Genius Meanings
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Make the Money
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In this song, Macklemore discusses his status in the rap game as an independent artist, and how he can affect the way people see the big labels.
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Ray Dalton) – Can't Hold Us
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[Intro: Macklemore] / Hey, hey, hey / Good to see you / Come on, dude, let's go / Yeah, let's go / Hahaha, alright / Alright, okay / Uh, alright, okay / Alright, okay / [Verse 1
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Wanz) – Thrift Shop
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Backed by a super-funky beat, Macklemore shows how much $20 can do by ditching expensive labels for thrift shop clothing.
Released as a single and on the LP The Heist on August
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Ab-Soul) – Jimmy Iovine
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Jimmy Iovine is a music producer and the chairman of Interscope Records. This song is about how Macklemore was so desperate to get signed to a major record label only to find out
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Wing$
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“Wings” (stylized as “Wing$”) explores the consumerism that Macklemore feels plagues not only the youth but everyone in American Society: The idea that your worth as a person is
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Buffalo Madonna) – Thin Line
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This song chronicles the battle Macklemore and other Hip Hop artists face. The battle is between their relationships with other people and their relationship with the rap game
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Eric Nally, Grandmaster Caz, Grandmaster Melle Mel & Kool Moe Dee) – Downtown
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“Downtown” is the second song released from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s follow-up to 2012’s breakout album The Heist. The track features Eric Nally of Foxy Shazam on vocals, along
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Ben Bridwell) – Starting Over
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On the The Heist’s second to last track, Ben emotionally explains the sobriety he has often talked about working towards, most notably on the duo’s popular track “Otherside”. In
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Chance the Rapper) – Need to Know
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Macklemore once again brings up the issue of oxycodone use in America’s youth. He speaks about the shallow life of drug addiction and chasing status through meaningless purchases.
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Mary Lambert) – Same Love
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The third single from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s debut album The Heist, “Same Love” is a powerful song about marriage equality for same-sex couples, and has played a big part in
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Eighty4 Fly) – Gold
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Macklemore explains how his perfect world would look like. What would he take away, what would he add to this world to make it better.
Note: This album, “The Heist,” went gold at
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Cowboy Boots
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[Intro: Macklemore] / And we drink and get older / And some of us even try to get sober / Now here's to the assholes and the last calls / We're city kids, you get what you ask for
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Ten Thousand Hours
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“Ten Thousand Hours,” the album’s opening song, is largely based on Malcolm Gladwell’s 2008 book Outliers: The Story of Success. In the book, Gladwell puts forward the “10,000-Hour
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Jamila Woods) – White Privilege II
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A follow up to the original “White Privilege” released back in 2005, this song analyzes a variety of racial issues from various perspectives, relying on specific references to the
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Hollis & ScHoolboy Q) – White Walls
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Seattle-based Macklemore and TDE’s California-based ScHoolboy Q give a rundown of their dream vehicles. Macklemore realizes that it’s not entirely economical or currently trendy to
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Allen Stone) – Neon Cathedral
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Macklemore has struggled with alcoholism. (see “Otherside”.) This is another song in which he expresses his struggle with addiction.
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Evan Roman) – A Wake
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User macdaddyj pointed out an interesting play on words in the title of this track, “A Wake”.
Throughout the song, Macklemore emphasizes his spiritual “awakening” after a
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Castle
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Macklemore’s alter ego, Raven Bowie, invites all within earshot to party with him in his “Castle”. This track is yet another classic Macklemore party song.
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. The Teaching) – BomBom
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Ryan Lewis is the producer and instrumentalist for the duo. This track is solely him showing his contribution to the group and his talent.
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. DJ Premier & KRS-One) – Buckshot
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Macklemore has previously gone into his past in graffiti, but he dedicates the entirety of “Buckshot” to his teenage hobby. Appropriately, he collaborates with KRS-One, who was a
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – My Oh My
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In December 2010, he released a tribute song named “My Oh My” for then recently deceased Seattle Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus, which has received extensive coverage in Seattle
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Macklemore & Tones and I – CHANT
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“CHANT” is a celebration of Macklemore’s career and his achievements in music. The song features Australian artist Tones and I, and it is his comeback, anthem-like single after his
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Macklemore (Ft. Collett) – NO BAD DAYS
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[Intro] / No bad days (Yeah) / [Chorus: Collett] / I think that I'm lucky, I don't got it made / Everything I got could fit inside a suitcase, yeah / They could try to make me quit
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Victory Lap
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This song appears on the deluxe edition of The Heist as a bonus track and is Macklemore’s contribution to the 2012 XXL Freshmen Mixtape (on both the album and the mixtape, it is
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Macklemore (Ft. Skylar Grey) – Glorious
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Macklemore feels glorious on his appropriately titled, platinum-certified single featuring Skylar Grey, released June 15, 2017.
Full of renewed confidence, Macklemore expresses a
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Maya Jama & Wanz) – Thrift Shop (Radio 1 Anthems 2012 Mix)
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[Chorus] / I'm gonna pop some tags / Only got twenty dollars in my pocket / Ah ah, I'm huntin', lookin' for a come-up / This is awes-awes-awesome! / [Verse 1] / Walk into the club
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Macklemore – I NEED
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[Intro] / I need two bad bitches and a bag of good weed / Need an eighty-inch screen, that's a big TV / I need Addies to stay up, I need Xannies to get sleep / God, give me drugs
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Tracy Chapman – Mountains o' Things (Official)
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This song covers the idea of greed and consumerism in our modern society, the idea that life is about more than just material goods. This has always been a popular topic within
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Ray Dalton) – Can’t Hold Us (Radio Edit)
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[Chorus: Ray Dalton, Macklemore] / Can we go back? This is the moment / Tonight is the night, we'll fight 'til it's over / So we put our hands up / Like the ceiling can't hold us
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Rucka Rucka Ali – I'm Obama
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Very funny stuff by Rucka Rucka Ali again. A parody of “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
In “I’m Obama”, Rucka imitates the american president Barack Obama.
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Bizzle – Same Love (A Response)
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This is Bizzle’s response to Macklemore’s song “Same Love” from his album The Heist, which sent waves through society and hip-hop as he tackled an important anti-gay issue
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Melanie Martinez – Thrift Shop (Cover)
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[Intro] / Thrift Shop attempt, sorry for the curses I'm human / [Verse 1] / I'm gonna pop some tags / Only got twenty dollars in my pocket / I'm, I'm, I'm hunting, looking for a
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Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox (Ft. Robyn Adele Anderson) – Thrift Shop
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I'm gonna pop some tags / Only got twenty dollars in my pocket / I, I, I'm hunting / Looking for a come up / This is freaking awesome / Walk into the club like, what up? I'm such a
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Black Thought – 9th vs. Thought
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Anthropology is the study of humans, and as the first interlude suggests, it takes two components to make it: the student and the study – someone who studies human behavior, and
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B.o.B (Ft. Asher Roth) – Fuck the Money
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From his mixtape 25th may, this song features Asher Roth and samples ´´River`` from Joni Mitchell.
They vent about fame and record labels fucking them over. Similar to Jimmy
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KIDZ BOP Kids – Thrift Shop
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In this tribute to Professor Macklemore’s autobiographical song regarding his experiences of overcoming peer pressure in times of poverty, a bunch of nameless children expertly
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Pentatonix – Thrift Shop
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What What / What what Yo / What What / What What Yo / [Hook: Avi Kaplan] / I'm gonna pop some tags, only got 20 dollars in my pocket / I'm, I'm, I'm hunting, looking for a comeup
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Madilyn – Thrift Shop
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I'm gonna pop some tags / Only got twenty dollars in my pocket / I - I - I'm hunting, looking for a come-up / This is freaking awesome / I'm gonna pop some tags / Only got twenty
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Kurt Hugo Schneider (Ft. MAX) – Can't Hold Us
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Let's do it / C'mon! / What's up baby? / Na na na na na na na na / Return of the Mac, get up! / What it is, what it does, what it is, what it isn't / Looking for a better way to
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