US rapper Macklemore announces Free Palestine tour after Ed Sheeran fallout
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World NewsThe 43-year-old American rapper, who has almost 40 million monthly listeners on Spotify, announced his Free Palestine Tour on Thursday, with shows set to take place in Dublin, Paris and London in late October.
Macklemore said he will be joined by other musicians and will announce their names soon. He added that US shows are currently being organised.
He said all proceeds raised from the tour will be donated to causes supporting the Palestinian people and the wider movement.
“If these last couple of weeks have shown us anything, it’s that something has shifted over the last three years,” Macklemore said in a statement.
You know what's funny is that if Kraft just got over his bitchass self and ignored Macklemore saying free Palestine, none of this would have happened. Sheeran's tour would have gone like normal, no extra attention would have been drawn to Macklemore's statement, nobody would have been madder than usual at Kraft and Macklemore wouldn't have gone on to do a whole tour specifically for Palestine. It's almost heartening how hard the Streisand effect took place here
Hey, when life hands you watermelons, make agua fresca... or something like that.
Ew hate fresca
For anyone interested in the Dublin gig:
Tickets for the Dublin concert are priced at €67.65 and €77.20, subject to a Ticketmaster service charge.
An artist presale begins at 10am on Monday 28 September, with tickets going on general sale at 10am on Wednesday 30 September.
Does anyone here know his music? Is there any good tracks you'd recommend?
Can't Hold Us
https://youtu.be/2zNSgSzhBfM
This is the big one most people probably know: Thrift shop
Oh, that's the one where he says he'll wear grandpa's clothes? God I hate that song.
Does he have any about Palestine?
Seriously the looping trumpet sample (or whatever the hell it is) in that song drives me crazy. It's his worst song and unfortunately his biggest hit by far.
Hind's Hall is about Palestine, though from what I recall it's just as much about the students in the USA protesting for Palestine as it is directly about palestinians.
Same Love, it's about how gay people are often targeted and that it's not shameful- kind of a coming out to yourself song.
Otherside, it's about addiction and loss. This one wrecks me as someone who's grappled with addiction, and has lost two of my closest people to addiction.
Thrift Shopping may have been his big hit, but he's always been dedicated to rapping about things that are on the serious side.
Ed Sheeran fallout? He blew up? Finally I won't have to listen to his shitty music
I never heard of this dickhead before last week.
Don't lie; he's on the FM dial constantly. Don't double down and say you don't listen to the radio, either. If you've gone out in public, you've listened to the radio at some point, likely in a store or restaurant. It is unavoidable. But if you triple down and say you don't go outside... I believe you. 😂
Found Ed Sheeran's lemmy account!
No, not everyone listens to the horrible talentless music you do.
I'm not defending that talentless hack, I'm calling out people feigning ignorance of a major pop artist who gets constant airplay. Like most pop stars, he's unavoidable.
Also Free Palestine.
I am telling you, I honestly don't know who this douchebag is, and I'm not alone. Not everyone follows that garbage. I listen to blues, to jazz, to rock and roll, funk, mostly to electroswing. And all sorts of music that DOES NOT suck. Pop music DOES SUCK. With a few exceptions, I like some Michael Jackson stuff.
Again, this has nothing to do with the kind of music you listen to. Unless you're living under a rock, you can't avoid pop music. I don't listen to pop, yet I know at least 2 or three of his songs. Everybody does.
Please stop replying to me, cause you are playing dumb and it's getting on my nerves. Knock it off. Go troll elsewhere.
Plaigarizing my joke! Ngl, it's amusing it's the same guy lol
https://lemmy.zip/comment/28888850
You didn't invent that joke beyotch. Fuck all the way off, you think you are the first one that made that joke? What a fucking tool.
It's a joke, calm down. What are you, 12? Lol
It didn't read as a joke.
If you keep digging the hole deeper eventually you'll reach the other hemisphere and then you'll be fine
Keep riding that wave, it's monsoon season and Ed got caught in the storm.
Join the fediverse and tell people about it. Youtube can be pressured by Israel to take down videos and shit, but not the fediverse.
You can't pressure Google into doing what they're doing enthusiastically anyway. They're complicit fully.
They can't intimidate us out of the 1st amendment.
