History Music / Macklemore

->''I'm gonna pop some tags''

->''This is fucking awesome!''

** "Thrift Shop" as a whole is one to the high-spending, materialistic lifestyle of modern rappers in general. [[AnAesop You don't need to be rich to look awesome.]] The lyrics feature a more direct one: "I prolly shouda washed this, it smells like Music/RKelly's [[NeverLiveItDown sheets...]] [[DontExplainTheJoke pissssss...]]"

* JustForFun/XMeetsY:[[invoked]] In "Ten Thousand Hours" he describes himself as Music/KanyeWest meets Music/DavidBowie.

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are also on their own independent music label.

* ''The Vs.'' Redux (EP) (2010)

* WhiteMansBurden: Both "White Privilege" songs, and to a lesser extent "Same Love," have earned him criticism for speaking out on a subject matter than he can only ever have a limited understand of.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: In "Ten Thousand Hours" he describes himself as Music/KanyeWest meets Music/DavidBowie.

Ben Haggerty (born June 19, 1983), known professionally as Macklemore, is a Seattle-based conscious/alternative hip-hop artist.

* XMeetsY: In "Ten Thousand Hours" he describes himself as Music/KanyeWest meets Music/DavidBowie.

'''Ben Haggerty''' (born June 19, 1983), known professionally as '''Macklemore''', is a Seattle-based conscious/alternative hip-hop artist.

* WhitePrivilege: He has two songs by this title on the subject. The first is about how white rappers are capitalizing on a style of music rooted in black suffrage, while the second is about the controvertial "Black Lives Matter" movement.
** WhiteGuilt: The two songs are also about his self-consciousness as a white rapper, and if he even deserves to be successful because of it.
*** WhiteMansBurdon: Both "White Privilege" songs, and to a lesser extent "Same Love," have earned him criticism for speaking out on a subject matter than he can only ever have a limited understand of. Some have even accused him of playing the victim card with his aforementioned white guilt.

** Happens twice near the end of "Light Tunnels" on ''This Unruly Mess I've Made".

* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Thrift Shop" again.

* XMeetsY: In "Ten Thousand Hours" he describes himself as KanyeWest meets DavidBowie.

In 2012, he and producer Ryan Lewis released his first studio album, ''The Heist'' which, despite going under the radar upon release, became a critical and overnight success after the runaway success of its fifth and final single "Thrift Shop". His songs "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us" both peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, The former even winning the Creator/TripleJ ''Hottest 100'' for that year, and his album peaked at number two on the ''Billboard'' 200, although neither were promoted or advertised on any mainstream media. In 2014, Macklmore won four Grammys, including Best New Artist, Best Rap Album (''The Heist''), Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance ("Thrift Shop").

After finishing a bachelor's degree, he decided to pursue his musical interests and took a job at a juvenile detention facility, where he was involved in a project called "Gateways", engaging troubled youth through Rap. In 2000 he released the EP ''Open Your Eyes'' under the moniker "Professor Macklemore". Five years later he shortened the name to the current Macklemore and his full-length debut,''The Language of My World'', was released.

* AndNinetyNineCents: In "Thrift Shop", Macklemore exclaims,"...but, shit, it was ninety-nine cents!"

* AndNinetyNineCents: In "Thrift Shop", Macklemore goes,"...but, shit, it was ninety-nine cents!"

** The car Macklemore raps about in "White Walls" isn't some ridiculously pricey status symbol car like a Bugatti or Maybach as is popular in today's rap culture but an old school Cadillac like his Grandpa used to have.
* AndNinetyNineCents: In "Thrift Shop", Macklemore goes,"...but, shit, it was ninety-nine cents!"