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Latest Release
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- 7 MAY 2024
- 1 Song
- The Heist (Deluxe Edition) · 2011
- These Days (feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen) · 2018
- GEMINI · 2017
- GEMINI · 2017
- The Heist (Deluxe Edition) · 2012
- The Heist (Deluxe Edition) · 2012
- I Don’t Belong in This Club - Single · 2019
- The Heist (Deluxe Edition) · 2012
- HIND'S HALL - Single · 2024
- Summer Days (feat. Macklemore & Patrick Stump) - Single · 2019
Albums
Artist Playlists
- The self-aware rapper paid his dues long before crashing the mainstream.
- His clips are as fun and playful as they are emotional.
- From 2Pac's morality tales to the humour of the "Humpty Dance".
More To Hear
- Conversation around his album, 'BEN.'
- The artist on his latest single “CHANT."
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About Macklemore
In a 2016 interview with Apple Music, Seattle rapper Macklemore recounted the moment when, at age 17, he realised his life’s true calling. Hip-hop, he said, was “my means of trying to figure out who I am, and to figure out my truth, and look at society and get closer to a connection to something much bigger than myself.” It would take some time for him to make that greater connection: The MC born Benjamin Haggerty in 1983 dropped his first mixtape in 2000 and spent the next decade doing the underground grind. But during those DIY days, Macklemore developed a reputation for intense introspection and keen cultural observations—on his 2005 track “White Privilege”, he examined not only the gentrification of hip-hop from black street music to commercial commodity but also his own complicity in that process as a white MC. Upon connecting with producer Ryan Lewis in 2009, Macklemore finally acquired the megaphone that allowed him to project his big ideas to the masses. Their 2012 self-released debut, The Heist, crashed the Billboard Top 5 and scooped up four Grammys thanks to a string of unlikely crossover hits—like the sax-squawked anti-luxury anthem “Thrift Shop” and the pro-LGBTQ ballad “Same Love”—that betrayed his love of pre-millennial hip-hop sounds while interrogating some of the genre’s problematic materialist and homophobic tendencies. Success has only intensified Macklemore’s conflicted relationship with rap: On his 2017 solo single, “Good Old Days”, he looks back fondly at his early years as an unknown MC trying to break into the game; however, the track’s elegant, ascendant piano chords and heartrending Kesha cameo suggests he’s grown evermore accustomed to playing the crowd-pleasing pop star.
- HOMETOWN
- Seattle, WA, United States
- BORN
- 19 June 1983
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap