On Friday night, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis performed a secret show in their hometown of Seattle to honor a new exhibit at the city's EMP Museum. This would have been completely unremarkable had Macklelmore not
Macklemore isn't a stranger to bizarre outfits, but he may have taken it to a new level, going so far as dressing up like a "literal Nazi propaganda," as Gawker described it. The rapper and his right hand man, Ryan Lewis, performed at a secret show in
Macklemore has come under fire — and hey, it's not for something he rapped this time — after a recent performance that saw him don a costume while rapping breakthrough single "Thrift Shop."
For a guy who makes such innocuous music, Macklemore must be the most oddly polarizing figure in music today. Imagine if Hootie and the Blowfish sparked a hundred thinkpieces on racial appropriation, and you might get a sense of just where Mack
Though Macklemore is held up by many as a paragon of progressivism—think back to his celebrated Grammys performance in which dozens of gay couples were married, or him receiving a MTV Video Music Award for "Best Video With a Social