Tag: Macklemore
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Same Love – Angel Haze
As Pride Month comes to a close, here’s Angel Haze with their amazing freestyle version of Macklemore’s Same Love. Fallen in love with this song all again, I’d argue better than the original – and incidentally this song is how they came out as pansexual and later agender.
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The New Separatism: Assimilation, Appropriation and Authenticity
I love this article by Julia Serano ‘Considering Trans and Queer Appropriation’ partly because it ties together many things I’ve been thinking about from very different spheres, as any good article should. Mostly about white hip hop and pop, and the whole Macklemore vs LE1F controversy as well as the probably now forgotten Miley Cyrus…
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RC 247: Jungle Revival
Lion image originally by Nick Johnson (CC Attribution 2) Sad lion is sad…but happily for him but maybe not his direction finding skillset, jungle is back, at least on this podcast. Alla dem junglist massif, as they used to say. No idea what it meant, but it sounded tres cool at the time, soundbwoy. Or…
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RC 245: NSA (National Sunshine Allowance aka Who Stole The Sunshine?)
Who Stole the Sunshine and Show 244? Well it seems to be this little fellow, obviously working for the NSA (National Sunshine Allowance, not No Strings Attached). Thankfully the sunshine escaped the PRISM and is now back, but show 244 seems to be still in chains somewhere in Gitmo after a brief trip on a…
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I can’t change even if I wanted to…My love, she keeps me warm
I had seen the video but never connected it, well I did to gay marriage, but not the personal side. The amazing singer? Mary Lambert, I guess she’s singing to her girlfriend, Rachel. Mackelmore, more than a one-hit wonder, has a gay uncle (well uncles – hey they legally multiply now! 😉 and talked about…
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If I was gay I would think hip-hop hates me
Love this song and video by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Yes hip-hop has a problem, inability to face up with the false-machismo and being gay with “No Homo” and “faggot” and all that shit – as a gay hip-hop fan I do find it hard sometimes. But as Mac says: If I was gay I…