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― Z S up HOOS down (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 22 April 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Oh ok. I never listened to Bone Thugs! I guess it has some legitimacy. It sounds really weird, especially the way he lets it out there twice in the same song.
― how's life, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
i hope this will explain it once and for all from the website urbandictionary.com
1. come up Share on twitter Share on facebook Share on more1324 up, 323 downA bargain, or a found item that is of value to the finder."One man's trash, that's another man's come up." - from Thrift Shop by Macklemore
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
lmao
― some dude, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha
― Z S up HOOS down (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
there are enough reasons to clown Macklemore without picking that shit out
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
still funny tho
― Z S up HOOS down (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
hey i'm laughing at urbandictionary now
― some dude, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
that's such a shitty line tho
― infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
every macklemore line just has this "look ma i'm rapping!!!" subtext
"that's great, honey"
― infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
lol oym
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
otm too
ha yeah
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
back at #1 with "Can't Hold Us" :/
― The Reverend, Thursday, 9 May 2013 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
I tried to listen to that "Can't Hold Us", but got as far as that "return of the mack" line before exiting the browser in protest.
― Greer, Thursday, 9 May 2013 06:43 (eleven years ago) link
i've switched the station many times due to this song
― dyl, Thursday, 9 May 2013 07:54 (eleven years ago) link
of course it is also #1 on r&b/hip-hop songs despite not registering on r&b/hip-hop airplay at all (correct me if i am wrong, sometimes i am bad at using the billboard site)
― dyl, Thursday, 9 May 2013 08:00 (eleven years ago) link
No, you're right. It's nowhere to be found on hip-hop airplay charts. Thrift Shop also only got as high as #47 there as well and even that was only after some stations probably felt compelled to play what was the #1 hip-hop song in the country at the time according to Billboard. Though that makes me wonder how their label approached getting them on the radio. Did they approach hip-hop stations who just had no interest in playing his songs, or did they avoid hip-hop radio entirely and only go for pop, alt, rhythmic and HAC radio?
― Greer, Thursday, 9 May 2013 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmd7rV6ZUjg
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 23 May 2013 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
Posted mainly for advances in sunglasses fashion.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 23 May 2013 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone else get Bring Em Out vibes from Thrift Shop?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuyxX5P5Xug
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Monday, 10 June 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
:(
You just compared one of my favorite rap songs to one of my least favorite rap songs.
Thought this was gonna be revived for: “Same Love,” same old shit?
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link
Yeah Bring Em Out is all time, listened to Urban Legend yesterday. As sad as it is, am I wrong?
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 03:11 (ten years ago) link
You are wrong.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 03:15 (ten years ago) link
K thx
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 03:15 (ten years ago) link
awesome:http://www.avclub.com/articles/al-madrigal-on-why-he-abhors-macklemore-ryan-lewi,98825/
― some dude, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 03:22 (ten years ago) link
The argument about his kids seems a little weak, of all the pop stars out there I don't think Macklemore is the one that's going to corrupt his heretofore innocent children.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 05:32 (ten years ago) link
I have had pretty much the same experience as this dude, particularly with the roomful of neighborhood kids all rapping along and saying "Pissssssssssss".
Also, my kid had apparently been listening to Poker Face on the radio the other day because he asked me to explain "bluffin' with my muffin".
― how's life, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 09:39 (ten years ago) link
yeah i mean rappers introducing kids to dirty words is not really a unique concept, i don't think he's really saying it is, just that that song was his experience and he hates the song for it. w/ "thrift shop" i suppose it's arguably more insidious because it's this fun song about funny clothes and it's slightly more relateable to little kids that the avg rap hit.
― some dude, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 11:24 (ten years ago) link
I mean, that's exactly it. This is just the 2010s version of 80s kids asking their parents what an aphrodesiac is after hearing Funky Cold Medina.
― how's life, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 12:13 (ten years ago) link
Dad, what does he mean "that's what happens when bodies start slappin' from doin' the wild thing"?
― how's life, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 12:15 (ten years ago) link
Except that Macklemore is worse than Tone Loc for any possible reason you could come up with.
― how's life, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 12:20 (ten years ago) link
along these lines, it cracked me up that "Afternoon Delight" was an AM easy listening staple when I was younger once I was old enough to get the lyrics
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
all the articles critical of "same love" i have seen are completely filled w/ comments by ppl defending it, claiming the author of the piece is stupid or ignorant or a bad writer (the latter always cracks me up b/c the comments are not very well written themselves), etc. :\\\\\
― dyl, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
Indeed. Karen Tongson, who wrote the (quite excellent) article the Rev linked a few posts back, put up a response on FB about that kind of reaction.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
to me i think its a weird/cool sign of progress that the al madrigal thing is a mexican american dad kvetching over raunchy lyrics by a white rapper
― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:08 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
like all children, i assume, i thought afternoon delight was about spaceships
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
I wondered why my mom would giggle when I sang along and refused to harmonize with me; later on, I looked back on that decision and realized exactly how wise my mother actually was.
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Thanks, Daniel Stern.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link
I agree w/Karen Tongston & I know what she's saying but I gave a big involuntary privileged eyeroll to "CHANGE HETEROSEXUALITY"
― ttyih boi (crüt), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link
I think I've posted this elsewhere, but when he was 4 or 5, one of my kid's favorite songs was 3 by Britney Spears. I mean, it really has a certain appeal for people with rudimentary math skills.
― how's life, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Crut, I wanted a further elaboration on that as well.
― how's life, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
"...dare to imagine beyond a certain kind of normativity, and challenge the power that adheres to these very categories"
Is this part, which directly follows "Change Heterosexuality", not a (brief) explanation of what she means?
― My god. Pure ideology. (ey), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
idk. it's probably best that I don't explain why that rubbed me the wrong way because it's not really relevant that it rubbed me the wrong way.
― ttyih boi (crüt), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
That isn't really an explanation, imo.
― how's life, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
But also know, the phrase itself didn't rub me the wrong way. Just that she didn't explain it.
― how's life, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
Same Love is #7 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Chart and rising. I'm preparing myself now for all the think pieces about ~What It Means For Hip-Hop~.
― Greer, Saturday, 22 June 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
you're literally a year too late for that
― some dude, Saturday, 22 June 2013 02:55 (ten years ago) link
Before the chatter was about whether hip-hop was finally ready or whatever, and mostly about patting Macklemore on the back for his daring, but at the time the song wasn't actually making any waves in hip-hop or having any notable impact on hip-hop charts or radio. Whereas now (according to the way Billboard does the charts at least), the song is actually doing something, which could inspire another wave of navel gazing. Now that I check, it's not just rising on those chart's either. It gained a new peak on the Hot 100 too, is rising on itunes and is building on radio. It could become a legitimate hit, which is what it hadn't really been up to this point, despite being a much discussed song.
― Greer, Saturday, 22 June 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link
The 'daring' there should be in massive sarcasm quotes.