It’s pretty dumb to say Macklemore is popular because he is white. Sure that’s some of it, but it’s not most of it. Macklemore is popular because of Thrift Shop. Everyone knows this. He won’t be big in 3 more albums because he hasn’t been able to repeat the success of Thrift Shop at all.

Yeah this is an intensely bad take.

the idea that macklemore could, would or should ‘step aside’ is insane and has no bearing on reality.

Yeah you did. But ‘I was not raped, even though Dave was a real shithead’ wouldn’t have generated as many clicks so here we are

“Or perhaps what they were demanding the right not to be representative, which isn’t necessarily the same thing.”