Ehhh. I'm with Le1f on most of this, but not the Thrift Shop/Wut thing. The horns from "Wut" were p much ripped off from "Down for My N's" anyway.
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:10 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of Mix, this is a really good interview with him wkiw http://mynorthwest.com/926/2321465/Macklemore-video-shoot-mania-rekindles-fond-memories-for-Seattles-Sir-MixALot
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/a6b3d7c369fdbbaa8a72f2e007972703/tumblr_ms7iawjESv1sgt1uko1_1280.png
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 00:11 (ten years ago) link
(btw sorry, Rev's Big Post of Macklemore Ether is still forthcoming)
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 00:12 (ten years ago) link
naaw xp
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 00:12 (ten years ago) link
FUCK YOU LAGOON, MACKLEMORE IS THE NEW MLK PUBLIC ENEMY SHOULD WRITE A SONG ABOUT ANY STATE THAT HOLDS OUT ON MACKLEMORE DAY
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 00:14 (ten years ago) link
what i meant was macklemore is obvs more important than mlk and public enemy should write a song about any state that holds out on macklemore day
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
i googled and found out that that is an irl student newspaper but i still cant believe the author really meant it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 00:19 (ten years ago) link
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:11 PM (7 minutes ago)
ban college kids
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 28 August 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link
its just a funny joke right
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link
I know we hate Macklemore around here, but dude/his handlers do seem to have gotten the message at least a little bit: at several points during his VMA performance, he ceded the stage to his LGBT backup dancers, Black backup singers, and the former software engineer who sings the hooks on Thrift Shop and Can't Hold Us.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:34 (ten years ago) link
I mean of course Le1f is right, esp. about the line he quotes from Same Love. And maybe the only reason Macklemore got off the stage was so he could better commune with his audience. Still I will acknowledge this token effort to address the concerns of his progressive critics.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
Watching the VMA performance was like watching Sulu on Star Trek: maybe in the eyes of most of the audience, Kirk/Macklemore are the heroes, but Takei/Wanz are proceeding as if they are the protagonists.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:40 (ten years ago) link
wonder what takei's paycheck looked like next to nimoy's
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
or shatner's
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:45 (ten years ago) link
or doohan's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8PLifPUIuic
― alpine static, Monday, 9 September 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
aw man, what'd i do wrong
http://youtu.be/8PLifPUIuic
― alpine static, Monday, 9 September 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
welp, that's all i've got
Crapplesnore.
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 9 September 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
Santiago Caro 29 minutes agoThis video has a MEANING! PAY ATTENTION!! to the LYRICS and the VIDEO. He is criticizing trend. what is supposed to be NEW and what is supposed to be OLD influenced by the labels, industry, Media, music (that's why appears Sir Mix a Lot a rapper from the 90's, and OLD ladys) Also supporting an interracial society, thats why he is wearing mexican clothes, and (sorry for the word) black men loving white old chicks. Macklemore talks about REAL LIFE, also my respect to Ryan Lewis, What a good BEAT! Reply · 5
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 03:22 (ten years ago) link
santiago caro otm
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 03:56 (ten years ago) link
that's a really well-produced song, shame about the macklemore
― Vinetalic - "My Friend Terio" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 04:18 (ten years ago) link
is 'santiago caro' lefsetz' twitter name or something
― alpine static, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 07:12 (ten years ago) link
i hope this song goes #1 on the charts so billboard can write a headline like "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis erect 'White Walls' around Hot 100 penthouse"
― dyl, Thursday, 3 October 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link
to be fair i do like the production and consequently it is the first macklemore song that does not inspire me to instantly switch the station. it would be better as an instrumental but w/e
― dyl, Thursday, 3 October 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QtlNq-K9_s
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
Macklemore is the first contextually post-black pop-star rapper.
― mick signals, Friday, 15 November 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
was waiting for this
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:03 (ten years ago) link
me too and then I stopped waiting
― mick signals, Friday, 15 November 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
i think the point is kinda getting bastardized on twitter, imo all he's saying is that macklemore's the first huge rapper whose music is targeted strictly at white listeners. which is true.
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
maybe the sentence is easier to parse for music nerds who follow the charts closely and are aware that black artists very rarely breaks into, like, the top 10? idk
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
yeah people are def misconstruing that but its ok cause he also called macklemore 'a good rapper' in the same piece
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 November 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
macklemore's the first huge rapper whose music is targeted strictly at white listeners. which is true.
Did 1999 not happen?
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
who was in 1999
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 November 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
are you talking about eminem?
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
shawn mullins technically isn't a "rapper"
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
tbf post-black is a pretty provocative and vague way to phrase it
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 November 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link
i think the thing that ppl on twitter are missing about this is the word "contextually" ... plenty of writers have made the case for pop in 2013 -- the context around macklemore -- being "post-black."
there was nothing "post-black" at all about pop when eminem came up. or in a more granular sense about eminem at all, who came up thru battle rap culture in detroit and who was surrounded by/collaborated with black rappers and producers.
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
and his music was enjoyed by many black people
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 November 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
tho not so much anymore id imagine
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 November 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
has eminem become post black
free thinkpiece you guys
Was actually thinking more along the lines of ICP, but we could of course keep moving these goal posts till the gays get married.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
ICP was never really Macklemore huge, though
― guitar is coffee (DJP), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
there has def been rap for and by wites its just never been #1 chart material before
xp
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 November 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
its crazy how anticonesque he is, bet its got some retired beardo rappers feeling sort of self conscious right now
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 November 2013 20:01 (ten years ago) link
not that they werent self conscious already right folks
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 November 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
yeah "pop-star rapper" is a key part of that sentence
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 November 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
I missed a lot of these asterisks. Because I didn't read the article. ._.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 15 November 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link