The Irish people have had it rough the past few hundred years.
Dying from famines, being killed or sold into slavery by the English, Lit majors pretending to know who James Joyce was, and now… having to be associated with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
When I first saw this a few weeks ago, I brushed it off because I thought it was just a really bad rapper trying to cash in on Irish stereotypes. Then I kept seeing it posted around the interwebs. Now, you can’t swing a dead cat around without seeing this guy being mentioned online. But why?
- Rap Skill Level: Pretty much worse than the guy from The Streets.
- Political Appeal: Closest you get is around 1:20 where he almost makes a political statement about the Irish/English conflict, but then immediately backs off and is all ‘jk luv u 5ever London’.
- Black: No
Then a link to another of Macklemore’s songs came up and it all made perfect sense…
Macklemore has hipster appeal. He’s from Seattle, writes songs about thrift shops, his group even has a violinist and a trumpet player in it (pictured here in a Fedora).
There’s even a song about having too much money as a kid (srs):
And yet, the group isn’t just playing the token white rap gig at hipster festivals, as Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have a #1 album on itunes.
Is it just that hipsters only use Apple products?
Is it because people who enjoy mediocre rap played over samples from the death rattles of the illegitimate children in the Lost and Found at Bumbershoot aren’t smart enough to torrent?
Or is this really just a perfect storm of West Coast hipster bullshit heading inland under the guise of non-offensive Will Smith level rapping that will eventually spiral into something that FEMA will have to get called in for?
In b4 his fanbase realizes they made him popular and ditch him like they ditched basic grooming habits.
Macklemore has got me through some tough times when struggling with pill addiction. (srs) Check out the song Otherside. Glad to see him finally get recognized. h8 on me.
The crime is the punishment, fggt.
Seriously, you could have picked any gay hipster shit to latch on to in your moment of need & you chose THIS FROOT???? Plz reconsider that whole that whole pill-addiction thing.
Alternately heres a few moar bands you REALLY need to “get into” because there SOOO DEEP AND MEANINGFUL:
Death Cab For Cutie
Antony & the Johnsons
The Black Keys
TV On The Radio
Six organs of Admittance
Sleigh Bells
Fun.
MGMT
Wavves
The Decemberists
MC Paul Barman
Pomplamoose
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
White Rabbits
Beach House
The Airborne Toxic Event
Northern State
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Beirut
Grizzly Bear
Bright Eyes
Arcade Fire
tUnE-yArDs
Bon Iver
Devandra Banhart
lol@wavves being deep and meaningful ever. nate williamz is that kid who smoked pot all the time instead of being in gym class and he was friends with the 5 black people at your high school.
I actually like Wavves but a list of bands that rich white pussy’s jock wouldn’t be complete without them, I could have included the Oh-Sees too but they’re still semi-fggt-proof. I excluded the 6,000,000 white-backpack-rap acts too (Die Antwoort/Max Normal etc.), cause who’s got that kind of time?
Die Antwood are an actual non-ironic joke band. No trace of backpack there.
DO YOU EVEN ZEF, FGGT?
Die Antwoord is crazy awesome and their vids crack my shit up.
srs backed hard on beirut zach condon really “speaks to me”
He’s actually saying, “finger ur ayyynusssss”.
I am shamed beyond belief for not including Iron & Wine, beardfag-logcabin-tomsshoes-cocktail-selvedgejean-bookreaders par exellence.
why no cliche atmosphere/slugg?
ded @ bon iver =P
file this under special snowflake syndrome/ white foolishness =D
The ironic thing is, most white people you will meet in London, are of Irish decent. You Ameri-bros have to stop pretending to be Irish, and accept your own, newly formed, fun culture.
EXACTLY, anybody with 1/2 a brain left that dump-called-europe @ their 1st opportunity & KEPT HEADING WEST until they found CALIFAS, anybody suffering from ethnostalgia needs to GTFO!
co-signed, an euro who wants to get the fuck out of that dump as soon as possible.
The problem is Americans (stupidly) think it’s not cool to admit America is actually a pretty awesome and fun place!
YES FUCK YES!!! thank u guise!! this is wut us mexis and other latin americans up in this bitch are always trying to splain to these gringos… lolz good shit… keep heading west bros unless you like pseudo-irish spesh snowies from basten and the north east n shit that are basically like this hipster/speshy snowie alt rapper except with a “wicked” east coast accent ;-D
AMERICA FUCK YEA!!
Oh and btw, drinking Guinness and sporting shamrock tattoos does not make you look Irish, it makes you look like an insufferable Dropkick Murphys fan
I am an expat American living in NZ and I tell people how awesome America is all of the time (srs), which is a lot because NZers have a huge inferiority complex to Australia and the US and like to complain about America a lot. #ProudtobeanAmericanbecauseatleastIknowI’mfree
I know that feel. So many rants about how gay America is from ppl who’ve never been there. Fuggin Kiwis :(
Whilst what i saw of America was pretty gay, Kiwi’s bitchin of other places gets pretty fuckin tiresome. Unrelated, US/Aus wld benefit from less fat people (NZ’s always gonna be gay, to many Maori’s)
They’ll kick your ass in rugby any day though… All Blacks 5ever
nothing more infuriating going to college, having an awesome time and learning a ton, and dealing with heaps of asshats trying to tell me what a fucking uncultured, shallow, boring, unfair, unjust, un-everything place America is. Well then have mommy and daddy send you to universidad de venezuela or some shit and get out.
White people buy more records, doing things hipster white people like is an easy to be “famous” as a rapper, AKA sell a lot of merch and play hipster festivals.
DEFEND WHITE RAPERS
Quality post. Thanks for the immunization
That thrift shop video seemed rly zany and fun. As an upper middle class white teen, I approve.
As a working class OTW, can we bro down so i can live vicariously through your successful non-immigrant educated parents which is the reason why you’re an upper middle class gavacho teen? I promise to not stab or get into fights with your local bros and only sleep with OTB-eyed gringas/blondes (brunettes are not my thing via liking things that are opposite of what my stereotypes lyke)… I also promise to teach you espanol so you can smooth talk that yogurtland/forever 21 mall bish that you like which ive probs already slept with via suburban white girls liking guys that their parents disapprove of( aka OTWs) =D
My dad is actually an otw immigrant (srs). And yes, I would love to bro down with you and learn the art of seducing suburban white girls.
fuggin’ sweet..
*brofist*
Loved the thrifting song when I found it a few weeks ago but that’s just because I’m a cheap jackass who legitimately enjoys thrifting all the time. Can’t really get into the other songs. My housemate this year is from Portland and was telling me about how much he worships this dude and how much more “meaningful” and “deep” his rapping is compared to everything else out right now (srs).
I can’t back very many white rappers and I don’t think he’s going to make the list too soon.
So I understand that this highly misguided entry to your blog was fueled by the hurt you felt from your anus after finding out that there is a hip hop song out there that is some what Celtic themed, (we all know your hatred for bands like Dropkick Murphy’s) but Macklemore isn’t one of those types of musicians. It saddens me to see some people just brushing him off as some just sort of Hipster rapper and there for anything he does must be some trendy gimmicky bullshit but that’s not the case at all. Macklemore has been in the Seattle hip hop scene for a long ass time and has made some of my favorite local hip hop up here, He’s a really cool much respected guy that grew up in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, so why would he try and front like he’s hood? He’s just being himself and he touches on a lot of topics that other rappers won’t. His “fun tracks” aren’t nearly as great as his others but I still like them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1327f-3oC8s Dude’s got skillz
This post actually wasn’t made by Sarge (the one who hates DKM, etc). If you saw Sarge’s name, holy shit would you understand why he hates Irish music lolololol
that was a painful cypher, super corny, must really suck to be in Seattle and be a rapper.
Seattle rap scene
There’s your fucking sign.
I ain’t sayin you only a legit rapper if you from the bricks, but I ain’t down with this white coonery. Just because he “really speaks to his fans” doesn’t make it okay.
There’s a reason the most famous rapper to come out of there was Sir Mix-A-Lot
No the only reason why the biggest rapper to come out of Seattle was Sir mix a lot is because the whole pacific northwest was overlooked, the same thing happened to other regions in America. Pennsylvania never got any mainstream appeal in the 00′s but now with Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller Pittsburgh is on top of the game. The internet has cut out the middle man and made it so any body can have access to your music, the whole Seattle hip hop scene is finally starting to get some of recognition it deserves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL9FT0GYkXA
LOL
Endorsed by black people? HELL NO.
Are you non ironically DEFENDING TROO HIP HOP?
I dunno about all that….put it this way, as a wise man once said: “some muthafuckas are always tryin to ice skate uphill”
“white coonery”
<–dying
YO I HEARD THIS MACKLMORE CAT DRINKS STR8 VODKA AT PARTIES. NOT EVEN MIXED.
I am not Sarge
Gaelic Storm > Dropkick
///why would he try and front like he’s hood?\\\
“And then my friend Carlos’ brother got murdered for his fours, whoa
See he just wanted a jump shot, but they wanted a Starter coat though
Didn’t wanna get caught, from Genesee Park to Othello
You’d get clowned for those Pro Wings, with the velcro”
Which is probably more of a reference to the shit that happened in 2011 in Seattle, rather than when he was younger. Which he then uses as an excuse for the rest of the song which is about anti-materialism and how he thinks corporations are being to corporationy.
Also, he makes the ‘No Catch’/'Safe’ signals with his hands every 5-7 seconds during his songs. Diversify your stage presence brah.
sick lold at dat song of him growing up having too much money x-D
my ghetto side says: “JACK THIS FUCKER’S SHOES N JERSEY. His parents can afford more!!”
but my calm bro side says: “chill and befriend this guy. His parents gots dinero and can feed you whenever you come over! Besides you know he probs got hot white bishes somewhere in his cul-de-sac neighborhood! Enjoy his videogames and satellite tv!! Become the minori-friend and lvl up in lyfe!!”
Cringe/10.Terrible corny lyrics.
I bet the ancestor that gave this fruit his 1/32th irish blood/ Wigga USP emigrated long before 1916. Of course there’s a lot more history than that but this douche wouldn’t know it.
By referring to the Irish emigrating, what he really means is sold as a slave for 1/10th the price of an OTW slave.
‘Naw London, you’re alright’: said no pro-Irish song ever
“In b4 his fanbase realizes they made him popular and ditch him like they ditched basic grooming habits.”
BABABABABABABOOOOOOOOOOM
#CmonSonGetTheFuckOuttaHereWithThatBullshit
Makes me wish for Asher Roth’s “I Love College” to be the official college white boy song. : (
I’m glad I was raised as a normal american mutt white guy instead of an old country ethnic pride american white guy. The closest my family comes to showing any heritage is some swedish meatballs at christmas and the occasional serving of crepes.
that being said pretty odd to get all butthurt about the dude. Seems like he’s just doing his thang and doesn’t really impact me.
normal white person here, thrift shop is decent but the other two tracks are pretty boring/annoying
did you just h8 on the streets?
word. mike skinner is a true artist. not sure if u r srs, but i am. haha, Blinded by the Lights is def. on the pre-game playlist.
i am also being srs (srs)
Posting to say I love Mike Skinner/The Streets. :-/
Blinded by the Lights is tits
My fav:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5OaqUMplBQ
I dig The Streets to the max but still say that Skinner is one of the most awkward sounding rappers/singers/talkers ever on every album.
He makes it work though.
The latest album was A+ too. Hopefully not their last.
haha. this is kinda shitty/corny. would still jump his bones though (via being from delaware and so having a thing for yo boys)
I do say chaps, the author of this post seems rather rectum-pained. I do declare, he must be new to the site which we are now all reading.
the first thing i thought of when i first heard macklemore is “man, this guy loves atmosphere”.
There’s actually an interview where he gets really nervous when asked about Atmosphere, made me lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWe9rnu32Kk
Also, google image search Malibu’s Most Wanted
Did anyone buy cruel summer
Not big on this at all and people in Seattle get super butthurt when you tell them that you don’t like Macklemore. Dude worked hard (pause), but I don’t like his shit. I like my rap hella ignorant and violent (in b4 Psychopathic Records)
i realize im late to this, but thrift shop is super fun to get wrecked to. backed/10
This post is some hipster bullshit.
Bloggers doing their blogger thing… bitching.
Now lick that cheeto mung off’n your sausage fingers and get back to monkey-hammering your keyboard.
Seattle in charge of little brother syndrome.
Protip: don’t defend garbage just because it’s your garbage