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When Macklemore does it, it is simple, surface-level, clean cut in today’s society. When Kendrick shares the tales of his struggle, it is poetic, dense, emotional and individual. I keep comparing his words to that of best-rapper-alive Kendrick Lamar (and not because of his fake-based Grammy apology to the Compton rapper). Read on to learn about Macklemore’s early life and his love for his city.

He attended school in Seattle and later enrolled at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. So why have so many of his attempts to make the world a better place failed? Macklemore, aka Ben Haggerty, was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in the Capitol Hill neighbourhood with his parents and older brother. Here comes a white male from the Pacific Northwest, taking over the airwaves in an accelerated fashion with pop-rap hits like “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us.” He is a skilled rapper with a keen ear for melody and varied production, who has faced and shared the greater troubles of his past. He’s got good intentions, but has internal difficulty trying to appeal to, well, everybody.īear in mind that at this point, the listener has already heard more than 45 minutes of Macklemore going back and forth between struggling to come to terms with his own complicated position in the rap world and throwing some goofy rhymes in there for good measure (and if this is “II” you know there was a “I”-he’s been feeling this way for a while now).Īnd he is in a complicated position. That couplet is just one of several the famous rapper jams in the almost nine-minute closer, “White Privilege II.” He and producing partner Ryan Lewis hodge-podge different vignettes here-Macklemore feeling insecure marching with #BlackLivesMatters protesters, Macklemore feeling insecure listening to mothers praise his “positive” rap, Macklemore feeling insecure about his Grammy wins.

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