Macklemore says that Eminem benefits from White privilege.
“He’s a White person who raps,” Macklemore says during an interview with Billboard. “I think regardless of where you come from or how amazing you are, you’re still a White person appropriating a Black art form.”
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ new This Unruly Mess I’ve Made album features the song “White Privilege II,” in which Macklemore raps, “The culture was never yours to make better — you’re Miley, you’re Elvis, you’re Iggy Azalea.”
Although he intended that line to mean that he was part of that group of White artists, listeners may not taken it that way.
“I don’t think people understood that I’m in my own head [saying], ‘You’re Miley. You’re Elvis. You’re Iggy Azalea,’” Macklemore says. “I’m talking about myself.”
Iggy Azalea took offense to the comment, but Macklemore says he hasn’t talked to her since she tweeted that, “he shouldnt have spent the last 3 yrs having friendly convos and taking pictures together at events etc if those were his feelings.”
Macklemore Says He Botched Kendrick Lamar Rap Grammy Situation
Macklemore also says that he handled his interaction with Kendrick Lamar poorly when his The Heist album with Lewis won the Best Rap album Grammy over the Compton, California rapper’s good kid, m.A.A.d city two years ago. Macklemore texted Lamar to say that he’d gotten robbed out of the award. Macklemore then posted a screenshot of his text on Instagram.
“When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there,” Macklemore says in the Billboard interview. “You’re like, ‘Whatever I say in the media, they’re going to take it [a certain] way” — it becomes about another artist, and the intention is never received in the way it was intended.”
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Macklemore really needs to get the f away from rap…
Cucklemore’s This Unruly Cringe I made is hands down the most unlistenable piece of garbage I have ever listened to. Kill yourself Macklemore, you preachy homosexual.
In other news, Eminem pays this no mind and continues to rap circles around him. Just go away already. All this kid does is seek acceptance from anybody who will listen? “Let’s make a song about almost being a homo so we can tap into the gay market” – Same Love. “Let’s make a record acknowledging white privilege” – White Privilege I & II “Let’s gain acceptance from the old heads to show everybody that we’re hip hop.” – Downtown “Let’s show everybody that we’re cool with Kendrick by posting a screenshot of our text regarding our AotY Grammy win!” We get it, you just want to be accepted for everything that you do! Guess what? Your music is corny af!
Why do you even know all that macklemore trivia?
I love Hip Hop!
holy fuck i hate this dude. it’s not like white rappers get an easy go of it in rap, people need to prove themselves more. eminem is good DESPITE being white, not because he was given an easy pass. what an idiot. macklemore trying to drag all white people into his self-loathing downward spiral.
thats a fact and shit is really annoying..esp to white people who never grew up in the suburbs with a silver spoon like him
Not a Macklemore fan but I think this headline is a bit misleading. Ot seems to say that Macklemore is dismissing Em when all he’s saying is something Em said in the song White America :
Let’s do the math
If I was black I woulda sold half
I ain’t have to graduate from Lincoln High School to know that
Em already acknowledges this but journalists are really trying to start something else here. Em would do well to ignore this.
Fuck this politically correct lefty cuckold. Dude is a total cuckold, wasn’t he at some #blacklivesmatter demo too, holdin his hands up with all them black folks all that “don’t shoot” shit.. fuckin cuckold sure seems to hate his white skin
Mack is tripping for 1 reason from the black standpoint: em opened the door for you, & in the Lincoln High School line he acknowledged his white privilege. Damned if you do, damned if you dont, but you cant then turn into the white privilege police lol. I respected the of W.P. 2, even because Em’s name was left off. Say whatever you wanna, Mack would not be rapping if Em never rapped…
I don’t know if Em necessarily opened the door for him. There’ve been a lot of white rappers prior. Em just took it to a commercial level.
I kinda agree with you…Em came in when you had to pay your dues regardless, but especially when you white.. Em made his bones and there were other white rappers before that did the same but were not popular…macklemore didn’t need to engage the hip-hop community at all.
Hip hop is not a black art form, iits an art form that happened to be primarily done by blacks in its early stages. I know Mack thinks he is doing the right thing, but at the end of the day he is just perpetuating the notion that races should stay in their lanes, which ultimately hurts blacks more than whites.
Sorry to tell you but rap was invented by blacks. Don’t get butthurt at the truth.
“Hip hop is not a black art form, iits an art form that happened to be primarily done by blacks in its early stages. ”
What kind of a mental little 15 year old whie kid are you? You don’t know jack about Hip Hop you probably don’t even know where rapping stems from Hip Hop. What the fuck do you mean it was primarily done by blacks in its early stages it was CREATED SINGLE HANDEDLY by BLACKS. White people have never been recognized in Hip Hop or even as rappers with th exception of Eminem. When your entire fanbase consists of suburban white kids like Macklemore’s you aren’t considered a rapper, just a pop artist. Vanilla Ice was just considered a gay and a clown. Only Eminem gets respect as a rapper by Hip Hop fans and even then, the hood doesn’t fuck with him. Hip Hop is entirely a black art form, don’t ever get it fucked up. Macklemore has no influence on Hip Hop he’s a pop artist.
Are u stupid? No white ppl other than Eminem have been recognized? Fat joe, the BEASTIE BOYS? House of pain, jump around?! Mac miller is pretty decent.
I guarantee you I know more about hip hop than you do? Maybe on a mainstream level there have been very few prominent white rappers, but in the underground white people and black people make music together without the hateful bigoted views that races need to own cultures and outsiders of that race require special privileges. Check Rhymesayers, Army of the Pharoahs, Living Legends, Project Blowed, etc. These are all underground scenes where white and black rappers make good music without making a big fuss about white or black, without calling the white boys out for being white, or any of that stupid shit, all in the interest of making good music. Just because blacks created it doesn’t mean that any black person is more qualified to do it than any white person, that would be racist if whites applied that logic. Aren’t we past that kind of stupidity as a nation? There is no “cultural appropriation” it is an American culture and anyone can rap if they want.
If you listen to any OG’s talk about things most of them never claim that hip-hop was meant to be exclusively for black people. They talk about giving a voice to inner-city kids living in an oppressive environment. It wasn’t about excluding anybody especially if you had something dope to contribute. It was predominantly black kids absolutely, but there’ve been latinos and white folks involved since the beginning. I mean Rick Rubin started Def Jam in like 83. The fact is that even though we give well-deserved credit to the black community for creating hip hop there are and always have been people of all backgrounds working behind the scenes to create the music you listen to and that’s a beautiful thing.
Youre ignorant fat joe aint white he latino
Is it me or are the sjw’s of the world only succeeding in making people more racist?? Em is hands down one of the greatest lyricists alive and Dre gave him his opportunity because he could see that ability in him. But now with idiots like macklemore coming out and saying “it’s a race thing! it’s a race thing!!” it all feels like just one giant step backward.
facts
Looks like Macklemore wants to become the next Lord Jamar.
Enough with this culture appropriation bullshit. Every time I hear this crap come up it reminds me just how immature Hip-Hop is as an art form compared to others. You don’t hear nonsense being touted in any other genre. If a black artist wants to rap or sing to Bollywood beats they don’t have to name check and ass kiss pioneers of that genre. If a black person wants to do metal, no-one expects them to “pay homage” or anything. Only in rap can you write and produce your own music and then be expected to credit someone else for the contribution that you created. Grow the fuck up kids, the music is either good or it isn’t! As for Macklemore, stop fucking pandering to race obsessed Tumblr tard fuck nuggets out there and show some fucking backbone.
YOU HAVE A POINT!
Oh fuck you Mac. Cultural appropriation applies to religious items/traditions/beliefs and deeply rooted, highly honored traditions. Hip hip and rap do not apply to this because last time I checked, rap isn’t a religion or scared tradition. Eminem has acknowledged his “privilege” (I use that term loosely) in several songs like “white america”. We don’t need mr politically-correct-goody-two-shoes acting like he’s doing everyone a favor by pointing out to every white rapper that they are white. Eminem grew up in absolutely awful conditions dispite his skin color. Get off your fucking high horse.
Well said. And true
Amen
Eminm has Eminem privilege… It comes from being a legend. There is NO white privilege in hip-hop.. There is white privilege when you are a popstar under the hip-hop format. Em got jerked by every label. He had the source totally try to sabotage his career. Go watch the 97 rap Olympics where Em ate that dude alive and lost. He couldnt get on hip-hop stations in most cities…because he’s white! Being white helped him sell records and win awards which mean nothing to a MC. Macklemore don’t know nothing about that shit cause he didn’t go thru it. He went thru pop/college radio.
Eminem is well aware of his white priviledge and cultural appropriation.
No I’m not the first king of controversy
I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley
To do black music so selfishly
And used it to get myself wealthy
(Hey!!) There’s a concept that works
Twenty million other white rappers emerge
But no matter how many fish in the sea
It’ll be so empty without me
Nah bro..white privilege yes,appropriation no…you can’t appropriate culture you come from. It don’t matter what color you are, you grow up in Japan, Japanese culture is your culture no? How is this any different?
White People killed hip hop
Gangster rap had nothing to do with it. All white people.
Macklemore needs to lock himself away his album flopped arrogant prick
I like this dude ..
OK, guy’s I’m feeling slightly agitated and more than a little pissed off NOW!!! I put an offer out to you dumb naggers an offer of some fine white booty …. What do I get in response abuse and ignorance …Yes I’m older than the average HHDX reader but with older AGE comes greater experience (wink) … If any of you stuck in the closet naggers are looking for some STICKY fun then reply below . PS (Matt) that doesn’t include your stanky ass …There are something’s I refuse to do weirdo
Tired of these SJW and their stupidity. They make the world more racist. Whoever started this “appropriating black culture” stuff is a racist asshole to the fullest. Watch Eminem come back and hit him hard. White Privilege my ass, the rap game is 99.5% black.
This is what pu$$y ass crakkas do when they want to get attention talk shit
The propaganda is strong in this one.
It’s actually as much a Puerto Rican-American artform as it is black, but yes, I get it. Just needed to be said
He’s not wrong and Eminem is well aware of this remember White America, and that’s why he was able to make songs like Mosh, We as Americans and get away with it.
He is the white version of Stacey Dash he is a white co on sellout……..
lmao thats perfect
Ain’t on em’s dick but without em and his “white priveledge” this lgbt friendly fuck would still be spittin in gay bars
Nigga you can say nigga on here but not f*g? tfoh
Keep talking macklemore it will just fire em up even more for his next single or album.
hey macklemore. there isnt ONE person in this america who doesnt borrow something from another culture. whether that be sports, technology, clothing, dances, musical forms.. and ps dont EVER speak on eminem again. he came from places you could never think of surviving lol if he became a heroine addict in the burbs hed be a straight crack bum in the hood
white rap like Vanilla ice and many more before vanilla ice and still more to come,this is music just because its a black art form it dont make it its only for white people. you see all the inbreeds in the USA feel that way because they think the around the World means going Canada and Mexico and LA and NY lol bitch music is music white black asian alien what ever! you people stuck in small ball. in history back and way back music started in Africa,and then sumarians gave us today all the music of today.
short story long…..music for everybody!
NO SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT BULLSHIT AND MAKE GOOD MUSIC BECOUSE HIP HOP/RAP AND RNB SUCKS!
i miss the music of the 80’s and 90’s and some of 00’s too,but today…..with bang boom buga buga and wupty wup… no quality
hahaha nah brah, Eminem earned his way damn his color that wigga can fooking spit better then most rappers after LL , Rakim , KRS era .. lol yes there is some truth to his complexion helping him far as fan base, but his skills are like no other
Macklemore the kind of dude that keep a journal of every compliment he’s ever received off a black person… Wasteman
LMAO like ‘march 6 2016 a black guy told me my leather jacket was nice *note to self buy a brown matchign leather jacket now (gonna killlll em)”
I enjoy my girlfrend’s bull semen, but he said that Macklemore be wack. What do?
Macklemore please keep your mouth shut, if you don’t have anything to say. You think these things you say, will not make your album flop? Like if you say something, what should really be liked by racist black people, you really think they’re down with you? Gtfo
Im black… im not racist… but we’re down with him….. you bigot
This guy needs to fuck off and die, he’s a joke
lol This site has way too many white people. Look at all the crying below me.
Hey Macklemore,
Eminem came from dirt and was a bum in a poor community, you probably dont know what thats like huh? Being white where he came from is like being the only black man in an all white community so think about what he had to go through being a white man in a black community. He discovered his talent/God given gift and went full speed ahead. Some people discover there gifts and talents but do shit with them. He went up against all black men/women doing what he did and he needed balls in order to do so. Just think how much be probably got made fun of but did that stop him? Obviously not! Unfortunately racism does exists and people like you are the ones who keep racism alive. Black/White does not matter,we are all one and the same.
Fact# macklemore acting like every white person has it like him llol whites in black neighborhoods get it so much worse than any black does in white neighborhood so please dont ccompare us bitch
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White privilege? What he went through was racial discrimination and abuse, and you know what, he couldn’t even complain BECAUSE he was white. He actually got the business end of this shitstorm called racism.
Right. Check the record sales. He literally profited from his whiteness…
right, after he went thru a shit storm of racism and biogitry lmao.. i can name many black ppl who sold just as much as eminem. bc like eminem they deserved it
‘appropriating a Black art form.’
Is that a crime? report or sue him
Man, you american negr oes really want to take over by any means, hahah. The new je ws.
Never liked Eminem but Macklemores an amateur in comparison.
dude is a cornball and needs to keep Legends names out of his mouth
lol @ bringing em into your conversation you garbage ass wannabe rapper.
Why the Fuck did my comment get deleted??????????
Macklemore is a dumb fuck. Eminem benefited from being a dope emcee. He succeeded because of his skill and talent. Hip-Hop was meant to unite not divide. No art form is race specific. What difference does it make. If someone wants to express themselves a certain way they should be able to. If they are good enough people will recognize and buy into it.
White privilege… I swear Maclemore’s never had a real problem in his life.
macklemore wasnt saying eminem was a shit rapper he was saying he became even more famous than he should have been because he was white. even eminem himself said this once in a song ‘Let’s do the math If I was black I woulda sold half’
these journalists r tryin to stir shit up.