5.8
Avg Score
4
Opinions
#48,921
All Time
11
Tracks
“Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are back with a new album.”
“Being a white rapper has traditionally brought with it a certain amount of baggage. Eminem fronted out his lack of melanin with ferocious technique and something akin to what politicians call “the dead cat strategy”, tossing something appalling on the table to distract from the elephant in the room. Others, like G-Eazy or Asher Roth, got by through styling themselves as preppy or bro rather than g”
“Seattle MC gets introspective, owns up to white privilege on a heartfelt follow-up”
“Three years after they reached superstardom with The Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis return with This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, a blend of juvenile joke raps, inquisitive woke raps, and diaristic contemplations of Macklemore’s life that attempts to prove they belong—that they’re not just white saviors trying to project their face onto the culture.”
