Macklemore, "Same Love"

followed by vintage Scarface and then Drop it Like Its Hot

KDAY is amazing every city should be so lucky

yup, an oasis in a wasteland

One thing that's great about KDAY is they will play just about any track off of Chronic 2001, not just the singles

*sigh* i wish BBC Radio Humberside played "Fuck You" on the reg

I listen to KDAY every day

or at least when I drive I guess

Heard "Fuck You" more than once on KDAY

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fuck wit KDAY (and everybody's celebratin')

listening to 3 years, 5 mo., and 2 days in the life of arrested development....this ain't so bad actually

on the heels of all the (much less popular/praised) first wave of Native Tongues stuff I just found it really irritating and kind of pompous

granted I haven't listened to it in at least 15 years

well like i ain't throwing out my copies of 3 feet high and rising or done by the forces of nature or anything

i dunno...it's more dated now so it feels loveable like an artifact of a certain era

sometimes they hit on a real nice bluesy/downhome more live instrument focused version of the native sound

that album is one of those things i've hated so long that i don't think i could stop now

speaking of jungle brothers it never really registered to me how much Speech bit Baby Bam from Jungle Brothers whole flow

really?!

at the time it just seemed really unfair that they were huge and the Jungle Bros were stuff being these obscure also-rans

funny thread: arrested development: classic or dud?

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/05/macklemore_s_offensive_costume_is_part_of_pop_s_long_history_of_appropriation.html

Carl Wilson weighs in (with asides re Katy Perry and others, plus tv shows)

I like when he briefly notes that warning against immediate indignation might be easy for him considering he's in none of the appropriated cultures

Not that it keeps him from writing a thinkpiece about whether or not people are too shortsightedly judgey these days

"But in its day, it was all received as respectable, good fun—to the degree that the Jewfaced or yellowfaced performers were often Jews or Asians themselves, joining in with degrees of enthusiasm or reluctance that are often hard to decipher at this remove."

...

this mongrel land we call planet Earth

Sounds like a line from the end of a Star Trek episode.

Smdh at "we all have different noses" line

clever by half

kinda surprised it took this long for someone from rhymesayers to start cutting on macklemore for being a knockoff

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

ha, I kicked it with Ali once, real cool dude

yeah he's genuinely positive, he does a lot of stuff to get kids school supplies in north mpls and generally can be counted on to be 100% pro labor, anti-police brutality, shows up for damn near any benefit show

wow!

who does mackelmore site as his influences

gay people everywhere

his uncle, drawing, keeping his room tidy

3rd grade

the thrifting movement

ryan lewis

Bro Ali video! <3

Jackie Mason

hahaha man i've watched this like 5 times macklemore sucks so bad glad to hear someone going at him, warms my heart

it's hilarious when sway realized who he's talking about around 50 secs in

the monkey on yr favorite rappers back it matches yours

cn someone rap genius this

it's like he took Ice Cube's "with your manager, fella" line and made a whole rap out of it

crosspost in rap easter eggs thread ^

I was enjoying that and then I hit the "what's a Monkee to a Beatle" line and this is the best thing I've heard all day

hahahaha so now I have to help choreograph a dance to "same love" for work awesome

lol i watched it twice before realizing 80% of it rhymes with "macklemore"

Yeah that's the genius part

yeah, internal rhymes too, not just end rhymes

it's hilarious when sway realized who he's talking about around 50 secs in

yeah

you can see the lightbulb go off