Blogpost 7: Macklemore : Same love

Ben Hagerty known for his stage name Macklemore, a white rapper from Seattle who actually raps about something that means something. Not like all the other 'rappers' who think that sex, drugs, and money will really have people respect them. Macklemore often collabs with Ryan Lewis and is generally a well known mc in the West. I've known macklemore for song wings, wings is a song about a kid that is playing basketball and wearing jordan shoes, i liked the song because i loved playing basketball. I liked listening to macklemore because his song is not full of nonsense and his song is pertaining to something.

In an article entitled Macklemore and Ryan Lewis New Song Same Love Takes Homophobia Out of Hip Hop by Sarah Swong same love is a song that he wanted to make a long time ago but he didn't know exactly how to address this issue. He said that he wanted to right a song about gay rights and homophobia within the hiphop community in the world. Macklemore's uncle is gay, he said the flagrant use of gay as a derogative term in the hiphop community. Musicians believed that it's a matter of time that like faggot, gay as a lyric. It takes a couple of time but eventually that type of vocabulary would be eliminated just like the song same love did. While more and more pro gay artists are coming out, same love is the first hiphop song that has rapped positively about homosexuality. Ellen Degeneres is a fan that is saying there are no other rappers have stand for marriage equality like they have.

According the second article entitled Homophobia by Anti Defamation League they say that homophobia is a discrimination to homosexuals in many forms. They experience that they are superior to homosexuals, as for macklemore and ryan lewis they wanted to stop this discrimination and vocabulary to homosexuals, for this to stop they released a song about gay's and lesbian's entitled Same love.

In conclusion macklemore just wants this type of discrimination to stop that we should accept the fact is we should accept them for what they are, because they are that way. And being a homosexual doesn't mean that your a bad person it's just a descision a person choose.