Macklemore, "Same Love"

Tracer: I have a really long half-written post that I'll try to finish later tonight. That's probably why I haven't explained myself well before is because my thoughts on this matter are so lengthy.

yes!

kick in the door waivin' the fourfour

does living in Washington make the Macklemore phenomenon more unbearable, or does it make u slightly more sympathetic to him/his fans than you would be otherwise? or both?

that's a general question to anyone who lives in the pacific nw really - I'm just curious about what it's like living there and experiencing this whole thing, I imagine it's p different from atlanta

both probably? I'll have more to say about this later the weird thing about Macklemore's place in the current landscape here is that the Seattle rap scene is really healthy and diverse right now but Mack is kind of a relic of a previous era. A lot of the young rappers in Seattle are quite explicit about not fucking with Macklemore but most of the people who came up in the early/mid-2000s are his peers and have his back 100%.

haha, they're the dudes he used to open for, basically

kick in the door waivin' the fourfour

― some dude, Tuesday, August 20, 2013 6:29 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not gonna let this post go unacknowledged

XD

haven't read the gawker piece but i gave up on juzwiak a while ago

The only valuable thing he's done in the past couple years is the glossary of Mariah-isms.

i still ride for for Def Juz

i have no problem with him but since getting w/ Gawker he writes about a lot less stuff that interests me and seems to write a lot more that actively pisses off other people for various reasons

He has better taste in dance music than anyone else. I don't really care what he thinks about Macklemore. I don't really care what anyone thinks about Macklemore.

no wait just hear me out

He has better taste in dance music than anyone else.

*recoils sharply*

Yeah, I still remember that argument too.

i still like rjuz but he def seems to have gotten a lil more bitter at how ppl lash out at him. which, i dunno, i see as kind of understandable

I've been a fan of his writing in the past--his Pazz & Jop essay on pop's pandering to gay audiences in the It Gets Better era is essential--but he seems to write a lot about things like reality television that no amount of good writing could possibly force me to care about.

For a second I was all "I cannot imagine Macklemore's Pazz and Jop essay being all THAT essential."

ctrl + f "mackleless" -- not found?!

― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, August 14, 2013 12:01 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

lol.

rj is consistently really just missing basic facts when it comes to race/history/etc. i pointed this out before but in his django piece he referred to a 'dictator of barbados' in the 20th century, which is among other things not true. i don't want to dredge up old shit but this pattern has been going on forever. i understand why people can enjoy his writing at times or whatever, but he just needs to stay the hell away from topics that he's not going to put in the time to engage with properly.

That clearly doesn't apply to his columns about his sex life.

dude wants to land on the right side, but somehow doesn't put in the work to understand exactly what that side is. there's something knee-jerk about it.

tumblr outrage point has finally reached the tipping point on ILX

tumblr outrage porn has finally reached the tipping point on ILX

tumblr outrage point has finally reached the tipping porn on ILX

porn has finally reached ILX

privilege tipping outrage porn

ILX

*farts*

your back!

http://static4.depositphotos.com/1000746/307/i/450/dep_3071716-Water-flowing-on-woman-face.jpg

That's one wet fart.

does living in Washington make the Macklemore phenomenon more unbearable, or does it make u slightly more sympathetic to him/his fans than you would be otherwise?

― Coming Out Of Elton John's Mouth (crüt)

the latter, oddly.
i end up thinking about place more than race, draw my mixalot parallels in my mind

more like mackleless

http://colorlines.com/archival_images/le1f03.jpg

i'm all for le1f going after this dude but thought it was weird he accused him of ripping off his song, i guess referring to the horn samples in wut and thrift shop?

http://colorlines.com/archival_mages/le1f06.jpg

youtube comments

kinda weird le1f is just getting around to this now, but i support it

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.

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

http://24.media.tumblr.com/a6b3d7c369fdbbaa8a72f2e007972703/tumblr_ms7iawjESv1sgt1uko1_1280.png

(btw sorry, Rev's Big Post of Macklemore Ether is still forthcoming)

naaw xp

FUCK YOU LAGOON, MACKLEMORE IS THE NEW MLK PUBLIC ENEMY SHOULD WRITE A SONG ABOUT ANY STATE THAT HOLDS OUT ON MACKLEMORE DAY

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

i googled and found out that that is an irl student newspaper but i still cant believe the author really meant it

http://24.media.tumblr.com/a6b3d7c369fdbbaa8a72f2e007972703/tumblr_ms7iawjESv1sgt1uko1_1280.png

― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:11 PM (7 minutes ago)

ban college kids

its just a funny joke right

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.

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.