1y ago

Macklemore Attacks Joe Biden On Pro-Palestine Song "Hind's Hall"

www.hotnewhiphop.com

He hasn't released on streaming yet or YouTube only insta and Twitter. Once it's up on streaming he said all proceeds will go to The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

Full song: https://x.com/macklemore/status/1787616471738368099

Full song: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6o4830yMvE/

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This seems like a promo post...
- Welp...
  
  Man, we could really use some new Rage Against the Machine now.
- I thought so too until I saw it
  
  Once it’s up on streaming he said all proceeds will go to The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
NGL I haven't heard about him in years since Thrift Shop.
Not sure who his target audience is.
- He started touring again, has some bangers. I saw him in Minneapolis probably 6 months ago, and it reminded me of how much love he puts into his work.
  Most genuine artist of my generation, much love to him.
- Same Love is one or the best songs of all time. That's the main one I remember.
- Not sure who his target audience is.
  Seems pretty obvious. Its in the title of the song.
- I liked Otherside (the Ryan Lewis remix version) back in the day. Vipassana (remixed version) and Wings were also pretty good. A lot of his stuff is a bit cheesy. I think this track is ok (seems a bit rushed out and flawed). I disagree with the strategy of not voting for Biden in the presidential election though. I think he's a sincere dude that just likes making tracks about his political beliefs, and possibly to "educate" his listeners with some songs.
- The song is fire though.
  
  Yeah that shit is actual fire. Even played on the Drake dis track.
- Are people really ignoring everything else the guy said just because he said he wouldn't vote for Biden? That's fuckin wild; I can't imagine being so closed-minded
  Edit: just saw this badass clip on insta: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6r_dZvPUCX/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
I don't think I realized just how siloed lemmy.world was until I saw the comments here vs the reception on IG and my other platforms.
Y'all have a wildly different flavor.
True unpopular opinion: this song is absolute fire and Macklemore is one of the most genuine and loving artists of my generation.
- It's honestly depressing. This is very easily the most right-wing/centrist social media site I use. I love the format of reddit, but hate the redditors. I thought Lemmy would be better but it's not. And it's not just that people disagree, they call everyone who disagrees a bot/troll/shill etc, and they freak out if you use swear words like.... it's the worst of tone-policing and performative liberalism all in one place.
  I kinda want to start a ShitLemmySays lol, that was easily the best part of Reddit when they were active.
  
  I want to believe it's partially to do with the election coming up in the US, but the early infighting cut pretty deep, I don't know that the political toxicity will ever completely go away.
  
  Well keep in mind that a lot of Lemmy users (Lemmings? Lemmites? Lemmitors?) are from Reddit now. They are slightly more anticapitalist and anti-corporation, but otherwise, a lot of us are basically Redditors who took over this similar social media site.
  
  Lemmy is right wing/centrist? Lol in what world.
  Lemmy is by far the most tankie social media site.
- .
  
  If trump wins, there will be no more Palestinians. Not in the Gaza strip at least. Israel will be free to take over all disputed territories and they will. Bibi is doing everything he can to make sure trump wins.
  
  Inb4 "Macklemore Russian Bot"
  
  It rubs the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again.
- I keep saying it's becoming an echo chamber like Reddit became but they don't want to hear it.
  
  Honestly, the size of lemmy.world kinda negates the benefits of federated social media. Instances are supposed to be small so as to be more manageable to moderate, so that you don't have to defederate with every instance with a slightly different background.
  The defederation campaigns from about 8 months ago ended up narrowing the spectrum of users and content along a pretty specific political line, and that means that certain political topics get a pretty drastic misrepresentation of opinions. Lemmy.world in some ways became defined by those disagreements, and so any time a topic approaches that line you get a crowd of people trying to enforce the distinction.
  Other instances (even the ones lemmy.world ended up defederating with over political disagreements) have far more varied opinions on the exact topics that .world seems really uncomfortable with.
This seems sussy. Half this person's posts are slams on Biden and there are comments like this song is "fire".
It is in fact not fire. It's edgy but the composition is lacking soul. It's just a convoluted, non provoking edge piece. I don't find it thought provoking or relatable. It's just a bunch of political references thrown together.
- Just your opinion. I thought it was a great summary and relevant message with the recent protests, plus the very public message that he's not voting for Biden over this. If anything I'd call it a bit cheesy, but definitely not edgy. But Macklemore is a little cheesy so it works.
  
  Not voting for Biden when the only other viable option is a fascist seems a bit like edge lord bullshit to me, but idk, maybe I'm out of touch with slang
- I wonder if my first sentence provided more insight?
Track is 🔥.
I think it is a travesty our two party system has left voters with this the traumatic decision of supporting genocide or assisting a rise of authoritarianism. That is beyond fucked up. This is the quintessential Hobson's Choice. It's okay if people stay out of this vote, imo. It's not 2016. There are other world issues besides american freedom. And people are not bad people for being unable to support either side. No one is winning come November, no matter what. We're deciding who suffers.
This is not what society was for. We did not invent agriculture and schools and crawl out of the hellish nomadic life of our animalistic ancestors for THIS. This is all bad. What do we do???
I'm going to vote Biden. Lesser of two evils and all. NOT voting for either isn't going to make me feel like i sidestepped any responsibility for travesties. But i can completely understand wanting to obtstain this time around.
- More like the decision of supporting genocide or supporting genocide and also an authoritarian regime led by morons.
- No one is winning, but staying out of the election means you're ok risking the life of every woman, every trans person, every immigrant, and every person of color in the US. If Trump gets in, anyone who isn't a white, cishet, Christian man is at risk of violence or death.
  I will be holding my nose to vote, I fucking hate Biden, but he's the only realistic chance we have at stopping homegrown genocide. If Trump gets in, I'm immediately looking for a way out before the gestapo can get to me.
  That said, if we survive this election, we have to strategically topple the shit system that caused this scenario
  
  Voting biden doesn't guarantee avoiding those things either, trump may still win. What it does guarantee if biden wins though is more financial aid for Israel. Just because someone refuses to pull the train lever and switch tracks to run over the person tied on the other tracks does not mean they don't care about either persons lives. It's an unfair request. I understand that you are personally closer to what's happening in America, but I hope you can open your mind enough to see that there are other lives on the line as well and that yours isn't any more important than theirs.
- I'm with you like 80%.
  I can't, with a straight face, say, it's okay if people stay out, but I can say I completely understand why they would.
  I can't imagine hard it must be for uninformed people to figure out what's true at this point. I was able to do it, imo, during the early days of youtube when there wasn't nearly as much misinformation, or straight-up fascist propaganda like there is nowadays, flowing freely. Now, I legit don't think I could do it starting at 18 with the clear understanding that I was being lied to and misinformed by supposed experts - really just pundits on corporate media networks.
Track is 🔥
I think you got the wrong Instagram link OP.
- Fixed it. Thanks
  
  LOL, this comment got, at present, 11 people very angry. Do they think they're tanking your karma or something?
He got the song from the thrift shop. It was $0.99.
Doesn't look like its up on YT yet.
Macklemore lmao
Who?
"and fuck no, I'm not voting for him in the fall" 👊

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