Mackelmore has been making several songs about Palestine and calling attention to the genocide for the last year and a half (maybe more). I remember him from Thrift Shop and Same Love, and then I kinda just forgot about him, then he dropped Hind's Hall 1 + 2, and Fucked Up. The guy is using his platform and influence for good when loads of other mainstream rappers stay silent.
He's the current generations Rage Against the Machine and someone deserving of such a title!
This is exagerated
…he is? I’m genuinely asking because that’s a shocking statement and I’m actually curious. Rage was trying to literally start a revolution. Making a few political songs about a genocide is absolutely great, but I feel it does not a Rage make.
Great Ally for sure....
Already been discussed here pretty extensively, but it is a very old photo and he apologized for it. Even the ADL (an insane zionist organization) forgave him. Stop pretending like you actually care about antisemitism.
https://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/20/showbiz/macklemore-costume-apology/index.html
Rapper Macklemore, who won a Grammy for a song praised for its cultural sensitivity, insists that he wasn’t stereotyping Jews with a costume he wore to a Seattle event Friday.
The hat, big fake nose, black beard and wig were “a random costume” thrown together “so that I could walk around unnoticed and surprise the crowd with a short performance,” the rapper said in an “apology to anybody that I may have offended” released Monday night.
While the Anti-Defamation League said the group would “take him at his word that he did not have any ill intent.”
“Family, friends and fans alike who know me well, know that I’m absolutely not the person described in certain headlines today,” Macklemore said in Monday’s statement. “There is no worse feeling than being misunderstood, especially when people are hurt or offended.”
Macklemore said the misunderstanding happened because he wanted to surprise fans at a show at Seattle’s EMP Museum on Friday night.
“Earlier in the day I thought it would be fun to dress up in a disguise and go incognito to the event, so that I could walk around unnoticed and surprise the crowd with a short performance,” he said.
“I picked up a bunch of fake mustaches and beards and grabbed a leftover wig from our recent trip to Japan,” he said. The only fake nose he could find at a costume store at the last minute was “a big witch nose.”
His only aim was to disguise himself, not to be “any ‘type’ of person,” he said. “I wasn’t attempting to mimic any culture, nor resemble one. A ‘Jewish stereotype’ never crossed my mind.”
Some people who saw him suggested that he looked like former Beatle Ringo Starr or President Abraham Lincoln, he said.
He said it was “surprising and disappointing” that photos of his “disguise were sensationalized leading to the immediate assertion that my costume was anti-Semitic.”
He did, however, “acknowledge how the costume could, within a context of stereotyping, be ascribed to a Jewish caricature.”
“We take him at his word that he did not have any ill intent and unreservedly accept his apology,” ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said. “We know that Macklemore is someone who has used his platform in the past to stand up and speak out against intolerance and bigotry, particularly homophobia. With that in mind we believe that this matter is little more than ‘a tempest in a teapot’ over an unfortunate choice of wardrobe.”
Holy moly.
How do I find the mentioned video? I feel like that’s important to share with this sort of thing and the hashtag soup..?
Also the only thing I care about..
I know the hashtags are important for microblog whatever nonsense (I’ve never used Twitter or anything like it), but content should still be the focus. Cmon.
I don't know if it is available anywhere else, but this is where it was posted by the team:
Well that’s disappointing.
I can’t get it to load.. I don’t use telegram (it’s… not at all a thing here.. other than a great way to know a scam when you see it) and it claims the media is “too big” to share otherwise.. which is so fucking dumb..
I tried running the whole thing through archive.ph, because I don’t have a telegram account and it demands I log in, and the same happened as a result of the archiving process, but with a lot more time involved.
Not your fault ofc
Thanks for providing a link anyway. :) hopefully someone else can confirm this is as rad as it sounds :p and maybe copy the video to something others can see :)
Oh, wonderful thank you! I’m thrilled to see it!
You should for sure update the post with that link!
@ApathyTree I can't add it to the post, because of the limitations of the pod
Oh yeah that’s fair, I don’t know how that side of things work, my bad :)
Carry on friend! And thanks for going out of your way with the link!
Macklemore? Huh. Can't say id expected to see him in the news this week. Good for him!
Haha maybe he's angling for a controversial Nobel Peace Prize win.
(For context he won a Grammy about 10 years ago when the vast vast majority of people thought it should have gone to Kendrick Lamar)
To give credit to Macklemore he thought Kendrick should have gotten it as well. I hated his pro gay song when it came out because I was an edgy teen and I thought it was a kinda shallow interpretation, but as far as I can see he’s a pretty cool guy. Thrift shop was great though and I really liked that song.
He's been quite vocal, so I wouldn't call it surprising.
Here's some context: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/macklemore-fucked-up-song-1235266262/
Thanks for the info I didn't hear that!
@Contentedness and your point is?
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