Macklemore, "Same Love"

I heard the new Macklemore single and thought it was B.o.B. at first

What's the deal with B.o.B. anyway? All I know about him is that he raps on "Airplanes," and I like that tune.

― jaymc, Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:03 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's a clown

he might be the most recent chart-topper that i've completely forgotten about

so this is a p standard shitty article about racism with one interesting/unintentionally hilarious + sad fact:

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2013/04/19/racial-mockery-hopkins-high-sparks-outrage-black-student-handcuffed

The incident began on Feb. 13; when eight to 10 white members of the school's ski team came to school dressed in motley ensembles of do-rags, fur coats, white tank top undershirts, sagging pants and gold chains. One even had a fake marijuana joint tucked behind his ear. Somehow word spread that the students were celebrating a "Ghetto Spirit Day." Those who came to school in costume dispute this assertion, and claimed to school administrators that they were dressing up to mimic popular white rapper, Macklemore, who sings "Thrift Shop."

I dunno, the whole repeatedly being sanctimonious towards black people in his lyrics thing gives me a special hate-on towards him

wait, this guy has MORE songs with casual racism? ugh.

I - I - I'm hunting, looking for a come-up

One man's trash, that's another man's come-up

Is "come-up" a real phrase or is he trying to make it happen?

tis a rare thing when someone can establish themselves as less aware of entry level slang than macklemore, let's all politely look away in embarrassment

the weather sure did turn cold today

although granted it's unacceptable that macklemoose puts it in the song twice, neither time really in the way anyone else would use it xp

Nah you're forcing it, there are enough reasons to clown Macklemore without picking that shit out.

tis a rare thing when someone can establish themselves as less aware of entry level slang than macklemore, let's all politely look away in embarrassment

― some dude, Monday, April 22, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tis a rare thing when someone can establish themselves as less aware of entry level slang than macklemore, let's all politely look away in embarrassment

― some dude, Monday, April 22, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well how should it be used? I've never heard it before, but it sounded really awkward.

second quote should be some dude's second post, obviously.

I like it better this way, it's like a superior version of Amanda Palmer's Dzhokhar Tsarnaev poem

you don't know how to use the phrase "come up"

In the usage "to come up", yeah. But I've never heard "a come-up", which is what Macklemoo is doing here.

when used as a noun it's usually "on the come-up" (or "creepin on ah come up" in bone thugs terms)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1lh1a6dTO1qei7y4o1_500.jpg

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.

i hope this will explain it once and for all from the website urbandictionary.com

1. come up
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A 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

lmao

hahaha

there are enough reasons to clown Macklemore without picking that shit out

still funny tho

hey i'm laughing at urbandictionary now

that's such a shitty line tho

every macklemore line just has this "look ma i'm rapping!!!" subtext

"that's great, honey"

lol oym

otm too

ha yeah

back at #1 with "Can't Hold Us" :/

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.

i've switched the station many times due to this song

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)

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmd7rV6ZUjg

Posted mainly for advances in sunglasses fashion.

Anyone else get Bring Em Out vibes from Thrift Shop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuyxX5P5Xug

:(

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?

Yeah Bring Em Out is all time, listened to Urban Legend yesterday. As sad as it is, am I wrong?

You are wrong.

K thx

awesome:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/al-madrigal-on-why-he-abhors-macklemore-ryan-lewi,98825/

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.

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".

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.

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.

Dad, what does he mean "that's what happens when bodies start slappin' from doin' the wild thing"?

Except that Macklemore is worse than Tone Loc for any possible reason you could come up with.

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