Drake hosted the ESPY Awards Wednesday night, July 16, and took the opportunity to publicly diss Macklemore in an original song called "Honorable Mentions/Side Pieces." As you may recall, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis swept the rap categories at the Grammy Awards last January, picking up statues for Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performa...

Stereogum founder Scott Lapatine has noted several times lately that the polka medleys have always been the best part of Weird Al Yankovic’s albums, and he might have a point. Basically, in addition to numerous parodies and originals, Yankovic always stitches together a string of pop hits covered as ebullient traditional polka tunes; H...

You might recall when Jimmy Kimmel sent Drake around in disguise to ask pedestrians what they thought of Drake. Last night Jimmy Fallon commissioned Macklemore’s musical partner Ryan Lewis for a similar task, but whereas the Drake stunt was to get people’s honest opinions about a polarizing figure, the punchline here is that ...

On Friday night, Macklemore played a show at the EMP Museum in his hometown of Seattle, and he wore a thrown-together costume that looked, for all the world, like an offensive Jewish stereotype. He attempted to refute the idea on Twitter (“A fake witches nose, wig, and beard = random costume. Not my idea of [...]

Macklemore did a show in his hometown of Seattle on Friday, at the opening of the “Spectacle: The Music Video” exhibit at the EMP Museum, and for some mind-fuckingly inexplicable reason, decided to perform in a cobbled-together costume that left him looking like nothing so much as a Jewish man as seen through the eyes [...]