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Originally Posted by djchameleon
How did Macklemore NOT have the most popular singles during last year? Thrift Shop, Same Love, Can't Hold Us.
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I never heard any of the songs on the radio.
I didn't even know who Macklemore was for that matter before the Grammys.
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Originally Posted by djchameleon
Name all of Kendrick's singles that were so popping last year that they took over mainstream radio. Only Swimming Pools made a dent that's about it.
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Poetic Justice, Money Tree's and he was a feature on many other popular songs.
He was the number one rapper on the radio for the majority.
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Originally Posted by djchameleon
His album wasn't all that to you but he covered more social issues than Kendrick did and that propelled him to having the rap album that people who don't listen to rap gobbled up because of it. The same people that think that all rap is misogynistic and wanted to hear something different than current radio rap.
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I don't think its that deep hun. I think they gave it to him because he was white. Once again patting the white man on the back for doing "black music''
He could have been blue, purple, black etc his album was not better than Kendrick and it wasn't as popular.
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Originally Posted by djchameleon
Just because you don't know about him doesn't mean he wasn't hot last year.
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There are a TON of people that were not aware of him before the Grammy's which is understandable because he is not an mainstream artist which is why I baffled that you think his singles were more popular than Kendrick's. Kendrick was EVERYWHERE last year.
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Originally Posted by djchameleon
You decided to ignore him.
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lol
I honestly didn't even know he existed before the Grammy's
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Maybe because he's a white rapper and you just want to discredit his hustle but he's been in the Seattle underground scene for years rapping. He has paid his dues and pushed his independent album out and was able to garner mainstream attention. The song "Can't Hold Us" is an older song of his and he ended up putting it on The Heist.
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Thats what I'm saying. He is not a mainstream artist so I don't know why you think he was more popular than Kendrick who was and is backed by a mainstream label. He was heavily saturating the Rap/Hip Hop stations. If it wasn't Jay Z, it was a Kendrick song on those stations constantly.
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He had a big year as a featured artist sure and the critics were sucking his dick over his album but it wasn't the next coming of Jesus. The critics praised Macklemore's album as well.
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I think Kendrick's album is overrated but it is still better than Macklemore. Kendrick deserved best new artist. I find him to be overall more talented than Macklemore...even Macklemore knows it
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Your own personal opinion. Did you even listen to The Heist?
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Yea and his wack.... thats what I am saying, where did they find him? LOL
I tell you the Grammy's are funny. They will dig up a underground white wack rapper before they do a black underground rapper?
NO WAY he deserved that over Kendrick