Macklemore, Hip-Hop’s new millennium Great White Hype is actually more than just hype — the HNIC over at Rolling Stone magazine seems to agree with me, too. The “Thrift Shop” Seattle rapper makes his cover debut on Aug. 16 (lovingly known in my household as Madonna’s birthday) and he shares who he really is above and beyond the glamour of being a white rapper with radio hits.
“I went through a place of not being happy, getting put in the box of ‘This is a novelty rap song,’ and being like, ‘What did I sign up for’?” he told Rolling Stone.
When “Can’t Hold Us,” music video dropped — I knew Ben Haggerty, a.k.a. Macklemore, was more than just about clothes. But, when the pro-gay-rights track, “Same Love,” hit my radio speakers, I was floored by the white rapper’s humanity, which is completely lacking in rap music, and I dare say in Hip-Hop. “The legacy that I’m leaving on the world is more than just a song about second-hand clothes,” he says.
Furthermore, the fact that Haggerty is an openly recovering alcoholic and drug addict at such a pivotal point in his sky rocketing career is very alluring. I can’t wait to grab the issue myself, maybe at Target, even.
If I was gay, I would think Hip-Hop hates me … #ThingsMacklemoreWouldSay
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