‘More money, more oppression’: Macklemore’s latest single rightfully puts billionaires on blast
‘More money, more oppression’: Macklemore’s latest single rightfully puts billionaires on blast
Social media commended Macklemore’s latest single as “revolutionary.” But his call-outs were arguably not radical. Rather, his piercing words were just an honest commentary about billionaires. Macklemore only comes off as loud because other artists have been deafeningly silent.
Macklemore’s single, “f— up,” raps about how the billionaire class controls key natural and technological resources. He directly illustrates this point by bringing up inmates who work as firefighters for $2 an hour, all while billionaires like the Resnicks have 57% ownership of state water in California. Macklemore describes the system Americans live in for what it is: an oligarchy.