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US Arenas Cancel Macklemore Benefit Shows
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2026
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I have just gone from someone who would never go to a Macklemore concert to someone who will pay top dollar for Macklemore tickets. I don't even know what genre this is. Kidsbop or something? Who cares? This guy has earned my deep respect.
We need more major artists to use their platform for good the way this man is doing. Macklemore is setting an example and deserves massive public support.
If he gets blacklisted by LiveNation (which is what this sounds like), and if other major artists decide to also follow suit, wrecking a monopoly could become a nice side-effect to helping stop a genocide.
I'd call it funky melodic hip hop. Kinda like Outkast, Jurassic 5 or Blackaliscious to my ear, but I'm not intensely familiar with it.
Your description just made me interested in more than the politics.
You must've heard Thrift Shop when it was topping the charts, right? As much as the song was played so much that everyone got sick of it, it was for a damn good reason. The beat's a banger, the lyrics and video are funny. Though the beat itself is produced by his former musical partner Ryan Lewis. Macklemore wrote the lyrics though.
Not all of his songs are as memorable as the really big ones, but the man definitely has talent for entertainment, with or without politics being involved.
Yeah, he's good. This boost he's getting is well-deserved, musically. Plus his songs back up his statements, he's not just virtue-signaling or bandwagoning. The Heist is a great album.
Sounds good. Count me in.