Macklemore, "Same Love"

it's basically "Gangnam Style," goofy pop rap satire of materialism w/ a viral video

who is ryan lewis btw? is he a producer?

oh he's this douche singing

no that's Wanz, Ryan Lewis is the producer

man the rhymesayers dudes must be kinda salty watching this dude go huge with a way worse version of their style

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:05 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's wonderful to watch white rappers have their music stolen by the white man

o god this is the dude w/ that one song I didn't know

for sake of balance, i'm posting this dope circa-2000 local hit

http://thanorthwest.com/samples/audio8/uaua5.mp3

http://s.discogss.com/image/R-109345-1278180783.jpeg

have any other "independent" tracks gone #1 on the Hot 100 in the last few years? I'm trying to think of other examples but can't think of any

rev doing the lords work itt

tho its p funny too how the rest of Ilx/rap cant even be bothered

anyway I have a complaint re the thrifting song, maklmor is so obvs a menswear bro not some sort of fun 2nd hand shopper

willy
‏@willystaley
Macklemore 2012: "Thrift Shop" Macklemore 2014: "H&M and Uniqlo" Macklemore 2016: "J.Crew"

ahaha

2018 apc

hadn't heard of these guys (is it one guy?) at all but a friend was raving and posting links about them on twitter the other morning - I finally clicked on one and it totally ruined my day. horrifying stuff.

I met the table is the table in front of Dick's on Broadway (true story)

this was the first place i ate when i was there!

i still haven't heard this guy

ok i've heard this guy now and oyyyyy

Here's a short mix of Charles Mudede's top 20 Seattle Hip Hop tracks for 2012 if you want to know what else was happening around town.

https://soundcloud.com/pop-life-recordings/best-of-seattle-hip-hop-2012-1

Fresh Espresso - “Goodnight Sinatra”

lol

charles mudede is kinda crazy fyi

Charles Mudede is a fucking genius. Crazy? Perhaps, but aren't all brilliant minds?

while we're in the shop

http://i.imgur.com/w0NABTK.jpg

& http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=4124

awesome

Swass by Sir Mix-a-Lot was weirdly big in my little MN farm town, like Mix was as big as Run-DMC or LL or NWA or Slick Rick or Too Short whatever else was going on...bunch of dudes wore the swass shirt and fake mercedes chains

ha, i was just engaged in "why 'same love' is bad" with noz on twitter

― The Reverend, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

you should pitch this somewhere

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:00 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's an impt point

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:00 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i kind of don't get this -- i can see why same love is 'bad' but i don't see why it's importantly bad

i think the level of hate being evinced for guy is kinda sad tbh

I love when max posts his mail:

max read ‏@max_read

"Okay motherfucker. Clearly you don't understand the lyrical genius Macklemore includes in his music. "

max read ‏@max_read

"In this way he uses sarcasm to flaunt the way his clothes are unique, cooler,

max read ‏@max_read

and give him more style then the expensive shit everyone else in the "rap game" brags about."

max read ‏@max_read

"I fucking grew up in Richmond Virginia. I'm Black."

didmax write something abt macklemore

"I fucking grew up in Richmond Virginia. I'm Black."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFY2kJ96jNY

feel like im in some alternate universe where Cock Mobster was an inescapable smash hit. except this is way worse

well, the radio edit "Rock Lobster" was quite popular

Ha! xp

ha! xp again

the thing that's weird about the thrift store song, when hearing it on the radio, is how chintzy and un-current it sounds. sounds like he got that mf'in beat at the thrift shop. anyway, that's all i have to say about this guy who i was hoping to die without ever listening to.

what a disaster for marriage equality

intro printmaking class has their first projects up on the wall - one was titled "Same Love", another from a different student was titled "Thrift Store"

should've said "this one's titled MY FIST" and punched them off the wall

haha

i hear this song at the gym all the time and all i ever hear is the sax and the chorus, the raps are completely inaudible on the gym speakers fwiw

they were playing a macklemore song as bumper music on my local sports talk radio station

xpost that's like how this lady in my office plays the radio at such a low volume that the only thing i ever hear at my desk is the synth line to "we found love" 5 to 6 times a day

haha yeah workplaces and other situations where radio is kept at an almost subliminal volume is one of my biggest pet peeves

yeah just hear the faintest hi-hat patterns and shit, so annoying

really the most offensive part of this song is the blatant Nate Dogg imitation on the hook

i just listened to this song for the first time

holy shit this nate dogg thing is unbelievable

this is like if nate dogg's career had gone horribly wrong in the 90s and he had collaborated with LFO

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1537520/wanz-qa-meet-the-f-ing-awesome-singer-in-thrift-shop

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

i honestly didn't mind that part of the song that much until i learned they wrote it purposefully as a faux-nate dogg hook, ugh

this thread is great