It’s also a reference to http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…, one of the most famous speeches of solidarity in history. It would have been weird if she didn’t include the Africa part, given that was the point of the question.

It’s a little more than “not exactly what happened.”

Bullshit. Macklemore isn’t famous because he’s white, Macklemore is famous because his producer (Ryan Lewis) is fantastic. I don’t care who you are, if you can’t shake your ass to Thrift Shop, Ceiling Can’t Hold Us, etc. then you might as well be dead.

I think the biggest problem with Macklemore’s sudden rise was that his music was ever considered rap. Sure he raps, but so did Blondie. Thrift Shop and Can’t Hold Us and Same Love were popular in a pop context, in which they are good songs, not in a rap context, in which they are not good. He should have won a bunch…

...become a good rapper who makes good songs, or get out of the way to make space for someone who will.