Macklemore, the unapologetilly pro-gay rapper |

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Macklemore, sger and songwrer, his song “Same Love” foc on the issu of discrimatn based on sexualy, gay rights, and marriage equaly. Macklemore’s purpose is to create awarens for pro-gay marriage and relig discrimatn orr to get people to realize that

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SAME LOVEMACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWISTRACK 5 ON THE HEIST FEATURGMARY LAMBERTPRODUCED BYRYAN LEWISTHE THIRD SGLE OM MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS’S BUT ALBUM THE HEIST, “SAME LOVE” IS A POWERFUL SONG ABOUT MARRIAGE EQUALY FOR SAME-SEX UPL, AND HAS PLAYED A BIG… READ MORE JUL. 18, 20121 VIEWER3.7M VIEWS286 CONTRIBUTORSTRANSLATNSFRANçAISSAME LOVE LYRICS[PIANO INTRO][VERSE 1: MACKLEMORE]WHEN I WAS THE THIRD GRA, I THOUGHT THAT I WAS GAY'CSE I ULD DRAW, MY UNCLE WAS, AND I KEPT MY ROOM STRAIGHTI TOLD MY MOM, TEARS SHG DOWN MY FACESHE'S LIKE, "BEN, YOU'VE LOVED GIRLS SCE BEFORE PRE-K"TRIPP', YEAH, I GUS SHE HAD A POT, DIDN'T SHE?A BUNCH OF STEREOTYP ALL MY HEADI REMEMBER DOG THE MATH LIKE, "YEAH, I'M GOOD AT LTLE LEAGUE"A PRE-NCEIVED IA OF WHAT ALL MEANTFOR THOSE THAT LIKE THE SAME SEX HAD THE CHARACTERISTICSTHE RIGHT-WG NSERVATIV THK 'S A CISNAND YOU N BE CURED WH SOME TREATMENT AND RELIGNMAN-MA, REWIRG OF A PRE-DISPOSNPLAYG GOD, AW NAH, HERE WE GOAMERI THE BRAVE STILL FEARS WHAT WE DON'T KNOWAND "GOD LOV ALL HIS CHILDREN" IS SOMEHOW FOTTENBUT WE PARAPHRASE A BOOK WRTEN THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGOI DON'T KNOW[CHOS: MARY LAMBERT]AND I N'T CHANGEEVEN IF I TRIEDEVEN IF I WANTED TOAND I N'T CHANGEEVEN IF I TRIEDEVEN IF I WANTED TOMY LOVE, MY LOVE, MY LOVESHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2: MACKLEMORE]IF I WAS GAY, I WOULD THK HIP-HOP HAT MEHAVE YOU READ THE YOUTUBE MENTS LATELY?"MAN, THAT'S GAY" GETS DROPPED ON THE DAILYWE'VE BEE SO NUMB TO WHAT WE'RE SAY'OUR CULTURE FOUND OM OPPRSNYET WE DON'T HAVE ACCEPTANCE FOR 'EMCALL EACH OTHER FAGGOTS BEHD THE KEYS OF A MSAGE BOARDA WORD ROOTED HATE, YET OUR GENRE STILL IGNOR AND "GAY" IS SYNONYMO WH THE LSERIT'S THE SAME HATE THAT'S ED WARS OM RELIGNGENR TO SK LOR, THE PLEXN OF YOUR PIGMENTTHE SAME FIGHT THAT LED PEOPLE TO WALK-OUTS AND S-SIT'S HUMAN RIGHTS FOR EVERYBODY, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCELIVE ON AND BE YOURSELFWHEN I WAS AT CHURCH THEY TGHT ME SOMETHG ELSEIF YOU PREACH HATE AT THE SERVICE, THOSE WORDS AREN'T ANOTEDTHAT HOLY WATER THAT YOU SOAK HAS BEEN POISONEDWHEN EVERYONE ELSE IS MORE FORTABLE REMAG VOICELSRATHER THAN FIGHTG FOR HUMANS THAT HAVE HAD THEIR RIGHTS STOLENI MIGHT NOT BE THE SAME, BUT THAT'S NOT IMPORTANTNO EEDOM 'TIL WE'RE EQUAL, DAMN RIGHT I SUPPORT [TROMBONE INTERLU][CHOS: MARY LAMBERT]AND I N'T CHANGEEVEN IF I TRIEDEVEN IF I WANTED TOMY LOVE, MY LOVE, MY LOVESHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARM[VERSE 3: MACKLEMORE]WE PRS PLAY, DON'T PRS PSE, PROGRS, MARCH ONWH A VEIL OVER OUR EY, WE TURN OUR BACK ON THE E'TIL THE DAY THAT MY UNCL N BE UNED BY LAWWHEN KIDS ARE WALKG 'ROUND THE HALLWAYPLAGUED BY A PA THEIR HEARTA WORLD SO HATEFUL, SOME WOULD RATHER DIE THAN BE WHO THEY AREAND A CERTIFITE ON PAPER ISN'T GONNA SOLVE ALLBUT 'S A DAMN GOOD PLACE TO STARTNO LAW'S GONNA CHANGE , WE HAVE TO CHANGE WHATEVER GOD YOU BELIEVE , WE E OM THE SAME ONESTRIP AWAY THE FEAR, UNRNEATH 'S ALL THE SAME LOVEABOUT TIME THAT WE RAISED UP, SG[CHOS: MARY LAMBERT]AND I N'T CHANGEEVEN IF I TRIEDEVEN IF I WANTED TOAND I N'T CHANGEEVEN IF I TRIEDEVEN IF I WANTED TOMY LOVE, MY LOVE, MY LOVESHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARM[OUTRO: MARY LAMBERT]LOVE IS PATIENTLOVE IS KDLOVE IS PATIENTLOVE IS KD (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS PATIENT (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS KD (I'M NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS PATIENT (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS KD (I'M NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS PATIENT (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS KD (I'M NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS PATIENTLOVE IS KD231EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis "Same Love": When I was the third gra I thought that I was gay 'Cse I uld draw, my uncle was, and I kept... * macklemore i thought i was gay *

When I was the third gra I thought that I was gay. If I was gay, I would thk hip-hop hat me.

I WASN'T BORN THIS WAY. I CHOOSE TO BE GAY.

Same Love Lyrics: When I was the third gra, I thought that I was gay / 'Cse I uld draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight / I told my mom, tears shg down my face / She's like, " * macklemore i thought i was gay *

"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily. "Gay" is synonymo wh the lser.

SAME LOVEMACKLEMORETRACK 9 ON 2014 GRAMMY NOME FEATURGMACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWISPRODUCED BYMACKLEMOREJAN. 13, 00011 VIEWER5 CONTRIBUTORSSAME LOVE LYRICSWHEN I WAS THE 3RD GRAI THOUGHT THAT I WAS GAYCSE I ULD DRAW, MY UNCLE WASAND I KEPT MY ROOM STRAIGHTI TOLD MY MOM, TEARS SHG DOWN MY FACESHE'S LIKE, "BEN, YOU'VE LOVED GIRLS SCE BEFORE PRE-K!"TRIPPG, YEAH, I GUS SHE HAD A POT, DIDN'T SHE?A BUNCH OF STEREOTYP ALL MY HEADI REMEMBER DOG THE MATH, LIKE"YEAH, I'M GOOD AT LTLE LEAGUE"A PRE-NCEIVED IA OF WHAT ALL MEANTFOR THOSE THAT LIKE THE SAME SEX HAD THE CHARACTERISTICSTHE RIGHT-WG NSERVATIV THK 'S A CISNAND YOU N BE CURED WH SOME TREATMENT AND RELIGNMAN-MA, REWIRG OF A PRE-DISPOSN, PLAYG GODAHH, NAH, HERE WE GOAMERI THE BRAVE STILL FEARS WHAT WE DON'T KNOWAND "GOD LOV ALL HIS CHILDREN" IS SOMEHOW FOTTENBUT WE PARAPHRASE A BOOK WRTEN THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGOI DON'T KNOWAND I N'T CHANGEEVEN IF I TRIEDEVEN IF I WANTED TOAND I N'T CHANGEEVEN IF I TRIEDEVEN IF I WANTED TOMY LOVE, MY LOVE, MY LOVESHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMIF I WAS GAY I WOULD THK HIP-HOP HAT MEHAVE YOU READ THE YOUTUBE MENTS LATELY?"MAN, THAT'S GAY" GETS DROPPED ON THE DAILYWE'VE BEE SO NUMB TO WHAT WE'RE SAYGOUR CULTURE FOUND OM OPPRSNYET WE DON'T HAVE ACCEPTANCE FOR 'EMCALL EACH OTHER FAGGOTSBEHD THE KEYS OF A MSAGE BOARDA WORD ROOTED HATEYET OUR GENRE STILL IGNOR "GAY" IS SYNONYMO WH THE LSERIT'S THE SAME HATE THAT'S ED WARS OM RELIGNGENR TO SK LOR, THE PLEXN OF YOUR PIGMENTTHE SAME FIGHT THAT LED PEOPLE TO WALK-OUTS AND S-SIT'S HUMAN RIGHTS FOR EVERYBODY, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCELIVE ON! AND BE YOURSELF!WHEN I WAS CHURCH THEY TGHT ME SOMETHG ELSEIF YOU PREACH HATE AT THE SERVICE, THOSE WORDS AREN'T ANOTEDTHAT HOLY WATER THAT YOU SOAK HAS BEEN POISONEDWHEN EVERYONE ELSE IS MORE FORTABLE REMAG VOICELSRATHER THAN FIGHTG FOR HUMANS THAT HAVE HAD THEIR RIGHTS STOLENI MIGHT NOT BE THE SAME BUT THAT'S NOT IMPORTANTNO EEDOM TIL WE'RE EQUALDAMN RIGHT I SUPPORT I DON'T KNOWAND I N'T CHANGEEVEN IF I TRIEDEVEN IF I WANTED TOAND I N'T CHANGEEVEN IF I TRIEDEVEN IF I WANTED TOMY LOVE, MY LOVE, MY LOVESHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMWE PRS PLAY, DON'T PRS PSEPROGRS, MARCH ON!WH A VEIL OVER OUR EY, WE TURN OUR BACK ON THE E'TIL THE DAY THAT MY UNCL N BE UNED BY LAWKIDS ARE WALKG AROUND THE HALLWAYPLAGUED BY PA THEIR HEARTA WORLD SO HATEFULSOME WOULD RATHER DIETHAN BE WHO THEY AREAND A CERTIFITE ON PAPERISN'T GONNA SOLVE ALLBUT 'S A DAMN GOOD PLACE TO STARTNO LAW'S GONNA CHANGE WE HAVE TO CHANGE WHATEVER GOD YOU BELIEVE WE E OM THE SAME ONESTRIP AWAY THE FEAR, UNRNEATH, 'S ALL THE SAME LOVEABOUT TIME THAT WE RAISED UP!AND I N'T CHANGEEVEN IF I TRIEDEVEN IF I WANTED TOAND I N'T CHANGEEVEN IF I TRIEDEVEN IF I WANTED TOMY LOVE, MY LOVE, MY LOVESHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMSHE KEEPS ME WARMLOVE IS PATIENT, LOVE IS KDLOVE IS PATIENT (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS KD (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS PATIENT (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS KD (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS PATIENT (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS KD (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS PATIENT (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS KD (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS PATIENT (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)LOVE IS KD (NOT CRYG ON SUNDAYS)YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

Same Love Lyrics: When I was the 3rd gra / I thought that I was gay / Cse I uld draw, my uncle was / And I kept my room straight / I told my mom, tears shg down my face / She's like, " * macklemore i thought i was gay *

Although this wasn’t the first rap song to fend homosexualy (See “Animal Style” by Murs), this was the first to see mastream succs.

In 2015, twelve years after the US Supreme Court validated laws prohibg gay sex, and two years after the Court extend Feral regnn of same-sex marriag, gay marriage fally beme legalized s entirety all 50 a qutn about this songAsk a qutn *What have the artists said about the song?

A seven-mute plea for tolerance (namely polics and hip hop), the track has oted Gaga’s "Born This Way" as pop mic's premiere Gay Battle Cry, rightly nmng "right wg nservativ [who] thk 's a cisn, and you n be cured wh some treatment and relign. It’s time for the LGBT muny to stop fearg the word “choice, ” and to reclaim the digny of sexual aversn to that word our muny stems om belief that if we n’t prove that our gayns is blogilly termed, then we won’t have grounds to mand equaly. Perhaps the L and G factns of our muny would do well to follow the polil lead of the Bs and Ts on this of the reasons I thk our activism is so sistent on sexual rigidy is bee, our ph to make gay rights the new black rights, we’ve nflated the two issu.

IS MACKLEMORE GAY? RAPPER SAYS ‘ALRIGHT ... WE’RE GAY!’ [VIDEO]

"Same Love" rapper Macklemore said he is not gay, spe what Inter mors might lead people to believe. * macklemore i thought i was gay *

Argug that gayns is as geilly fixed as race might have bolstered our rhetoric a few years ago, but is necsary to argue that way now?

I unrstand that the geic argument for homosexualy is a direct rponse to the tired “You weren’t born that way” rhetoric of relig people. Wh that md, should we ntue to believe that people will only accept our gayns if they are ma to believe we didn’t choose ?

” (As if homosexualy was taken out of the DSM only to be wrten to the ADA. And sofar as enurag many straight and gay people alike to be open to nontradnal forms of love, I hope he keeps sgg for many years to, whenever the song shuffl across my iPod, I n’t help wonrg whether Macklemore would have thought I served a song even if I told him that I uld, fact, change this if I tried, if I wanted to. When I was the 3rd graI thought that I was gayCse I uld draw, my uncle wasAnd I kept my room straightI told my mom, tears shg down my faceShe's like, "Ben, you've loved girls sce before Pre-K!

SEXUALY: IS MACKLEMORE GAY?

Contrary to speculatn, Macklemore isn't gay. Many fans had assumed the rapper was after he released the song 'Same Love', which talks about legalisg same-sex marriage. The vio for the song was featured YouTube's Pri Week. I an terview wh Chelsea Handler on Chelsea Lately, Macklemore acknowledged the mours about his sexualy, but nfirmed that he was engaged to long-term girliend Tricia Davis." name="scriptn * macklemore i thought i was gay *

A bunch of stereotyp all my headI remember dog the math, like"Yeah, I'm good at ltle league"A pre-nceived ia of what all meantFor those that like the same sex had the characteristicsThe right-wg nservativ thk 's a cisnAnd you n be cured wh some treatment and relignMan-ma, rewirg of a pre-disposn, playg GodAhh, nah, here we goAmeri the brave still fears what we don't knowAnd "God lov all his children" is somehow fottenBut we paraphrase a book wrten thirty-five hundred years agoI don't knowAnd I n't changeEven if I triedEven if I wanted toAnd I n't changeEven if I triedEven if I wanted toMy love, my love, my loveShe keeps me warmShe keeps me warmShe keeps me warmShe keeps me warmIf I was gay I would thk hip-hop hat meHave you read the YouTube ments lately?

"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the dailyWe've bee so numb to what we're saygOur culture found om opprsnYet we don't have acceptance for 'emCall each other faggotsBehd the keys of a msage boardA word rooted hateYet our genre still ignor "Gay" is synonymo wh the lserIt's the same hate that's ed wars om relignGenr to sk lor, the plexn of your pigmentThe same fight that led people to walk-outs and s-sIt's human rights for everybody, there is no differenceLive on!

MACKLEMORE, THE UNAPOLOGETILLY PRO-GAY RAPPER

"When I was the third gra, I thought that I was gay ‘Cse I uld draw, my uncle was and I kept my room straight I told my mom, tears shg down my f... * macklemore i thought i was gay *

Many onle ers wonred whether Macklemore, the man behd hs such as “Thrift Shop, ” was gay after the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis song “Same Love” about marriage equaly was released. ” Handler that pot, the Seattle rapper, 30, explaed that if Google Search ers type “is” or “Macklemore” to the search text box, one of the first thgs that up reads, “Is Macklemore gay. ” Therefore, he said wh his head down, “So, y, the Inter thks that I’m gay.

BOY GEE: “MACKLEMORE WOULDN’T HAVE THE SAME IMPACT IF HE WAS GAY”

* macklemore i thought i was gay *

“We met on Myspace, ” Lewis told the talk-show Handler jokgly wonred whether anyone still ed Myspace, Macklemore threw his hands up the air and said, “All right, fe, we’re gay! ” And she quipped, “That do sound pretty gay, ” which led the “Thrift Shop” star to bow his head once aga and say, “Y.

Y, I support gay marriage/relatnships. One was gay.

Sexualy: Is Macklemore Gay?

STARS ALIGN FOR A GAY MARRIAGE ANTHEM

“Same Love,” a h sgle om Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, is the first Top 40 song to promote and celebrate gay marriage. * macklemore i thought i was gay *

Contrary to speculatn, Macklemore isn't gay. “If I was gay, I would thk hip-hop hat me.

‘Man, that’s gay’ gets dropped on the daily, ” rapper Macklemore says on his strintly pro-gay “Same Love” that’s been blowg up the mic and LGBT blogosphere. And at a time when hip-hop is unrgog a sea change on how als wh homosexualy, pecially light of Frank Ocean’s pathbreakg revelatn of his own bisexualy this summer.

MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS – SAME LOVE WHEN I WAS THE 3RD GRA I THOUGHT THAT I WAS GAY CSE I COULD DRAW, MY UNCLE WAS AN [PDF]

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – Same Love When I was the 3rd gra I thought that I was gay Cse I uld draw, my uncle was And I kept my room straight I * macklemore i thought i was gay *

The genre has been cricized sce s ceptn for s homophobia and sexism, wh s emphasis on aggrsive masculy and liberal e of the other f-word, and there was a time when would be almost impossible to image a succsful gay hip-hop artist. “Almost every synopsis of Frank, the 24-year-old sger-songwrer who’s eher gay or bisexual, fixat on his ambiguy, " Vibe’s Clover Hope wr.

Macklemore - Same Love Lyrics. When I was the third gra I thought that I was gay 'Cse I uld draw, my uncle was and I kept my room straight I told my mom, tears * macklemore i thought i was gay *

Macklemore, who is not gay, says he was spired to wre his song by the stubborn homophobia his genre. “I watched so many rerds receivg cril acclaim that were very rogatory to homosexuals. And Obama seemed to brg a chunk of the black muny wh him, which should only make easier for gay hip -hop artists the future.

“When I was the third gra, I thought that I was gay. Culture Club ontman and gay in Boy Gee feels straight artists receive more exposure and have a greater impact supportg gay rights than artists who are gay, sayg he wonred if Macklemore‘s h Same Love would’ve had the same impact if the rapper was himself gay.

“If had been a gay rapper that had done Same Love I thk probably wouldn’t have had the same impact, ” said Gee. I thk Same Love is a great rerd, I don’t re if he’s straight or gay, don’t matter. “If you’re gay dog that song people thk you’re preachg.

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Is Macklemore Gay? Rapper Says ‘Alright ... We’re Gay!’ [VIDEO] .

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