Video: Macklemore's new song critical of Trump and Musk is facing heavy censorship across major platforms.

Macklemore stepping up to the plate where no fake rappers dared.
Kendrick is fake.
Drake is fake.
Macklemore is the real one.

I have been waiting for the rap and punk political songs. Happy to see this, minus the censorship.

Let's be sure to support the creators who speak up. The song is pretty good, video is chilling. Sharing with the people I normally send music suggestions with

I watched it for the purpose of resistance.

Not my kind of music, but it's an important message.

It's not exactly my genre of music but i like it anyway.
It does feel like chaotic times are ahead. At some point, the republicans will do something so vile that people will say "No", and when that happens there will be violence.
I don't want a civil war. I don't want unrest. But I do want every republican and their enablers removed from power, and the billionaires stripped of their wealth. I don't know how to get from here to there.
- I disagree. If we aren't up in arms now we never will be. There won't be a moment where they go too far. That moment already happened when project 2025 came out and he was still elected. Now that every element of project 2025 is underway there won't be some great shocking moment. Just a slow slide until one day you realize the only real chance to stop the coup was at the start of the presidency.
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  https://fedia.io/m/history@lemmy.world/t/1432476/An-excerpt-from-They-Thought-They-Were-Free-The-Germans
  https://2025realitycheck.com/
- Violence isn't the answer, it is the question. And the answer depends on whether people have been stripped enough of their rights and dignity.
  
  I always like to say: there was a way America gained its independence and it wasn't by standing around waving signs

"you can pay off meta, you can't pay off me"
-Macklemore - Hinds Hall
This is the result of not opposing Zionism and the crackdowns on free speech, protests, peaceful organizers...
You cannot accept the "lesser of two evil" decline into Fascism. You have to resist it.

It’s facing heavy censorship because the title is “fucked up”. Every video to come out in the last decade knows to title it “f*cked up” so it doesn’t get demonetized. But he doesn’t care because people will talk, and it’ll make it more know.
- That does seem plausible. Still, where are all the other protest songs? The 60's and 70's had great protest songs that I still listen to, even if the context is gone. It feels to me like the kindling is wet.

Oh lawd he back. Just when the world needed him most

Damn. I don’t like Macklemore and now I feel like I have to listen to this track.
- It goes hard, worth a listen.
- Dude I don't like the majority of his stuff but that vid gave me chills. If you're feeling the frustration and rage by the bullshit this administration is pulling, that vid is a balm to your soul.
  
  I get that you probably didn't mean much by it but don't let if be "a balm to your soul" let it inspire you to action and speaking up against this regime.
- You should.
  Its worth it whether youre into his music or not

Pretty good video. I fuck with this song's energy.

If the art makes them upset, it's telling the truth.
It's funny to me that anyone is reporting this. It's obviously your comm lol Eff'em.
- The Emoji Movie made people upset. Was it telling the truth to power?
  
  The what now?

In regards to the reports, I started this community up for myself to keep track of the real things happening that hopefully avoids the distractions of what trump or his fellow baddies say. I'm using what little voice I have to share a political song that is getting censored. You can call me a power tripping bastard and I'll say yeah, probably. I've seen your complaints.
- Honestly, hip hop probably only exists because of politics.
- Lol people are reporting this?
  Sorry the politically motivated censorship of a political song isn't politics enough.
  
  I just meant this to be a note to my regular users, I never expected it to go to the front page. It sounds way more dramatic than I intended, lol.

Youtube link to help get it to trending - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn9EKC9nqU4&rco=1 (if youtube allows it, probably not)
- 1.5M views, I think they’re allowing it.
  
  His prev vids got hundreds of millions
  
  It's marked nsfw tho which I assume means no trending

It’s on YouTube 🤷

Wow, this song goes hard. I love it. Can't find it on Tidal, so definitely something is up. Tidal rarely is missing songs.
- https://tidal.com/browse/track/417610855?u
  
  So it is, thanks! I just assumed it wasn't when I went to the artist and just saw his 2023 album.
- It is definitely on Tidal. I can shoot the link if you want it.

I was never really a fan but Macklemore is on it these days. Power to the people.

Thank you for posting an alternative link! I had to resort to screen recording to post it due to YouTube's age restriction.
- Here is a link without restriction

Thank you for sharing, that’s great.

How's it being censored?
Not cynical, I believe that. But I'm genuinely curious about specifics. Is it, like, algorithmically deprioritized?
- Is it, like, algorithmically deprioritized?
  Yes, that's modern censorship. The owners of social media get to decide how viral a piece of content will be.
  This is why when you make a new X account it pushes right-wing conspiracy nonsense. Or why Palestinian topics don't gain traction.
  The manipulation of social media to control what you see and hear is invisible. Some people, topics and keywords can be deprioritized and others boosted and nobody can know the extent except the people that own the social media companies.
  The Social Dilemma and The Great Hack go into the nuts and bolts of how people are profiled so that content can be targeted at them as well as how political outcomes are driven by the manipulation of social media, they're on Netflix.
- You have to sign in to see it and it's really hard to find on youtube even if you're signed in. I had a hard time finding an open version of it. It's not outright banned, just really hard to access.
  
  YouTube recommended it to me in my sidebar a few days ago. I imagine the curse word in the title has more to do with the algorithmic suppression than the actual content.
  
  Not logged in, and the first two of my results were this video. I was able to watch it.
  I'm all for calling out censorship when it happens, but lets not make an issue when one doesn't exist.
  
  I found it just by searching for it. It was very easy to find. And of course, anyone subscribed to Macklemore would have gotten a notification about it as well.
- He’s just rapping headline news. Not my type of artist, but anyway to send a message is good. Especially if it upsets MAGA.
  
  Wonder what Immortal Technique or Paris is doing these days 🤔
- He said a naughty word! Won't anybody think of the children?

Everyone know there would have been a lot of unhappy people with trump election. The government knows too, expect them to try to do everything in their power to try to contain protests.

The video is easily findable on YouTube, it's shows up both in search and on his official page.

please don't tell me i have to listen to macklemore to protest
- Nope, you have a choice. No one is tricking you, his name is on the link.
  Here is a link to the lyrics if that helps: https://genius.com/Macklemore-fucked-up-lyrics
  
  thank you! i used the generative ai in my head to imagine how it would sound with guante singing it
- okay we won’t