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notwiththoseshoesonboi:

Why Macklemore needs to STOP.

Social Justice bloggers are honestly the most moronic “activists" I’ve ever seen. The only group of people who would hate someone for their privilege…while said person is actively trying to use that privileged position to fight for and raise awareness about the same movement they’re blogging for.

The problem is social justice bloggers like this are focusing on the underground rather than the mainstream. Yes there are plenty of queer artists out there. But none that have reached the level of acclaim that Macklemore hit with Thrift Shop. This put him in a position to speak out on these issues and so he did. He’s not throwing mainstream rap and hip-hop under the bus because they were invented by black people. He’s throwing mainstream rap and hip-hop under the bus because things like this:



DMX - Where The Hood At

I show no love, to homo thugs.

Empty out, reloaded and throw more slugs.

How you gonna explain fuckin a man?

Even if we squashed the beef, I ain’t touchin ya hand.

Is the lead single for a DMX album. It charted. Was on the radio. Has a music video. A song with a verse about killing gay men is a rap/hip-hop classic.

Mainstream is what a genre is judged upon because that’s what everyone is listening to. I love that someone out there is putting together a LGBTQ positive song in his basement because he needs to be heard. But unfortunately the majority of people out there simply won’t care. Macklemore had a unique chance to get a message like this out to an audience that isn’t as receptive to it and has been told the opposite by the genre for decades.

Getting mad at Macklemore for not name dropping every single queer rapper in the game who has yet to breakout or because he’s a heterosexual white male is completely counter to the movement you’re trying to fight for. You are the ones that need to check themselves when you’re hating on people for supporting you just because they don’t look like you.