Macklemore is on the receiving end of a new diss track from Wu-Tang Clan affiliate Remedy in response to the former’s pro-Palestine song, “Hind’s Hall.”
Remedy first appeared on the Wu-Tang Killa Bees: The Swarm album in 1998, giving a lesson on the Holocaust on the cut, “Never Again.”
Released on Thursday (May 30), Remedy’s new song and video “Ben” is meant to serve as a reminder to Macklemore of “when he dressed up in antisemitic stereotypical Jewish garb and how he heisted the Grammy from Kendrick Lamar.”
He also attempts to debunk many of Macklemore’s claims about Israel, apartheid, colonialism and genocide. Per a press release, Remedy will be donating the profits of the song to Polyphony, an organization that bridges the divide between the Palestinian and Israeli communities, by using music as a common ground.
Earlier this month, Macklemore dropped “Hind’s Hall” in solidarity with the nationwide demonstrations and promised to donate all proceeds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
In April, a group made up of staff, students, alumni and allies took over the institution’s Hamilton Hall and renamed it “Hind’s Hall” — an homage to Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was tragically killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) earlier this year.
Last year, Macklemore took to social media to explain his stance on the bloodshed in Palestine.
“When I say ‘Free Palestine,’ it’s not against anyone,” he said in late December. “It actually means we should protect everyone. It means equality for all. Respect, peace and love. It means the right to exist, regardless of what sector you’re from.
“My intention is to never offend anyone. I want every soul in this arena to feel the reflection of love. But there’s innocent humans out in Gaza getting murdered with our dollars, and those precious human lives are an extension of us.
“I can’t get up here and jump around in a fur coat and pretend while in my gut … my gut’s saying, ‘you know better, Ben.’ The ancestors yelling, ‘You’d better step up for us!’”
He concluded: “I love my Jewish brothers and sisters so much, and my perspective is one that’s saying ‘Free Palestine’ is also rooted in your protection, my loves. And there isn’t a drop of anti-Semitic thought in my head or my blood. ‘Never again,’ means never again for all.”
Macklemore is a straight up cornball.. I’ve never known anyone in my life to be a fan of him
I’m sure plenty of Macklemore haters will show up here that have never listened to anything other than “Thrift Shop” by him. He is a cornball though as the comment below stated. He’s just a talented one with heart.
This article is funny becuase it acknowledges the dis track and then spends more than half the article talking about Macklemore and “Hind’s Hall.”
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Wu tang affiliate? Losers, half of the guys in Wu tang could be considered affiliates, bunch of cornballs, 3 tier and 4 tier members on a pay scale
😂 they still on and yo @SS aint
remedy has a very typical na tsee P.O.W.: “It’s not gen o side, because I said so. It’s just 36 hundred thousand civilians, but WE, jooz, can’t be ray cists, because just because. We are poor, we are just, we never lie, we love Arabs, we love Iran, we love everybody. I also have Arab friends. They are very nice. One of them is an underachiever who I usually laugh at and the other one is a cashier who I greet every time I buy shampoo in his shop. We also gave Arabs rights they don’t have elsewhere. For example they can live in a segragated strip together and noone cares about how do they pray. They can be kweers too. They are a part of a democracy: street sweepers, plumbers, beggers. It’s not apart heyd it’s just democracy for God’s chosen people. We have proof we are natives here. We just killed out the Canaanites and Philistines. Anybody says I’m not right should be killed.”
f’ remedy!
36 thousand
Dear God learn basic grammar, spelling and FACTS before you try to sound smart. You really should be embarrassed but stupid people never are.
Remedy supported Trump’s first presidential nomination and is an ultra-Zionist. He still gets the Clan to record with him because he pays them and they take money from anyone and anything. Nuff said.
Remedy supported Trump’s first presidential nomination and is an ultra-Zionist. He still gets the Clan to record with him because he pays them and they take money from anyone and anything. Nuff said.
Remedy supported Trump’s first presidential nomination and is an ultra-Zionist. He still gets the Clan to record with him because he pays them and they take money from anyone and anything. Nuff said.
I donno what is worse, Remedy or Israel.
Both have no soul or style so they steal from others.
I donno what is worse, Remedy or Israel
Both have no soul and steal from everyone.
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gun to your head name a single good remedy song that isn’t with wu tang
Yeah, I don’t see the actual Wu-Tang being against Palestine. I liked Remedy’s first album but I don’t agree with him here.
There is no such thing as antisemitism.