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News that the rapper was removed from the Neon City lineup comes after his performance at the Palestine Will Love Forever Festival in Seattle over the weekend. A video of Macklemore yelling "Yeah, f— America!" during his performance has since been viewed over a million times on social media.

Macklemore has not kept his stance on the ongoing war in Gaza a secret. In May, he made headlines when he released "Hind's Hall," a rap single praising college students for their protests of the war and denouncing the U.S.'s role in the conflict.

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 140 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Been feeling awfully Iraq War-y around here since last October.

Also I don't think Macklemore needs this first time festival where he was the most famous and accomplished act as much as they needed him.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago

Also

Fuck America.

[–] Seraph@fedia.io 113 points 1 day ago (2 children)

History will definitely be on his side for this one.

The fact that Israel went from having genocide committed against them to committing genocide in under 100 years will be of historical note for centuries. The fact that the world wasn't sure which side they should be on will also be of note, because to the rest of us it's pretty fucking obvious: the side killing children is evil.

[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure most of the world is against it... Just some psychopathic "leaders" of a few psychopathic Western countries support it

[–] AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

Way to go, Mack. Right side of history.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

I mean to be fair, fuck America.

[–] nemonic187@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well his music is terrible but I got no problems with the causes he supports.

[–] aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You cannot deny that Thrift Shop slaps hard.

[–] nemonic187@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ughhhh….. it kinda does.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Regardless, I'd take it over the majority of other viral songs.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That was before he parted company from Ryan Lewis though, right?

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly I don't know nothin about mopeds

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I got the one for you, follow me.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dude also fuckin loves sharks. Stockton Rush may have been a delusional psychopath, but he did at least help Macklemore see a fuckin cool shark.

That's how cool Macklemore is, I hate one billionaire one iota less. Just an iota. A small, negligible, but measurable amount