I'm not familiar with the guy who sang the hook for Gangster's Paradise. I'm just pointing out the factual inaccuracies in this op-ed, which undermines the author's credibility. If he doesn't actually know the context in which the music was written, his whole portrayal of Macklemore as a capitalist taking advantage of…

He got it backwards. Mary Lambert helped develop the hook for Same Love. Then she took it and used it to make her own song based off of it. Macklemore didn't base Same Love off of her song. She based her song off of Same Love.