean thread"

hahahahaha yes i was just gonna post that too.

He was looking for a guy that sounds like Nate Dogg. For a decade, I've been known as the Nate Dogg of North End in Seattle

― dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Friday, February 8, 2013 8:18 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I live in the North End and totally did not know him as the Nate Dogg of North End.

Also might bear mentioning that the North End is the mostly white part of Seattle.

"For a decade, I've been known as the Nate Dogg of North End in Seattle" has a better ring to it than "For a decade, I've been known as the black guy of North End in Seattle"

lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b24E-hZcAIA

http://youtu.be/b24E-hZcAIA

Am I the only one who hears a connection between Hot Chip's Playboy and thrift shop?

i get why this is possible but it ain't really working for me

er, popular = possible

and i mean, fuck, i worked at a salvation army thrift store for two years and at least half my closet is still thrift store finds but i cannot get with this
though i have heard less enjoyable novelty hits in the past 365

btw that NPR piece about "ooh he hired a label for distribution" was some lightweight bullshit. noz tweets otm as usual.

hahaha this song continues to be the worst thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cnm0tdkJEU

she said 'freakin'

<i>he called the shit "poop"</i>

http://mobile.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/02/15/macklemore_nba_ad_with_wings_is_the_rapper_a_sellout.html?original_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slate.com%2Fsearch.html%3Fq%3Dmacklemore

This guy...

http://www.hulu.com/watch/472474?playlist_id=1031

my alma mater got macklemore to play spring fling https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/photos/facepalm.gif

we got Tyga, so some of the pain is being spread around

obv you got more... MACKLEMORE

I still think this guy is by far the least hateful of this generation of frat rappers

I guess by some measurements "Thrift Shop" is slightly better than "I Love College," but otoh the damn, that's a cold ass honky line is the worst thing to ever happen

there hasn't been non-hatable white frat rap* since House of Pain

* black frats exist and they listen to rap too, just in case you forgot; in fact, all rap can be described as "frat rap"

ΝωΑ

in fact, all rap can be described as "frat rap"

― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Monday, April 15, 2013 4:56 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh yeah? what about... uh... that weird eurorapper guy on the original version of 'Self Control'

Macklemore is performing at Preakness this year, but i take some consolation in the fact that he is opening for Pitbull

there hasn't been non-hatable white frat rap* since House of Pain

* black frats exist and they listen to rap too, just in case you forgot; in fact, all rap can be described as "frat rap"

― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Monday, April 15, 2013 4:56 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

house of pain were much more legit than any of our mackelmores, their audience may have been fratty but they themselves werent really those bros

I still think this guy is by far the least hateful of this generation of frat rappers

― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Monday, April 15, 2013 1:52 PM Bookmark

I dunno, the whole repeatedly being sanctimonious towards black people in his lyrics thing gives me a special hate-on towards him. Plus the yeaaaaarrrrs of people trying to shove this guy down me throat.

i'll get me throat

the whole repeatedly being sanctimonious towards black people in his lyrics thing gives me a special hate-on towards him.

^ this

lol typo xp :(

i watched his snl w a friend who had never heard of him and she just couldnt believe it

macklesnore.

Everlast was part of rhyme syndicate way before house of pain so he's hardly frat rap

a couple years ago, i was in a bar and heard this guy explaining really loud and insistent how REAL RAP was better than all that fake shit on TV about bling and guns and cars and shit, that REAL RAP was positive and enlightening, and all the gangsters and dealers and bitches and shit were a con, a commercial ploy, the debasement of a pure form in the hands of perpetrating phonies. there were only about four people in the place, huge place, and i was so fucking to tempted to go over there and beg him to shut up, maybe just hold it down, was so painful to hear. i of course refrained.

just watched "thrift shop". ha! how wrong was i? he's a star.

wait, macklemore was the guy in the bar? not sure I'm reading this right...

and then he gifted me a teal windbreaker, special moment, deep communication

yeah

turns out he's pretty bad, too

oh yeah I forget you are a local

great story tho

was a local, now i'm a million miles away

wait, macklemore was the guy in the bar? not sure I'm reading this right...

― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:33 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha wow totally didt catch that lol

just ctrl-F'd this thread and the word "precious" has not yet been used to describe macklemore

i can deal with "hateful" but can we please cut it out with smugly self-satisfied rappers?

for those who havent seen the snl performance it is for sure appointment tv, even more so than his records it really came through what an amateur he is, like his voice is so wack it didnt cut through the beat or ride the beat or anything it was just obliterated by the beat, but it didnt seem to be a mixing issue, you could hear him but not hear him, its the sort of basic ass thing you could tell he just hasnt noticed or thought about or worked on, and then his whole stage presence was simultaneously so theatrical and so aimless, it didnt have any connection to the music or anything particularly, he was just wearing silly clothes and jumping around arrhythmically , you could tell his whole plan was just to put a ton of energy out there and hopefully the crowd gets hyped up, it was all really crazily entry level, like i already thought he sucked bigtime and i was shocked at how bad it was

sound mix on snl is always ass tho

On the radio here the DJs are particular about pronouncing his name "Mack - luh - more" which is just so much more precious than "Mackel - more", is it really the former?

i was shocked at how bad it was

― lag∞n, Monday, April 15, 2013 11:01 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Macklemore

Everlast was part of rhyme syndicate way before house of pain so he's hardly frat rap

You may have glossed over the part of my post where I objected to the cultural assumptions behind the term "frat rap"

Pomp - luh - moose
Mack - luh - more

My kid is so into Thrift Shop right now. He keeps trying to show me youtubes of like Minecraft Thrift Shop and the like. Yesterday, he was like "you know the part that he sings over and over again? I memorized that!" He pronounces it Mackel-uh-more.