Before this week, rapper Macklemore hadn’t had a hit record since at least 2014.
But he’s not stupid. By choosing to offend Jews and attack Israel, he’s gotten the most publicity he’s had in a dozen years.
Macklemore’s antisemitic stance has rallied his troops, whoever they are. He also hasn’t been on a record label in years. He self-releases.
Now his sycophants have lodged nine of his singles onto the iTunes top 100.
Only one of them is current, however. “Hinds Hall,” Macklemore’s loathsome dog whistle reaction to the battle at a Columbia university dorm, has gone to number 3.
The other singles are all from his “heyday” back in 2012-14 when he was rapping about and exploiting the gay community.
Trolls are pushing the singles — iTunes, as we know from so many past episodes can be manipulated. So far, nothing is happening on Spotify.
Macklemore continues to avoid criticizing the real culprit here — Israeli PM Netanyahu and his evil right wing government — and just attacking Israel and “Zionism,” because it’s an easy keyword to his followers.
Macklemore is not bright. Or maybe he’s smarter than we think. When you rally thousands against Israel itself — and its right to exist — you’re endangering Jews around the world. He doesn’t understand what Hamas has done to Gaza. You don’t hear the word in his song.
More importantly, Macklemore has no understanding of what happened on October 7th. That’s not interesting to him. Murder, rape, decapitation. He should really go spend a week with Hamas, and write them a song.
If only he’d look at movies like “Holding Liat,” to get another side of the story.
