photo credit: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Towards the end of my time in high school, I struggled to find my niche. I spread wide across friendship layers, never diving deeper than the surface, just dripping. My unique past full of complexities and lacking in Birches, I found myself lost. Lacking a clear identity, I turned to music. This is when I found Macklemore.
I’m not going to be the trite guy who states he knew about an artist before they were cool. Or sit here complaining about how so-and-so artist sold out, and is now mainstream. Those topics are old, dried-up play-doh (useless and hard to make anything new out of). Why I bring up Macklemore is due to his music being the hand out of the abyss. I connected with his lyrics, what he stood for as an individual, and his struggles growing up. Never before had I felt an artist evoke my experiences through their words in the style which Macklemore presented. Walking out of a cloudy youth, I emerged with a clear cut vision.
Fast forward to present day, I just went to his concert in San Diego. It was my third time, and every time he stands up on the stage, he leads a congregation with his words. I stood with five thousand other fans & felt at the same time, alone with his music, and as one united force pushing the meaning into the air with our carbon dioxide fumes. I’m not sure why I’m sharing this with you right now…maybe it’s because I want you to feel the same thing with an artist, or just to scrape my layers back for exposure.
All I know is that this song below, The End, is my favorite song by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. It heaves and flows, just like my last five years – still etching new tornadoes on my blackboard of life.
“You whispered, ‘don’t you love music
It’s such a gift and I’ll give it to ya
But you gotta use it'”
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