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[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 61 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i really thought for a second that this was one of those times where i was too autistic to get that it was a joke, but no, apparently macklemore figured it out. palestine-strong

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 71 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

When he came out to call for a ceasefire last year, the next episode of Chapo had Felix yell something along the lines of "THESE [liberal media] FUCKS ARE DUMBER THAN MACKLEMORE! A guy who thought he was gay because he cleaned his bedroom!"

[–] buh@hexbear.net 68 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A guy who thought he was gay because he cleaned his bedroom!

peterson-pain

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Fellas, is it gay to do art and clean your room, and is it hereditary (from uncle to nephew)?

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I gotta be honest, I understand him. I thought I was gay in third grade because I did acting after school and the other kids called me gay for it.

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

Must have misunderstood the "gay uncle" hypothesis

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wait til he hears about washing his beanis

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wiped this week; do I have the big gay?

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What Alex Jones said: the water is turning the frogs gay

What Alex Jones meant: bidets are making French people homosexual

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

rare french w

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago

i can't listen to chapo most of the time without matt, but god i love felix bits. that's so goddamn good.

[–] ComradeKingfisher@hexbear.net 60 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Seems like he didn't just stumble into it, dude's been on the right side for a while

heartening to see Macklemore return to his roots. before he popped off decade ago, he was running in anti-capitalist radical circles in the west coast & did few fundraiser shows for us (grassroots anti-colonial, anti-capitalist migrant justice group). movements keep us grounded.

Love and respect to the west coast artists then and STILL holding it down for liberation, like Gabriel Teodros,  Abyssinian Creole, Khingz who introduced me/us to Macklemore and invited him to be part of our events and into community & movement spaces.

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia/status/1787643511451562328?t=Xg3Kdho0mP8ARXFyHPyMYQ&s=19

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think he is genuine, but if I were to tell someone a decade ago that the Thrift Shop guy will outflank the Labour/Democratic party on the left on race issues and Palestine, I don't think they would believe me.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

Thrift shop is an anti-consumerism song tho

[–] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

That’s because all people listened to on that album was thrift shop and can’t hold us. Now listen to Make the Money, Jimmy Iovine, A Wake, and Gold, and tell me he doesn’t seem like a leftist. Better yet, listen to his earlier work where he’s talking about cultural appropriation and the opioid epidemic.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of how Psy was revealed to be singing metal songs advocating for the killing and torture of American soldiers as revenge for the murders of Koreans and Iraqis before he got famous

[–] aqwxcvbnji@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Psy was revealed to be singing metal songs advocating for the killing and torture of American soldiers as revenge for the murders of Koreans and Iraqis

Hahaha, no fucking way. Can you link that?

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 48 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He's got 20 good takes in his pocket.

[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean they're pretty milquetoast takes compared to what we're packing, but apparently having "good takes" was enough to win a grammy a decade ago

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He tried to decline it because he thought Kendrick should have won. Turns out you can't decline Grammy's.

[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

...fuck that is a pretty good take

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://web.archive.org/web/20200112094642/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/drake-calls-macklemores-grammy-apology-text-wack-as-f-k-81580/

Bonus: Macklemore told Kendrick he should have won in 2014, Drake chimes in with "shut up you're fishing for attention".

Man, Drake was always a dick

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

in all fairness to drake though you should consider

i needa one dance

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 months ago

My anti-auth/voluntarist takes make people clutch pearls and those takes might as well have "yes salt, but no black pepper it makes my scalp itch" levels of spice.

[–] Cromalin@hexbear.net 45 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

props to him for just saying straight up "i'm not voting for biden he's complicit in genocide"

really makes everyone else who isn't even making a statement look like cowards when fucking macklemore does an entire song dedicated to palestine and just saying the damn thing

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I would be more surprised if you could find someone out of the 00s-10s Seattle rap scene that is pro-Israel.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

Macklemore's always been kinda left-conscious. Hard to fault him for having his heart in the right place

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

pardon me, who/what is macklemore and why is it remarkable that he has a good take on something?

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

He was a briefly popular white rapper like a decade or so ago. He was never amazing but got played a lot and people got tired of him. I don't think he was complete garbGe, bit he definitely got the white rapper treatment. Then he just disappeared from the public concipusness.

His hits were about gay people deserving better treatment and about how he shopped at the thrift store cuz that's how a lot of people out on the streets dressed and that there's notjong wrong with that.

At best, a likable socially-conscious cornball just stole the spotlight from rap's biggest feud

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So he's a white rapper whose number 1 hit from a decade ago opens with

Walk into the club like "whaddup, I got a big cock"

His second had a line that said he was "somewhere between Rocky (Balboa) and (Bill) Cosby", shortly before the allegations of SA became widespread. Not quite MF DOOM in terms of lyrics.

Both hits were really popular with hot couch guys, dance clubs and frat bros.

So people kind of assumed he was either apolitical or worse yet, a chud.

But then he came out with a pro BLM song during the George Floyd protests, and more recently he called for a ceasefire last year before Bernie and AOC did.

[–] Cromalin@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

his one big album also had a (cringey straight guy trying to be a good ally) song where he talked about how he was super pro-gay rights, so i assumed he was a lib but i never thought he was a chud

I remember doing the math like, "Yeah, I'm good at little league."
A pre-conceived idea of what it all meant
For those that like the same sex had the characteristics
The right-wing conservatives think it's a decision
And you can be cured with some treatment and religion

Man-made, rewiring of a pre-disposition
Playing God, aw nah, here we go
America the brave still fears what we don't know
"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago
I don't know

If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily
We've become so numb to what we're sayin'

Our culture founded from oppression
Yet, we don't have acceptance for 'em
Call each other removeds behind the keys of a message board
A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it
"Gay" is synonymous with the lesser

not exactly the first brick at stonewall but for a cishet dude in 2011 it's pretty good

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

I kinda remember vaguely feeling like "hmm, this could be a genuine but goofy attempt at allyship or a cash grab" probably due to the fact that the opening bars of the song were him talking about himself, who isn't gay. But I guess in retrospect it really wasn't important and he does mean well.

[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

A one hit wonder from a decade ago.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does Macklemore have a reputation for bad takes or something? I'm only aware of his anti-Bush song, anti-consumerist song, that random pro-body acceptance line/scene in that one song, and I'm not even a fan.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

He's good politically, just corny. He's never been known as a particularly good rapper, and you can't really be remembered or have any kind of legacy as a white rapper unless you have something better than just good politics to bring to the table. See: Aesop Rock. Also strong left political positions, but what elevates someone like him to being respected (even if only in the underground) is his caliber as a writer and his 500 IQ flow. Macklemore never had anything like that to build a reputation on, commercial success on a couple of tracks aside.

[–] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

He’s had reasonably based music for a long time.

[–] nasezero@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago