Macklemore, "Same Love"

Everlast was part of rhyme syndicate way before house of pain so he's hardly frat rap

a couple years ago, i was in a bar and heard this guy explaining really loud and insistent how REAL RAP was better than all that fake shit on TV about bling and guns and cars and shit, that REAL RAP was positive and enlightening, and all the gangsters and dealers and bitches and shit were a con, a commercial ploy, the debasement of a pure form in the hands of perpetrating phonies. there were only about four people in the place, huge place, and i was so fucking to tempted to go over there and beg him to shut up, maybe just hold it down, was so painful to hear. i of course refrained.

just watched "thrift shop". ha! how wrong was i? he's a star.

wait, macklemore was the guy in the bar? not sure I'm reading this right...

and then he gifted me a teal windbreaker, special moment, deep communication

yeah

turns out he's pretty bad, too

oh yeah I forget you are a local

great story tho

was a local, now i'm a million miles away

wait, macklemore was the guy in the bar? not sure I'm reading this right...

― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:33 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha wow totally didt catch that lol

just ctrl-F'd this thread and the word "precious" has not yet been used to describe macklemore

i can deal with "hateful" but can we please cut it out with smugly self-satisfied rappers?

for those who havent seen the snl performance it is for sure appointment tv, even more so than his records it really came through what an amateur he is, like his voice is so wack it didnt cut through the beat or ride the beat or anything it was just obliterated by the beat, but it didnt seem to be a mixing issue, you could hear him but not hear him, its the sort of basic ass thing you could tell he just hasnt noticed or thought about or worked on, and then his whole stage presence was simultaneously so theatrical and so aimless, it didnt have any connection to the music or anything particularly, he was just wearing silly clothes and jumping around arrhythmically , you could tell his whole plan was just to put a ton of energy out there and hopefully the crowd gets hyped up, it was all really crazily entry level, like i already thought he sucked bigtime and i was shocked at how bad it was

sound mix on snl is always ass tho

On the radio here the DJs are particular about pronouncing his name "Mack - luh - more" which is just so much more precious than "Mackel - more", is it really the former?

i was shocked at how bad it was

― lag∞n, Monday, April 15, 2013 11:01 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Macklemore

Everlast was part of rhyme syndicate way before house of pain so he's hardly frat rap

You may have glossed over the part of my post where I objected to the cultural assumptions behind the term "frat rap"

Pomp - luh - moose
Mack - luh - more

My kid is so into Thrift Shop right now. He keeps trying to show me youtubes of like Minecraft Thrift Shop and the like. Yesterday, he was like "you know the part that he sings over and over again? I memorized that!" He pronounces it Mackel-uh-more.

so macklamoose is barney?

sound mix on snl is always ass tho

― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 1:21 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it was bad but the underlying wackness shown through

wait this clown was on SNL?

Of course he was.

http://idolator.com/7444489/macklemore-ryan-lewis-saturday-night-live-watch

So here are my thoughts on Macklemore. Before I ever heard his music, I got the impression that ILM thought he was wack, so when "Thrift Shop" blew up, I was like, ugh, this is *that* clown. But then people I love and care about -- but people who aren't at all invested in hip-hop or what Macklemore "represents" -- started talking about how great "Thrift Shop" was. And I had to defend why I didn't like him, but I realized I couldn't. I mean, something something anti-bling something something appropriation. Whatever. The song is pretty good. Not great, but pretty good. Catchy as fuck. The end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehJFc1W0VKE

lol jaymc 'your objections are conceptual, its a good song, whatever', but check out this counterpoint bro: its a terrible song

i'm not impressed by this guy in the slightest, but I find the whole "omg a white guy taking a critical stance on hip-hop culture while appropriating it at the same time, the NERVE" thing ironic when it comes from folks who dig Beck & the Beasties.

omg fuck that google movie in the face

the answer is to not dig beck (ugh) or the beasties either

rip hip-hop wytes

omg fuck that google movie in the face

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:38 AM Bookmark

that preview almost gave me a conniption when i saw it in the theater

jaymc still providing ilm with the valuable pov of people who don't really care about music i see

the sample and melody to the hook are decent. shame about everything else.

catchiness is not an indicator of quality

lol @ comparing Macklemore to Beck or (especially) the Beasties btw

o man i just rescreened the snl performance, just unbelievable, especially the non thrift store song

lol he did the Ellen show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4HbtTKsHL0

It's basically just a Lonely Island song, no?

totally Ellen music

lol a longboard of course

his dancing

and pancho

he's really awkward to watch

it's painful really

lol jaymc 'your objections are conceptual, its a good song, whatever', but check out this counterpoint bro: its a terrible song

That's a good counterpoint. I think I disagree, though.

jaymc still providing ilm with the valuable pov of people who don't really care about music i see

I don't know what this means.

I can't believe I haven't gone in on Ryan Lewis itt but FUCK RYAN LEWIS. His "fun" songs have no groove whatsoever and his "serious songs" are three times as bossy as a John Williams score. That guy is the fucking worst producer. This thread needs more Ryan Lewis slander.

I'm not saying that anyone criticizing Macklemore is misguided or anything. You probably all have perfectly good reasons to dislike him -- I didn't.

his sound is v thin, macklemores voice is v thin, they have no idea what theyre doin xp

catchiness is not an indicator of quality

― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 1:42 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

hmm

also that sax loop is annoying af

catchiness is not an indicator of quality

Not always, but it often is for me. YMMV.

getting the feeling that its vital to a lot of ur identities that u hate macklemore & its just a convenience that his horrible music justifies it