Subjects such as these are not completely ground-breaking for music thanks to the popularity in the last few years of musical comedy - comedians managing to play some power chords on a guitar or piano, whilst spilling out a monologue, usually rhyming, in a simple tune, about topical issues. This new star, Macklemore, is a white rapper (a very very good one), whose subject matter includes how gay marriage should really not be an issue and how much fun it is buying clothes at charity shops. Sterotypical chart-topping rappers are black and make a living covering subjects such as the objectification of women, the purchase of heavy gold jewellery and cars as status symbols, and how firearms can be used to assume dominance over other fellow humans.

As in, I was amazed, as well as the teenage word for very good. But I have just discovered an artist that made my eyes goggle - he's just smashed it all up and it's in a word, amazing. When I think of rap and hiphop, some of it's great and some of it's not, but there's certain associations that are off the agenda for it.

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