https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFTeqhskwFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ5nuy7GYcc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvqCcQ12I-s
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 10:11 (nine years ago) link
also there's a song on the new TheeSatisfaction called "Blandland" where Ish goes in a nameless rapper who's "bouncin' round looking like Hitler Youth" lol
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 10:29 (nine years ago) link
that last one in particular is great, that fatal dude is amazing flow
that line about play action bronson but not ghostface was like damn
good to see rappers explicitly addressing what's going on
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
feel like he could Mackle less, honestly
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, "Same Problems" is definitely my favorite of the three. A couple things that may not be apparent to non-Seattlites: a) they call out not just Mack but like a dozen other local non-"street" rappers, they kinda lobbed a huge grenade; b) the location is Yesler Terrace, a housing project right outside of downtown Seattle on very valuable property, currently being torn down to make way for a mixed income development that the city hopes will include a corporate headquarters.
I wish I could link the amazing facebook thread where a bunch of Seattle hiphop figures are discussing these songs at length, but it's not public.
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
b) the location is Yesler Terrace, a housing project right outside of downtown Seattle on very valuable property, currently being torn down to make way for a mixed income development that the city hopes will include a corporate headquarters.
hmmm wow
lemme guess "mixed income" middle AND upper middle class?
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 February 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
Yesler Terrace is a post-war success story of creating low income, integrated housing with low crime rates but in order to justify it's destruction and sale to fucking Paul Allen's development company, the narrative shifted so it began to be described as "decrepit" and "dangerous". Now it's being described as having the potential to be the next "South Lake Union", aka Amazon Headquarters. While this is going on, an entire block that marked the edge of the historically black neighborhood of Seattle is being sold to developers while a 6 story "mixed use" development goes up across the street.
I don't think Macklemore is a total piece of shit, but to remain silent while the city is doing everything in it's power to marginalize the black community speaks volumes about his priorities.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Thursday, 26 February 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
Macklemore is just such a weird phenomenon, like he's such an average to kinda OK at best backpacker, like it's amazing he got big when probably the highest level he should have gotten to was opening for Atmosphere
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
his rapping is very backpacker but his music is very dance pop, hit some terrible terrible sweet spot
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
yeah atmosphere never had a hook or song as catchy as thrift shop
― Steph def def (Spottie), Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
like when we first started talking abt him on the bro rap thread he was just starting the transformation and was only comfortable doing dance ironically
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhf5cuXiLTA
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
white rappers who are eventually remembered for one big hit usually had more than one as far as charts go - "wildside," "play that funky music," "girl i've been hurt," "black widow" (i can dream). Eminem obv achieved the full Elvis but I wouldn't be sure Macklewill.
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
yeah kinda think his superstar status is not sustainable but his core demo of college wites is very large and will support him in perpetuity
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
would assume he's going to shore up that base next go-round but i dunno, the guy did do an E! reality special, might try to go pitbull
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
feel like his mastery of the craft is not high enough to pittbull
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
but his core demo of college wites
and their moms
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
suspect the moms will move on
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
feel like his mastery of the craft is not high enough to pitbull
oh i agree, imo his best bet would be to carve out an audience of people who would love to support eminem in his weak culture jokes and maudlin ballads but find him a touch too obscene and shouty.
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
ryan lewis is obvs the mastermind of the operation like all the hits had some non macklemore person in the chorus
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
that E! reality special just makes me wonder if he can really settle for an "Atmosphere with more name recognition and a hit" audience now that he's tasted the american music awards
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
This crystallizes a lot for me; Macklemore is the hip-hop version of Dave Matthews Band.
― DJP, Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
visualize in fifteen years when macklemores fanbase is aging lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
if he's lucky! could also be the spin doctors
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
it all depends on the follow-up
feel like he has planted the proper grassroots for sustained narrow success
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
yeah, he's still self-released right? that's smart
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link
yeah he just has a distro deal
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
hoping at least he'll slip off the top 40 and then be the kind of guy i only hear about when people are looking at successful touring acts and going "jesus who the fuck are all these people going to see macklemore"
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
sounds abt right
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
the thinking man's violent j
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
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Cleopatra's Favorite Cat
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
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This is not his core fwiw.
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Thursday, 26 February 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link
I guess the Eastside teens who were thronging around Neumos for his free Heist release show are probably in college now, but at least around here his core audience is young af.
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Thursday, 26 February 2015 22:49 (nine years ago) link
now if that ain't the saddest "i was there" ever
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 22:59 (nine years ago) link
http://img.youtube.com/vi/9QtlNq-K9_s/0.jpg
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:06 (nine years ago) link
ha, I just saw the pictures. I assure you I was not there.
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
i think i'll have my own kids in college before "mackleless" jokes stop being funny to me
― goole, Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
― lag∞n
you are kind to Pitbull
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link
how dare you
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
pitbull deserves our kindness he has given us so much
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link
frankly, considering the weak reception given to "fireball," i feel we are currently in pitbull's debt
dudes I live in his hometown -- he needs to run for mayor of Sweetwater and stay put.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link
I did see a Pitbull roll at my local sushi joint last Friday: tuna, eel, and culo.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
oh i see you want him all to yourself, well too bad, he's mr worldwide now
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
that's not culo means
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:29 (nine years ago) link
culo is for the people
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:32 (nine years ago) link
"Culo (Pa' Mi Gente)"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:34 (nine years ago) link
http://www.taquitos.net/im/sn/RedMill-CoolOs.jpg
― example (crüt), Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:35 (nine years ago) link
why is Macklemore wearing Harry Dean Stanton's outfit from 1989?
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:38 (nine years ago) link
god those raz simone tracks are awesome, esp "same problems", esp fatal yeah. and it's kind of a trip to see yesler terrace in a video. had no idea they were tearing it down :(
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link