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Macklemore

(1983) Rapper United States

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Macklemore is a rapper from the United States, best known for Gemini.

Quick Facts About Macklemore

Born: June 19, 1983
Nationality: United States
Profession: Rapper
Notable works: Gemini

About Macklemore

Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore, is an American rapper. A native of Seattle, Washington, he started his career in 2000 as an independent artist releasing: Open Your Eyes (2000), The Language of My World (2005), and The Unplanned Mixtape (2009). He rose to international success collaborating with producer Ryan Lewis as the duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (2009–2016).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

MTV Video Music Award for Best Hip-Hop Video MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography Grammy Award for Best Rap Song Grammy Award for Best New Artist MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Social Message

Quotes by Macklemore

Don't forget where you come from Don't die holding on to your words Cause you know you got a whole world to…

Causes

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The spirits there to knock you down.But if you make that the end, you'll never know the beauty of being able to…

Beauty

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I got my city right behind me, if I fall, they got me. Learn from that failure gain humility and then we…

Failure

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I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

Controlled

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They be like 'Oh that Gucci, thats hella tight.' Im like 'Yo, thats fifty dollars for a t-shirt.' Limited edition, lets do…

Limited edition

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Live tonight, cuz you can't take it with ya.

Cuz

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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

Given

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This moon man right here stands for a lot more. This is the most important record out of all of them. Gay…

Gay

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Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky I know your fed up but you must try to survive Each…

Eye

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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is commiting that women look better in their makeup

Tricks

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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes…

American

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It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's…

Addiction

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Bullying is a national epidemic.

Bullying

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We are what we wear, we wear what we are

Funny

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I've never been a religious person. I've been a spiritual person since I was about 15, 16, when I was first introduced…

Connections

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Drug culture is extremely prevalent and probably most people know somebody whose life has been affected by drugs, if it's not their…

Affected

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And know that every struggle in life is there to teach you a lesson It's times like this that make you

Knows

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Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity…

Art

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If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me. Have you read the YouTube comments lately? ‘Man, that’s gay’ gets dropped…

Comment

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Here we go back, this is the moment Tonight is the night, well fight till its over So we put our hands…

Song lyrics

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'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

Change

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I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is…

Art

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Little bit of humble, little bit of cautious.

Humility

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Probably should've washed this, smells like R. Kelly sheets. Pissssss...But shit, it was 99 cents!

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Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of…

Basketball

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Macklemore by topic

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