![]() ![]() “Claiming this City” is just as socially aware, with its primary message focusing on the socioeconomic differences between Macklemore and his friends in suburban Seattle, and what he and his peers can do to affect change. Macklemore’s love for Seattle is pretty apparent on this album as well, be it in the soulful “City Don’t Sleep” which highlights the homelessness problem of his city. I don’t think they’re as strong as Inhale Deep, but they’re all smaller brushstrokes that make up the larger, self-aware canvas on which Macklemore paints in Language. “Ego,” “My Language,” “B Boy,” and “Contradiction” all explore these themes as well, and are all completely listenable. Macklemore’s reflection toward both himself and the hip-hop industry as a whole is what makes the album so strong. An uplifting song, it focuses on his own self-efficacy in moving his career forward, but it’s a pretty great allegory for anyone looking to be successful. ![]() “Inhale Deep” is another song that really resonates on the album. That upbringing is reflected a great deal on the album, none of which exemplifies the existential struggle he went through more than the the 2 nd track on the album, “White Privilege.” In it, Macklemore fights with the repercussions of appropriating a culture and type of music that originated in a place that “started off in a block that I’ve never been to/to counteract a struggle that I’ve never even been through.” The song is really great for perspective, and gives some really keen insight into the struggle that white rappers go through to stake their claim to a place in the hip-hop industry. The Language of my World is a pretty fantastic detailing of a Macklemore’s ascent in the northwest hip-hop game as an upper-middle class white kid. The Language of my World is Macklemore’s first full length album and features a lot of the parts that make him popular now – clever lyrics and smooth rhyming – while being clearly rooted in independent and intelligent hip-hop. Most hip-hop artists have a pretty extensive back catalogue of music that predated them hitting it big, and Macklemore is no different. But like most artists, “The Heist” is a marketable progression. The duo has had a pretty fantastic past six months. Following that was “Same Love,” a really fantastic hip-hop ballad that has effectively become the anthem of the gay-rights equal marriage movement. It’s no secret that Macklemore and Ryan Lewis blew up in 2012 with the smash hit “Thrift Shop,” a playful hip-hop ditty that set its sights directly on commercialism in the US.
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