https://web.archive.org/web/20240826010927/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/macklemore-cancels-dubai-protest-uae-sudan-1235984195/
"Our individual liberation IS Palestinian liberation," the singer wrote. "Is Sudanese liberation. Is Congolese liberation."
"Our individual liberation IS Palestinian liberation," the singer wrote. "Is Sudanese liberation. Is Congolese liberation."
Based on his comments, I honestly think he's getting there. The ongoing attack on Palestine are even radicalizing celebrities, it seems. Next we'll get Macklemore opening for Roger Waters.
I'll give macklemore some credit. He's been taking feedback, reading, and applying it in practice this year
Well... a lot of big artists are soulless ghouls, so it's understandably a nice surprise when an artist shows some degree of moral character.
Right? Like, was he just cool with the stuff going on in Dubai before this? Did he even know? Maybe just too busy/insulated by money.
I was in the goodwill just yesterday so makelmore was in my mind, what a coincidence. Anyway that aside looks like Mackelmore was sleepin till 10 months ago
“While numerous external forces contribute to this crisis, advocates, organizers, journalists, and officials repeatedly highlight the UAE’s role in funding the RSF militia as a major factor" .”
“At the end of the day I have to ask myself what is my intention as an artist?” Macklemore continued on Saturday. “The last 10 months l’ve been learning what factors/motivators feed genocide and global systemic oppression. I keep getting led back to self interest over collective interest at the root. Capitalism is the glue that holds this ideology together. And if I take the money, while knowing it doesn’t sit right with my spirit, how am I any different than the politicians I’ve been actively protesting against? How can I be outraged by their lack of integrity while compromising my own? How am I different than the countries that put dollars and power over human life?”
“Although dismantling systemic oppression might not fully happen during my lifetime, our collective analysis is evolving,” he wrote. “That is where it starts. "
Oh shit! This is actually way more than i expected!
Out if all possible artists to make a protest song it's fuckin goofy ass Mackelmore? Goddamnit. Now i gotta go listen to some of his shit. At least the one in the college protests. Who knows? Maybe his music will get more radical going forward. We could all be singing revolution songs by makelmore !
fuck me, wouldn't that be something?
Macklemore has always meant well. I remember when he won the Grammy for best rap album, he was apologizing because he knew he only got it because he was white. Kendrick Lamar was the very obvious choice. His music is pretty hit or miss, but he seems like an alright dude
This bit right here, his understanding of his place and what it improperly awarded him, is exactly why Macklemore is maybe one of five Amerikan whites I exempt from my lambasting of crackers and their works
Dolly Parton, Marshall Mathers, Lady Gaga, and John Darnielle.
All names here subject to disfellowship if they act up; I've only recently started coming around to the fact that maybe I was too hard on Marshall, and that he wasn't the Elvis-assed snake I read him as for years.
Marshall Mathers kind of rubs me the wrong way just because he continued (don't know if he still does) using homophobic slurs and references to misogynistic violence in his lyrics well into the period where that stuff had already become generally recognized as "not great".
Not to say he didn't put out a lot of bangers but he still seems like a pretty standard asshole in a lot of ways.
his most well-known song is about thrift shopping, and in 2012 he made a song called same love about gay rights. i think he's always been a decent person but also got rich, but palestine seems to have really shaken him into action
Wonder if he has like a fan mail address so I can send him some Lenin and shit.
Most people don't follow every aspect of global conflicts. To say they were "cool with the stuff..." is a bit disingenuous. Learning about a specific situation that is ongoing and adapting your beliefs to the new information is exactly what people should do.
But also, maybe he did know about it and only gave a shit recently, I really don't know.
I'm talking more about the horrific labor practices that have been in mainstream press multiple times over the years and the fact that the place is just a huge unsustainable environmental disaster. These are pretty old, cold takes even by western media standards, but like I said maybe he's just too busy with his own shit and never knew about it.
Very fair! Too busy playing in plenty of other places equally as evil and unsustainable probably.
Put put a song called Hinds Hall about the college protests too, he's pretty good on foreign policy stuff in general and has been for a while, deff way left of your average lib.
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