Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
The Heist
Self-released; 2012
Score (PiMB scale): 3.5 / 5.0
Seattle rap superhero Macklemore and his production partner Ryan Lewis released their debut album last week, The Heist. Read my full album review at Potholes In My Blog, here.
Somehow I missed posting this. At nearly 4.5 million views already, these dudes (and, more importantly, this issue) are going places.
Fresh out of the press box, a video interview featuring Macklemore, Ryan Lewis and Murs at this year’s edition of Rock The Bells. Full album review of Mack and RL’s debut full-length, The Heist, coming soon.
As promised, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis released the video today for the team’s new single, “Thrift Shop” (featuring Wanz). Good nature and humor abound in this clip about finding treasures among trash. Go here to buy the track.
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Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ grass-rooted fans are eager for the release of October’s The Heist (and accompany massive world tour — no, really, it’s going to be huge). For now though spin through “Thrift Shop” the new light-hearted single about the joys of bargain hunting featuring Wanz.
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with their official entree into the equal marriage rights for all people discussion. Hip-hop would behoove itself by featuring more supportive expression like this.
Career retrospective-type videos come a lot faster in the internet age, don’t they? Not even two LPs deep yet and Mack and RL got one. Would seem a little dubious if shit weren’t so dope…
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I’m about halfway through this new free release from Olympia’s Xperience, but already I can say I digs it. Perhaps not as much as the MC/singer’s previous for-profit offering, William The VIII, which, upon re-listening, has shown itself to be 2010’s most slept-on regional release. The Durden Papers Vol. 1 is (so far) more hyped and party-oriented, mostly due to producer BeanOne’s stripped-down slap. Catch XP on tour with long-time homies Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
In time for Halloween, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis just released the video for “And We Danced” (from 2009’s The Unplanned Mixtape). The cast of this epic clip has single-handedly ensured the financial health of all Seattle-area Value Villages for the next five years. Here’s to hand-me-downs.
New sh-t from the biggest names in Seattle rap, circa 2011. Mack and RL will be doing just this, in fact, on their fall tour which you can find out more about here.
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