New single (which will be available on iTunes soon) off Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ upcoming album, The Heist, due out October 9th.
I am the most prolific thrift shopper in the rap game right now. What Bob Barker is to the Price Is Right, I am to used fringe jackets. My collection is worth anywhere between $70 and a $100,000,000 depending on who’s appraising it. I’m gonna be honest, if it’s me… I’m going with a million. Count the zero’s. That’s how many fur jackets I have. Tell PETA my Mink, Fox, Rabbit, Coyote, and Hungarian Raccoon jacket are ALL dragging on the floor. And I don’t mean that in a disrespectful way. I love my animals. But they’re dead. And they’ve been dead for hella. When I wear them, I’m bringing them back to life and introducing them to a whole new generation who wasn’t around when they were out in the woods doing their thing. Those animals have now migrated from some old lady’s closet, to a thrift shop and are now getting their proper shine, up to 40 years later. It’s recycling. And recycling is beautiful, am I right? That’s what this song is about. – Macklemore
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a few yrs ago i got a Mitchell & Ness Cal Ripken Farewell track jacket and an Abdur-Rahim swingman jersey for a total of $6 at a salvation army. thrift shops are the shit
dope record
I must download this ASAP. The intro to the song is sweet
First this guy makes a song about how it’s dumb to collect sneakers and now he’s bragging about his jacket collection? Alright.
The most hipster rap track ever made. And this is beautiful hipster rap. So pumped for Oct. 9.
He never said its wrong or dumb, he simply mentioned commercialism and how it can end up bad
Kinda cheesy how you have to pay for every single
I can’t even explain how dope this shit is xD
@DBS – He never said it was dumb to collect sneakers, if you actually listened to the song he explained his addiction to sneakers.
Gotta co-sign bananclip though. Especially if these new songs are all gonna be on the new album
@who cares – Yeah he explained it and came to the conclusion that “It’s just another pair of shoes.” and now he’s going on about how many fur coats he has, dude has issues is all I’m saying. This track is actually pretty good though.
This is the worst track this guy has put out in some time. I’m sorry.
@DBS – You’re obviously missing the point of both “Wings” and this song. *shrugs*
“And they been dead for hella.”
hahaha i fuckin died
you guys are all stupid. This is a song about recycling and second chances, its a metaphor, yall dont get mack.
this beat is way too dope to be used on a song about thrift stores. even if its some metaphor shit….just sayin
I don’t know how he does it, I mean even my mom and grandma like his music, I think that them as well as I love his songs for the harmony found between the instruments and the rapping
Macklemore murked this. Best rapping I’ve heard him do
Fuck I hate hipster rap
Sense of humor and a conscience .. There are some things worth taking seriously and some things you should just be able to dig … Check it out his music does both – its real
I dont really fuck with his music, but the narrative for this song was hilarious, so I’ll give it a shot.
He actually debuted this song at lollapalooza a few weeks back. He put on the best show of the hip hop acts. Drew the best (not the biggest but the least amount of drunk high school suburban kids trying to act like they were down or from the hood) crowd too.
First off “wings” is about nike and what it was like to want to have the hottest thing out because it would make you feel like a star when u were a kid. It isnt about having one ore many pairs of shoes at all. I really think alot of people dont listen, like or start listening to Mack because they truly dont get have what he is sayin lol
i got my mitchell and ness Jay-Z roc-a-fella jersey at a thrift store for $10
You can’t argue over the fact that his music is addictive to me and many people. I don’t think any other rap artist comes close to the level of what he creates. High or low, its his level, and he owns that shit.