Macklemore & Ryan Lewis have been one of the most successful independent Hip-Hop stories of all-time.
With Spring just around the corner, musical festival lineups are starting to take shape and the first domino to fall is the lineup for the annual Paid Dues festival.
Hip-Hop critics who spend more time focusing on negative aspects of the culture, should examine the career and life of independent MC Macklemore. Not many figures in the gamehave layers like the Seattle wordsmith, who recently exposed a little about his past in New York City with The Breakfast Club.
Macklemore’s successful underground album The Heist features a track titled “Same Love,” that discusses gay rights and the stigma attached to same-s-x marriage, and defends a demographic that’s chronically receives discrimination. Ironically, the very same song created to open the eyes of closed minded individuals is the sourceof controversy at Centennial Middle School of the South Lyon […]
For music fans in the city of Seattle, indie rap star Ben “Macklemore” Haggerty and his production partner Ryan Lewis are essentially household names. But beyond their Pacific Northwest confines, Macklemore’s fun-loving, yet polished rhymes should endear him to a far wider audience – especially so after making the XXL 2012 Freshmen Class cover. Already […]
Keeping up with the tradition of XXL Freshman, the publication along with Diddy, T.I. and Dj Whoo Kid, release the official 2012 XXL Freshman Class mixtape. Machine Gun Kelly, Danny Brown, Kid Ink, Future, Roscoe Dash, Hopsin, Macklemore, Don Trip, Iggy Azalea and French Montana all make appearances on this tape that is free 99 […]
XXL Magazine revealed its much anticipated Freshman 2012 cover today. Machine Gun Kelly, Danny Brown, Kid Ink, Future, Roscoe Dash, Hopsin, Macklemore, Don Trip, Iggy Azalea and French Montana made the cut for the special issue’s 5th anniversary. Although earning a spot on the cover doesn’t guarantee runaway success (ask Lil B or OJ Da Juiceman), […]
