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[-] bazingabrain@hexbear.net 99 points 1 month ago

Dude what. I never knew Macklemore was this cool?!

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 114 points 1 month ago
[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 71 points 1 month ago

i don't like his haircut still, but i respect the hell out of him.

[-] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 51 points 1 month ago

For real.

Conditional support until he finds a barber that doesn't fuck his shit up.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 84 points 1 month ago

Himbo with a conscience > the entire liberal media apparatus

[-] bazingabrain@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago

The bar is truly in hell when “conscience” is enough to clear it.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago

If you deny, downplay and obfuscate Israeli atrocities like the liberal media has been doing, not only do you lack a conscience, you drain it from good natured people around you like Israel drains the nutsacks of KIA'd soldiers.

[-] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 55 points 1 month ago

I think he's been pretty pro Palestinian for years. And he made a song, Hind's Hall that went pretty viral on tiktok.

To be clear, he isn't the only artist to make music about this.

[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The linked tweet includes a video of Macklemore live performing Hind's Hall, with some updated lyrics (for example, speaking to Kamala). The replies are people saying "I agree with all of the lyrics"

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 month ago

It's a new song with several Palestinian artists. I linked the music video in music

[-] frauddogg@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago

I'm actually at a point of having to question if Macklemore's going to end up being this generation's Eminem, like-- the one mainstream white dude who actually gets a plate at the rap game's cookout. (Yeah, I know there's like two or three other actually-based white rappers; but do you rly think your average zoomer or gen-alpha knows who RA the Rugged Man, El-P, or Aesop Rock are?)

[-] Lussy@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

Mate, No, not even close. Nevermind that hip hop already seems to be in a death spiral, Macklemore is not and will not ever be close to Eminem in popularity. He’s probably not even the most visible contemporary white rapper

[-] frauddogg@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nevermind that hip hop already seems to be in a death spiral,

I'm not so sure 'death spiral' is the right term. I'm not gonna bullshit it's grim, but there's a good handful of emcees who seem more interested in resetting the board than just smackin it off the table. (Mostly aligned with TDE and pgLang.)

Macklemore is not and will not ever be close to Eminem in popularity.

Right now. But Em is old, and never mind the fact that Death of Slim Shady actually seems to be Em back on his pins-- he can't keep it up forever. There'll be another, and I don't think El-P or Aes are that visible either. God knows RA ain't.

[-] Lussy@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

But Em is old, and never mind the fact that Death of Slim Shady actually seems to be Em back on his pins

Eminem is one of the best selling artists of all time let alone the most popular Hip hop artist of all time. I’m saying it’ll be extremely hard for Macklemore to reach his status, now or ever.

Right now, Post Malone, for example, is easily more visible than Macklemore

[-] frauddogg@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

And Post Malone vulture-hopped his ass back to country too, didn't he? Ultimately you're not wrong about the difficulty to reach; I'm just spitballing the future and I refuse to speak Post Malone into inheriting that seat lmfao.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not gonna bullshit it's grim

As someone who knows nothing it seems pretty good from the outside? Like hiphop is still a massive genre. How is it looking grim?

[-] frauddogg@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a 'massive' genre, but all of our most talented and most likely to be 'next up' are all caught in slave deals and/or being shelved by their labels in favor of easily-controlled, easily-watered down puppets. That's not even getting into predatory artists who establish their own artist labels specifically to take people who WOULD be up-and-coming and cut them off at the knees by making them a writer or producer instead of a main attraction themselves. (See also: Aubrey Graham's "OVO Sound", also known as the "OVO Sweatshop" from how many talented Toronto artists got made into ghostwriters and had they sounds stolen and amalgamated into Aubrey's own after signing.)

There are no Tupacs, Biggies, or Nases anymore, and it's that way by design. The people currently running the show are all either settlers or misleaders, leading to yet another genre that we pioneered and advanced getting Elvis'd by the white man and all of the sell-outs bearing their water.

Like, Aubrey Graham was on top of the game for years; if that's not an absolute indictment of what today's hip-hop was prior to the Kendrick beef, I don't know what is.

[-] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Fd signifier has a good video essay about this in the context of the Drake/Kendrick beef. frauddogg hit all the points of the video if you don't have over an hour to spare

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

I'd like to see the video too, it sounds interesting and I like the guy

[-] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

For some reason I thought this was 90 minutes but it's actually 3 and a half hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEsf7QmIJTQ

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 81 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i love the zionist smears where they're like "if you take all this guy's criticisms of israel and change them to be criticisms of jews, he starts to sound really antisemitic! plus he hates israel, so what does that tell you about antizionism?"

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 78 points 1 month ago

I'm still positively surprised by the Thrift Shop guy supporting Palestine. Though, Thrift Shop was ahead of its time too, with its promotion of the circular economy.

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 67 points 1 month ago

It is the year 2030 and you're at your local thrift store — the only place you can legally buy clothes after Gen. Sec. Macklemore's harsh crackdowns on fast fashion after the Revolution.

After a while of looking, you eye a stylish t-shirt.

As you're taking it off the hanger to try it on, you notice it has a tag on it:

RECYCLED FROM A SETTLER FLAG DEPOSITED IN FREE PALESTINE

Life is good.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

You then see the price tag and ask yourself why an H&M shirt costs more in a thrift shop than it does at H&M. You curse Macklemore as they drag you away

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

What's H&M? Was that one of those pre-revolutionary clothes stores?

[-] miz@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

a clothing line by Hezbollah & Macklemore

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago
[-] REgon@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This comment seems to imply you're describing a post-revolutionary society. Why would it still be capitalist? disgost

[-] Lussy@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

Man might have singlehandedly ruined thrift shops

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

Some rich hipsters got a hold of a short bus and tore out the seats and crap to make a 'mobile thrift store' where they find some place in town to set up shop for the day and charge triple for what they went to a normal thrift store and bought. So now you can't find anything good at a thrift store cause these fucks are re-selling it all

[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

To be fair the Internet ruined thrift shops. It's a lot harder to find a steal when ppl can just Google what something is and what it's worth.

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 58 points 1 month ago

Typical of a Zionist to ignore the Palestinian voices that make up the majority of the song

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago
[-] REgon@hexbear.net 53 points 1 month ago

"wait Macklemore is based?" astronaut-2 astronaut-1

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

When I read the title I thought you were comically mocking them, when in fact you were just repeating them verbatim, word for word.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Many such cases with zionists

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

accused "motherfuckers" (Jews) of "murdering little kids"

>mrw
[NSFW: lyrics, the song uses a picture of the artist wearing a bra for whatever reason]

[-] ExtimateCookie@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago
[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Hind's Hall 2

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