As all of us now music nowadays has become an important part of our society and culture and most of the people are conscious about it so many musicians try to leave a message through a song making people have a more deep understanding about their surroundings.
The song “Wing$” show us a society where to be cooler than another person has become the first goal. That people think that you are what you buy or what you consume, if you don’t buy expensive things it means that you are nobody, people act like they must have to buy an expensive thing to be more important.
Discrimination now is related with what you buy more than the past because it shows how your economic situation is. Nowadays the importance of money has raised more than …show more content…
Macklemore’s mother was a social worker, when child he was influenced by the likes of hip-hop groups Kris Kross and Digital Underground as well as pop superstar Michael Jackson. When he attended Garfield High School he started to consume liquor and drugs heavily. His parents moved him to another school and into a college-credit program to try to stop that bad behavior. At 25 years old Ben Haggerty was consumed by the allure of sex and a variety of drugs, spiraling down from the abuse. At his father's wish, Ben Haggerty entered a 35-day rehabilitation program.
Ryan Lewis DJ and producer Ryan Lewis was born on March 25, 1988, in Spokane, Washington. He developed an interest in music during his youth, playing the guitar and working in media production. He attended Ferris High School in Spokane, Washington and graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle. He graduated from the University of Washington majoring in Comparative History of Ideas.
In a video posted on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's website, Lewis explained that his mom contracted HIV from a blood transfusion she received in 1984. Julie Lewis was diagnosed with HIV in 1990, after she had given birth to two other children, including Lewis. None of her children contracted the …show more content…
Lewis worked with the rapper first as a creative consultant. Later, after Macklemore recovered from major substance-abuse issues, the two decided to team up and work together musically. On October 9, 2012 the duo released the album “The Heist” within two hits which reached first duo to take its first two singles to No. 1 in the Hot 100's almost-55-year history.
The single “Wing$” was used as a NBA promotional anthem it version was so controversial because of all the censures the song had, the song drops out all the parts where a critic to Nike or related to consumerism,
According to Slate, a daily magazine on the web recognized by the National Magazine Award for General Excellence Online in 2011 , the reason why the song was edited is because: “Adapting a formerly anti-consumerist song in order to promote that endeavor is what some would call selling out. The song is still catchy, and that is what matters to most of his audience. But those who loved Macklemore for his socially conscious lyrics may want to revise what the rapper is supposedly to