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Macklemore: Victoria Warehouse, Manchester

Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 2 April 2018

WHEN HE WAS A STRUGGLING UNKNOWN, Seattle's Ben Haggerty, AKA Macklemore, pondered being a white rapper: "I give everything I have when I write a rhyme / But that doesn't change the fact that this culture's not mine."

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