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!"

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.

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

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

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

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.

A one hit wonder from a decade 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.