And like clockwork, they reached for a party jam, their latest single, “Downtown,” to lighten the mood. It was one of the heavier moments of the night. “The next time that I saw him was in the hand of the pallbearer.” “I said ‘peace’ at 5:30,” he rapped in one particularly chilling turn of phrase. That emotional highlight was followed by two cautionary tales about drug use – “Otherside” (on which those drugs will “leave you broke, depressed and emotionally vacant”) and “Kevin,” a powerful new song paying tribute to a friend who overdosed on prescription meds. Although he has three gospel singers on the road with him, they piped in Mary Lambert’s vocal from the record and ended the song with a stunning projection of a stained-glass window bathing the venue in light. The mood grew dark again for “Wing$,” a cautionary tale about the high cost of consumerism on which the three large screens at the back of the stage were bathed in blood-red light as he rapped about a friend’s brother who got murdered for his Nikes.Īfter ending that song with a somber delivery of the line “And now I see it’s just another pair of shoes,” he set up “Same Love,” a gospel-flavored plea for legalizing same-sex marriage, with a heartfelt speech about the kind of world he wants his daughter to grow up in. Then, it was back to the party vibe for the celebratory “White Walls” and “Crew Cuts,” on which they were joined by their opening rapper Xperience. “My old man, he kicked me out,” the song begins, “when I told him that I lived this way.” That song, the soulful “Growing Up (Sloane’s Song)” was followed by a Fences track that Macklemore & Lewis guested on about the kind of dad he clearly wouldn’t want to be. It was a blast, complete with goofy ad-libbed lines about how your grandma’s a freak.Īmong the cooler things about the concert was the way the mood could ricochet from Macklemore rapping “Your grandma’s a freak” to him sharing a heartfelt song he’d written after finding out that he was to become a father, wondering “If I was to give advice to my unborn child, what would I say.” January concert guide: Macklemore, Ciara, Band PerryĪnd with that, the band kicked into “Thrift Shop,” the 10-times-platinum smash that topped the Billboard Hot 100 on its way to picking up Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song at the Grammys, Macklemore rocking a coon-skin cap as streamers rained down from the ceiling. “Because when they give away their s-t, I wear it.” “And I love old people,” he said, with a grin. Scpt.parentNode.“I love cacti, which is the plural name for cactus,” he told us, adding that he’d been corrected for calling them cactuses. Var scpt = document.getElementsByTagName('script') Var elem = document.createElement('script') Įlem.src = ( = "https:" ? " : " + "./quant.js" You're only young once, my love, one, this is your chanceĭiv_id: "cf_async_" + Math.floor((Math.random() * 999999999)),ĭocument.write('') var c=function())(document, window, "yandex_metrika_callbacks") Go to festivals, camp, fall in love and dance Get a sled, thrash the hill with your friends till it melts If it snows, go outside, build a jump, get some help Watch the sun set with best friends from a rooftop
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