MACKLECORN

I usually pay zero attention to the Grammys because it's broadcast way past my bedtime (motherfuckas nevr loved us). Although this year I happened to be awake at 1am because I opened a bag of popcorn LIKE A FOOL and had to eat it in the moment or else it would go stale. You didn't miss anything tbh, except for Pharrell dressing like he's a tenenbaum searching for yogi bear, Taylor Swift's team getting prematurely hype for the best record award and Macklemore's winning four grammys: best new artist, best rap album, best rap performance and best rap song (how a middleclass hetero male writing two anthems for poor and homosexual people respectively won anything is sort of beyond me).

As an apology for his success was deeply overdue for robbing Kendrick Lamar of many an award, he texted K-drickle an apology which he tweeted and instagrammed (via white guilt). It was chill but full of empty words and lacking any redeeming emojis:

My friend you didn't contest your wins on stage because you wanted those awards - just speak the truth I have no time for bumfluff. This is the issue - I know he's only one man but if he can become the patron saint of rap-listening-white-homosexuals then surely he could've braved up and made one point about how backward the grammy wins were WHEN HE WAS AT THE PODIUM COLLECTING HIS BABY GRAMOPHONES. 

This man is straight up snatching stuff from people (man's album called the heist lmao). I don't want to turn this into a race issue but it sort of is when you're winning the rap game because of your white privilege, and aren't even making movements to address this despite being aware (shown by the fact that he apologised). I'm not saying black people should just BE HANDED any rap/hip-hop award but it would help if they won when their music is actually better - "the myth of American progress cannot go forward without black folks occupying the space of the morally and politically retrograde" (via Brittney Cooper aka truth dealer). Macklecorn even gets praised higher for what he's done for gay awareness in rap with his song Same Love than Frank Ocean will ever get for actually being bisexual in the r&b scene. I get that Macklemore can reach a wider audience with the universal message of free love but when a straight man is leading the gay agenda then I think it can be seen as issue.This man should be wildly unimportant to our lives and his music is irrelevant and not as progressive as middle class white dominated publications like to make him out to be. 

Idk who I should be mad at though, the man himself or the peeps that gave him the awards. Apparently the Grammy Committee's wild back-pedalling extends to saying they almost excluded Macklemore and Ryan Lewis from the rap category all together. A mysterious source from the Grammys claimed this was because they "found more fans in pop than rap," but after put to a vote, he was kept in by a "landslide decision." So basically zero progression there but thanks 4 the story. 

Is it Macklemore's fault or the Grammy committee's OR WHITE AMERICA'S? Idk all I know is man looks like cultural-appropriation-era miley cyrus. It isn't even about Macklemore being untalented because idek if he is or not, he got nominated so he must be decent enough? It's just that there were clearly BETTER artists up for nomination that lost out to him (I call CONSIPIRACY, imma put it out there). Furthermore, man didn't contest it when it mattered the most - during the live award ceremony - so his apology is v. weak imo. We need Mackle-less (lmao) self aware white people actually robbing more deserving people of their herald whilst sitting docile like they can't do anything with their centuries worth of privilege they collect like stamps. Even though we shouldn't pay attention to the lame Grammy committee's decisions who have now reduced the worth of their shiny and artisan awards, it's unfortunately still relevant because they speak 2 the mainstrm. This is so problematic imma need to lie down and count to ten.