By Vishal Manglani – Staff Reporter

Macklemore has been on the hip hop charts for a number of years now. What started as a career soon became a passion and has led to his most recent song “White Privilege”

Macklemore’s first success came in his song “Thrift Shop.” This song was rather senseless, but his later songs became more and more meaningful. Songs such as “Same Love” as well as his most recent song convey a revolutionary and moving message.

Macklemore’s first songs were your average rap songs with no direct meaning to the public whatsoever. Macklemore’s new songs convey messages about gay marriage, love, culture, and with his most recent song, black rights. These messages always move people and create a wave of cultural reformation.

Macklemore’s “White Privilege” is an intimidating eight minutes long. However, each second of the song is incredibly enticing and meaningful. His main message in the song is how we cannot say we have justice or peace while there are still people being killed. Along with this, he targets Elvis, Iggy Azalea, and Miley Cyrus for stealing and ruining black culture, while at the same time, not having any incentive to save black lives.

In the song, Macklemore prides himself for his mature and meaningful rapping. He includes feedback from parents about how his music isn’t senseless like other rappers who sing about drugs and women. He follows this with the statement that Society is too easily offended, and cares more about being “called racist” rather than “racism.” He prides himself for trying to help save black lives. He concludes saying how white supremacy is nothing but the origin of our country. It does not define society or culture.

“White Privilege” is not only revolutionary because of it’s groundbreaking message. He uses a very modest and dramatic rhythm to stress the importance of his message and the society’s crisis. For example, he keeps the music very contained and humble as he discusses the importance of saving black lives.

Along with this, Macklemore’s tone was very serious throughout the song. This helped the reader to hear him and his message how it was intended to be heard: serious and clear. His voice is not a rapping tone; it is more similar to a rhythmic lecture.

We should expect to see more moving songs from Macklemore. His songs are becoming increasingly significant and appealing to the public.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars