Macklemore Blasts Biden, Jabs Drake in Pro-Palestine Protest Song
“Thrift Shop” rapper Macklemore is back with a fiery new song in which he slams both President Joe Biden and Columbia University’s police
The Seattle rapper—who’s never been shy about expressing his political opinions and who has previously been accused of antisemitism
Protests have recently erupted at universities all over the country as students demand that their schools divest from businesses that profit from Israel.
while many of those demonstrations have been interrupted by police crackdowns, Macklemore aims most of his ire at Columbia specifically with the song’s title and accompanying visuals.
In the song, he raps, “If students in tents posted on the lawn / Occupying the quad is really against the law / And a reason to call in the police and their squad
The rapper also takes aim at Biden, rapping, “The blood is on your hands, Biden, we can see it all / And fuck no, I’m not voting for you in the fall / Undecided.”
“History been repeating for the last 75 / The Nakba never ended, the colonizer lied.”
Macklemore said on X that he plans to donate all of its streaming proceeds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.