Macklemore & Ryan Lewis “Thrift Shop” Hits Number One

[Pool_Shark]

 

[Tuc2DaBoot]

We need to look right now at what is happening to the culture.

I'm trying to tell them... but they're not paying attention. Radio play and white girls' approval will get anyone liked around here.

 

[Bezerk]

#1 record in the country as a indie artist

that's impressive

 

[tirademode]

The majority of people pushing this trash have no business deciding what's number one . Unfortunately the power is in the hands of the brainless.

There's no such thing as a hit anymore.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

.......................

 

[Danie84]

I still have yet to hear this song

Not that I want to

 

[BigWorm]

 

[LittleLordBboy]

I like the song but my only gripe with shyt like this is if I was out at night and seen dude I would think he's trying way too hard. Yet people watch it on youtube and everyone knows the song, all of sudden it becomes fly. I've hung in more hipster / indie spots and most of the crowd is nothing like this. And you can tell at times who's "ironic poor" and overpaying for weird shyt and who's just cool and has their own style.

 

[PIFF101]

Was at a party on Sat and they popped this song on. Everybody knew it front to back..I'm like

 

[Tuc2DaBoot]

I like the song but my only gripe with shyt like this is if I was out at night and seen dude I would think he's trying way too hard. Yet people watch it on youtube and everyone knows the song, all of sudden it becomes fly. I've hung in more hipster / indie spots and most of the crowd is nothing like this. And you can tell at times who's "ironic poor" and overpaying for weird shyt and who's just cool and has their own style.

People are trying so hard to make this indie/hipster rap thing the new, cool subgenre in rap. So hard.

The labels tried Asher Roth and while he could rap and had real co-signs, he couldn't hold the public's attention for long... so they tried to get more hipster about it and pushed Mac Miller, a younger, more party-friendly type dude. He's working alright but he still wasn't REALLY getting the job done across the board.

Now insert Macklemore. Dude supposedly has a "back story" so he's supposedly "real"... then add him with a hipster anthem in "Thrift Shop" and now he's covering all bases. The party crowd, low key hipster, even older white people like this record on some Weird Al Yankovic type shyt.

Makclemore is just everything these people could ask for. That's why he's blowing up much more than anyone else from that indie/hipster lane.

 

[Marvel]

I saw that it was number 1 on spotify and was like

 

[LittleLordBboy]

People are trying so hard to make this indie/hipster rap thing the too subgenre in rap. So hard.

The labels tried Asher Roth and while he could rap and had real co-signs, he couldn't hold the public's attention for long... so they tried to get more hipster about it and pushed Mac Miller, a younger, more party-friendly type dude. He's working alright but he still wasn't REALLY getting the job done across the board.

Now insert Macklemore. Dude supposedly has a "back story" so he's supposedly "real"... then add him with a hipster anthem in "Thrift Shop" and now he's covering all bases. The party crowd, low key hipster, even older white people like this record on some Weird Al Yankovic type shyt.

Makclemore is just everything these people could ask for. That's why he's blowing up much more than anyone else from that indie/hipster lane.

Mac Miller is more bro / frat rap. Asher Roth switched lanes and just didn't have staying power. Thrift Shop is catchy pop music masquerading as "hipster" because he's wearing some against the grain gear and not talking about flossing, etc.

 

[#1 pick]

This is probably my favorite rap song right now but I didn't know he was a white boy till today

 

[Danie84]

You couldn't tell by Macklemore that he was a cac

 

[#1 pick]

You couldn't tell by his name he was a cac

I didn't even know the name of the song till today. I typed in pop some tags and seen it was a cac like