What does eminem think of macklemore

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When Macklemore does rap in other songs it's terrible and sounds like when we used to try to battle each other in grade 9. Yes the song is good yes it is relevant but no he is not a good rapper and should not be compared to anyone in the industry. I'm guessing when Eminem's new cd comes out he will give us a taste of what real hiphop sounds like again. No one can ever compare to Eminem's flow. I gotta admit I love Macklemore but I have been an Eminem fan since as long as i can remember.

They both have songs that come from the heart but Eminem just has that "it" factor. He has the most heart-felt songs I have ever heard. And Macklemore and Eminem have such different sounds and styles it's impossible to compare them. Nice try people who say yes. But just NO. Eminem is a different kind of artist. He is more emotional and off the deep end with his lyrics. Whereas, Macklemore vocalizes his opinions and uses a unique style to portray his message.

Both are talented in their own ways and perform with high level talent. They are both great figure heads for the Hip-hop industry, but still have different meanings and roles in the "game".

He doesn't rap like eminem and he just wants to be another white rapper but its more than tht I don't like macula more he stupid and a copy and he sucks go Marshall mathers to me macula more raps like vanilla ice but in modern times and he doesn't even have a past to why he's rapping like eminem malamute just raps cause its cool boo maclamore goo eminem. Eminem has been around longer which means he knows the game better and not to mention that Eminem is hailed as one of the best rappers of all time in which that list includes people Tupac and Biggie.

Plus Eminem has superior flow and has a ridiculous rhyming ability. Not to mention he did it with very little support if any at all. Yes, the Mack is a very good rapper FYI I'm equally a fan if both but you just can't compare the two.

Right away you can tell each have something special about them, but its all about what you like, and the experiences you have with music. Totally different and nearly comparable except the fact they're white rappers in a predominantly black genre Although they are both great at what they do it seems as if they are all about completely things.

Both great though. I dont think Macklemore is gonna be the next Eminem, I don't think his next album will be as good as The Heist, he's not as lyrical as Eminem, oftentimes he doesn't even rhyme, he doesn't have anything that's even close to a flow, so I think he can never surpass Eminem. In what way are the rap styles similar? Eminem hasn't had anything on the top charts since "Not Afraid" because he hasn't released anything by himself since "Not Afraid" Also you are forgetting the songs he has featured in which are top chart hits like "I Need a Doctor," "Fast Lane," "Lighters.

I will guarantee it will be number 1 for awhile. Eminem was also the top music artist of the 's and Macklemore only has released a few number 1 songs in 1 year not 10 years, so Of course he's making good song's now but more commercial. He can be ot top of the charts for a while but he's not the same category Eminem is a legend not just because of his songs, it's because of himself! Although I enjoy Macklemore's job a lot and definately I like him!

By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Google Search. Post Your Opinion. Create New Poll. Sign In Sign Up. The joke is about how Motown used to spend the 60s selling black artists to white people. His hair is long and red now. He looks like he should be playing bass in a metal band. It was all about getting high and watching cartoons.

No one listened to it. Saw him in at some festival and a drunk white woman kept yelling at him to play the college song. He never did. On the day after the Grammy awards, Macklemore started his redemption tour, attempting to show the world how sorry he was for winning the best rap album Grammy for The Heist.

An album that was certainly not the best up for the award, but also certainly not the worst. That he beat out the singular Good Kid, M. D City , released by Kendrick Lamar , was his biggest burden. Macklemore is the Great White Artist of Burdens. When he is, at all times, reflecting on the overwhelming feeling of his whiteness and analysing each corner of guilt that it causes him.

I am sure that there is a place for this, the revelling in guilt for what is afforded to you due to race. It is a hard market for a white rapper who seems deeply invested and interested in anti-racist work.

A black fanbase will undoubtedly show up for the party and leave for the preaching, and a white fanbase will endure the preaching for as long as they can in order to get to the party. It was quirky and odd, but also insightful and honest. It got weighed down a bit by the well-meaning but painfully clumsy marriage equality anthem Same Love being its biggest hit, but it offered enough in the way of fun to offset failures in nuance.

Macklemore is a more than adequate rapper, his delivery rarely rising above a soothing rasp. He stacks rhymes in a way that would imagine him in the lineage of rappers who truly listened to rap during its 90s heyday. The Heist was the fully realised version of all the music before it, the mixtapes that fell short due to unfocused narratives and a lack of fully formed production. On The Heist, the fun served as a complement to the heaviness, which he often times snuck in.

Thrift Shop, as a flawed but enjoyable anti-capitalist ode for affordable clothes shopping. White Walls is an anthem for a Pacific Northwest late-night ride-out. People decided he was important. White people, almost all straight, declared him a beacon of light, an indication of where rap could be going. For a few months, the most talked about rapper in the world was white again, and unlike when this had happened in the past, the white rapper met this with conflict.

People in queer communities felt justified frustration at him being the face of their narratives. He was, briefly, a white rapper with only an overwhelmingly white audience in love with him. It seemed unheard of, not seen since Vanilla Ice. On the cover of The Source magazine at the end of , he sneered in a brown blazer and a brown suede hat.

In a corner store, I stared at the cover and remembered, vaguely, the white kids in my high school who dreamed of this day. A white rapper, once again gracing the cover of a rap magazine. All backlash creates an adjustment, and then new backlash.

Sometime in between and , Macklemore decided that since he had the attention of white people, he was going to start telling them about themselves. It was an exhausting undertaking, an exercise that almost certainly would play out better in a living room than on an album. The first song, Light Tunnels, is another seven-minute apology for winning a Grammy.

Growing Up is an awkward open letter to his new child. The album shifts rapidly from confrontational to apologetic, with Macklemore taking aim at his white fans, and then turning to the imagined black fans to apologise for his whiteness. From the standpoint of someone who already understands racism, the album, anchored by the nearly nine-minute White Privilege II is a task.

You can, in this way, make an argument about Macklemore being the greatest mainstream white rapper of all time, because he was the one most unafraid to sever himself from the comfort of the fame he gained making black art. If you can both win over white audiences and trick the black ones for long enough, the formula works.

The white rapper joke began when Vanilla Ice was corny enough to be hated but not too corny to sell records, and it has evolved to rest at the feet of Macklemore. It has played out in every genre since the inception of genre, or since the first song was pulled by white hands from wherever a black person sang it into the air. No one knows what to make of the guilt. Some rap fans would prefer that Macklemore never rap again. Some would prefer that he rap only directly to white people about whiteness, but that seems to make him less of a rapper and more of a pastor with a thinning audience.

But the joke is this: every white rapper is the whole of the white rappers that came before them, because when there are so few of you, it becomes easy to avoid falling into the same patterns.