Macklemore, "Same Love"

that album is one of those things i've hated so long that i don't think i could stop now

speaking of jungle brothers it never really registered to me how much Speech bit Baby Bam from Jungle Brothers whole flow

really?!

at the time it just seemed really unfair that they were huge and the Jungle Bros were stuff being these obscure also-rans

funny thread: arrested development: classic or dud?

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/05/macklemore_s_offensive_costume_is_part_of_pop_s_long_history_of_appropriation.html

Carl Wilson weighs in (with asides re Katy Perry and others, plus tv shows)

I like when he briefly notes that warning against immediate indignation might be easy for him considering he's in none of the appropriated cultures

Not that it keeps him from writing a thinkpiece about whether or not people are too shortsightedly judgey these days

"But in its day, it was all received as respectable, good fun—to the degree that the Jewfaced or yellowfaced performers were often Jews or Asians themselves, joining in with degrees of enthusiasm or reluctance that are often hard to decipher at this remove."

...

this mongrel land we call planet Earth

Sounds like a line from the end of a Star Trek episode.

Smdh at "we all have different noses" line

clever by half

kinda surprised it took this long for someone from rhymesayers to start cutting on macklemore for being a knockoff

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

ha, I kicked it with Ali once, real cool dude

yeah he's genuinely positive, he does a lot of stuff to get kids school supplies in north mpls and generally can be counted on to be 100% pro labor, anti-police brutality, shows up for damn near any benefit show

wow!

who does mackelmore site as his influences

gay people everywhere

his uncle, drawing, keeping his room tidy

3rd grade

the thrifting movement

ryan lewis

Bro Ali video! <3

Jackie Mason

hahaha man i've watched this like 5 times macklemore sucks so bad glad to hear someone going at him, warms my heart

it's hilarious when sway realized who he's talking about around 50 secs in

the monkey on yr favorite rappers back it matches yours

cn someone rap genius this

it's like he took Ice Cube's "with your manager, fella" line and made a whole rap out of it

crosspost in rap easter eggs thread ^

I was enjoying that and then I hit the "what's a Monkee to a Beatle" line and this is the best thing I've heard all day

hahahaha so now I have to help choreograph a dance to "same love" for work awesome

lol i watched it twice before realizing 80% of it rhymes with "macklemore"

Yeah that's the genius part

yeah, internal rhymes too, not just end rhymes

it's hilarious when sway realized who he's talking about around 50 secs in

yeah

you can see the lightbulb go off

hes all yeaah no stop compose yrself

my goodness, Ali, my goodness

and yeah the Monkee/Beatle line cinched it

just wow

this isn't Brother Ali but I still found it very entertaining:

http://youtu.be/XE2vKIoVhg0

ffwd to 3:00 if you lose interest and/or wanna hear the finished product

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ5nuy7GYcc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvqCcQ12I-s

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

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

feel like he could Mackle less, honestly

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.

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?

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.

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

his rapping is very backpacker but his music is very dance pop, hit some terrible terrible sweet spot