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  • props to him for just saying straight up "i'm not voting for biden he's complicit in genocide"

    really makes everyone else who isn't even making a statement look like cowards when fucking macklemore does an entire song dedicated to palestine and just saying the damn thing

  • Macklemore's always been kinda left-conscious. Hard to fault him for having his heart in the right place

  • pardon me, who/what is macklemore and why is it remarkable that he has a good take on something?

    • He was a briefly popular white rapper like a decade or so ago. He was never amazing but got played a lot and people got tired of him. I don't think he was complete garbGe, bit he definitely got the white rapper treatment. Then he just disappeared from the public concipusness.

      His hits were about gay people deserving better treatment and about how he shopped at the thrift store cuz that's how a lot of people out on the streets dressed and that there's notjong wrong with that.

      At best, a likable socially-conscious cornball just stole the spotlight from rap's biggest feud

    • So he's a white rapper whose number 1 hit from a decade ago opens with

      Walk into the club like "whaddup, I got a big cock"

      His second had a line that said he was "somewhere between Rocky (Balboa) and (Bill) Cosby", shortly before the allegations of SA became widespread. Not quite MF DOOM in terms of lyrics.

      Both hits were really popular with hot couch guys, dance clubs and frat bros.

      So people kind of assumed he was either apolitical or worse yet, a chud.

      But then he came out with a pro BLM song during the George Floyd protests, and more recently he called for a ceasefire last year before Bernie and AOC did.

      • his one big album also had a (cringey straight guy trying to be a good ally) song where he talked about how he was super pro-gay rights, so i assumed he was a lib but i never thought he was a chud

        I remember doing the math like, "Yeah, I'm good at little league."
        A pre-conceived idea of what it all meant
        For those that like the same sex had the characteristics
        The right-wing conservatives think it's a decision
        And you can be cured with some treatment and religion

        Man-made, rewiring of a pre-disposition
        Playing God, aw nah, here we go
        America the brave still fears what we don't know
        "God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten
        But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago
        I don't know

        If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
        Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
        "Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily
        We've become so numb to what we're sayin'

        Our culture founded from oppression
        Yet, we don't have acceptance for 'em
        Call each other removeds behind the keys of a message board
        A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it
        "Gay" is synonymous with the lesser

        not exactly the first brick at stonewall but for a cishet dude in 2011 it's pretty good

    • A one hit wonder from a decade ago.

  • Does Macklemore have a reputation for bad takes or something? I'm only aware of his anti-Bush song, anti-consumerist song, that random pro-body acceptance line/scene in that one song, and I'm not even a fan.

    • He's good politically, just corny. He's never been known as a particularly good rapper, and you can't really be remembered or have any kind of legacy as a white rapper unless you have something better than just good politics to bring to the table. See: Aesop Rock. Also strong left political positions, but what elevates someone like him to being respected (even if only in the underground) is his caliber as a writer and his 500 IQ flow. Macklemore never had anything like that to build a reputation on, commercial success on a couple of tracks aside.

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