New Video: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Ft. Eric Nally, Kool Moe Dee, Melle Mel, & Grandmaster Caz “Downtown”
August 27, 2015 @ 12:19 PM EDT
Video
Downtown Funk.
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are taking it to the old school. Featuring some of hip-hop’s founding fathers, Mack and Ryan pepper G-Funk, rock & roll, and pop onto their new single. Says Ryan:
“Not only was hip hop incredible in the late 70’s/early 80’s, but rock and roll was incredible, too. Phenomenal things were happening on completely polar ends of the spectrum. The challenge was how to make them fit together.”
UPDATE: Whoa, what a video. Featuring Ken Griffey Jr and the entire city of Seattle.
Thay are going to play this shit hella lot on The radio SMH
pop station!
Yea. The station for people who buy records.
Ummm … OK or maybe because its a POP SONG!
As is every #1 record. Which you mfs keep track of like your gf’s dick history…your point?
you dont know what the fuck pop means, this shit is funk/hip hop
This is funk and hip-hop infused yes. But it’s a pop song. Just like “uptown funk”.
your definition of pop sir?
Any record that lacks deep conceptual substance, with short timed chord progressions and transitions that can’t be classified by one of the major genres while infusing multiple sounds together.
Anything else, bitch?
according to your stupidity everything (except from psychedelic music) classifies as pop, if you actually listend theres like 2 choruses of 10 seconds each doing that “pop” thing , the rest was clear old school hip hop and funk
you hating on this cause you know it will sell
It’s pop BITCH get over it!
A) I never hated on the song once. I said it’s going to be the their 3rd #1 you dumb bitch.
B) James Brown is funk. George Clinton. The Ohio Players. Bootsy Collins. This ain’t funk. You prob have no fuckin idea who I’m talking about so go ask your token black friend’s dad to spin his vinyl.
C) the Downtown bridge/breakdown is a clear sign of a pop record. Clear as fuckin day. No hip-hop or funk record transitions like that.
This is going to be marketed to Pop radio because this is a pop record. Just bc a mf talks fast doesn’t make it rap and just because you hear a deep bass guitar doesn’t make it funk.
Eat a dick.
a) i know more funk that your punk ass
b) you are def or something, every deam instrument used on this is funk as fuck
c) he rapping on it like it or not
d) this fools will make it to the pop station with something 10% pop and 90% retro hip hop/funk
post data: i dont even listen to macklemore
I’d call his music hip-pop. And I agree, in no way is this a funk song like that other kid is saying
Actually there’s 2 pop choruses that last for almost 45 seconds each
is this a pop song? yes or not?
POP mean POPULAR! So Any MUSIC can be POP!
so stupid. theres a music genre called pop and an other thing called pop culture.
facts failed!
It’s just short for POPULAR!! LOOK IT UP!!!!
you didnt get it, let me explain: theres diferent genres of music like rock, hip hop, electro, etc and each one has its own rules of rhythm, instruments they use, style, etc.
pop is one of them, has its own musical rules. when we say pop we mean that musical style, not the definition of pop (wich is right it means popular)
I get what you saying and we BOTH RIGHT! Chris Brown make R&B but since his FAN BASE is so STRONG they are call him POP but Chris Brown is R&B! Beyoncé and Rihanna is the same thing!
agreed sir
Pop music (a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of “popular”) is a genre of popular music
when everybody is going retro style this motherfuckers found the way to make it better than the rest, that shit has a REAL classic sound to it
Uh oh…a third #1 for M&RL?
The most important part is ERIC NALLY
this the type of shit that be playing on the radio then you quickly change the station and the shit playing on 2 fucking stations simultaneously…now you sitting there like….. this that bullshitt!!!
Exactly. Lmao.
Finally you agree
YOU FILTHY BAMA FOR ONCE I AGREE WITH YOUR GRIMEY ASS!!!
FK YO FEELINGS VLAD!!!
Whatever bama hating is in your blood.
I think we can all agree, no matter how much you dislike Drake, Drake Season is way better than Macklemore season.
I agree pete.
Birdman’s the only one mentioned who actually owns a Bugatti, just saying.
Just when you thought that it couldn’t get any worse lol it is what it is
UPDATE: Whoa, what a video. Featuring Ken Giffey Jr and the entire city of Seattle. – @Bdot
Mac diesel was right about lol you ain’t nothin but a fan boy! Always hyped up and excited over mediocre shit you can keep pushing macklemore all you want hihop is not going to accept em. #popstar #benson
why does this site like these guys so much and try and force them upon us
Did you not watch the video? That shit was dope.
Because they aren’t that bad…and they get views
to be fair they’re more popular than almost every other artist on here (almost)
JUST WHEN YOU WANTED TO COMPLAIN THIS SHEISTY LIL BAMA FOUND A WAY TO ONE UP YOU SO CALLED HIP HOP FANS ,HE RECRUITED THE GREATS FOR THIS SONG SOMETHING YOUR SO CALLED RAP HEROES WOULD NEVER DO!!! NOW STFU AND ENJOY THE MUSIC AND VISUALS!!! FK YO FEELINGS!!!
Culture vultures stick together…
LOSERS GANGBANGING IN 2015 ALSO STICK TOGETHER!!!!
FK YO FEELINGS CUUUZ!!!
But you personally know jayo felony… Lol
Edm producers who claim there not of European descent who have 15 inch noses and whose mother is a Greek whore in 2015 also stick together…
Bitch beats are worse than D4l fuc all you saltine culture vulture…
Lol you murdered that bama.
Oh I know… Watch him switch his soundcloud AGAIN and hide his EDM music again
That nigga rap? Send me a link mylo.
Mikeyfreshbeats/soundcloud.com the first poser you see that’s him.
[email protected]
This weirdo is singing his own hooks sounding like JaRule in a headlock…
Oh yeah @mikeyfreshmusic for his Twitter and IG straight up loser…
YOUR A LOSER CUZ!!! PLAIN AND SIMPLE YOU’RE A LOSER WHAT YOU STAND FOR IS FOR LOSERS!!! GET YA LIFE TOGETHER CUZ!!!!
FK YO FEELINGS!!!
Yep but you love my culture.. Is yo homie rich Rollin jay and boobie loc losers.
See your have 6 friends, beats that sell for 0.99 a track lol. No kids l, no life, you wear a kufi and dress like a poser lmao.
YOUR CULTURE IS DEATH DOOM AND DESTRUCTION OF YOUR OWN!!! I COULD NEVER LOVE THAT!!! GET YA LIFE TOGETHER CUZ!!!
FK YO FEELINGS!!!
Yep but your personal friends with boobie Loc, and jayo felony.
You on here praising the Game every post… Lol but my culture is the death of own? Lol
Culture vultures say the weirdest shit… Lol
YOUR THE SELF PROCLAIMED CRIP…ON HERE LAUGHING AND PROMOTING 100 DAYS 100 NIGHTS…WHO’S GONNA SUFFER FROM THAT STUPIDITY? HMMMM TAKE A GOOD GUESS MORON!!!
YOU CAN’T SPAR WITH ME BAMA!!!
FK YO FEELINGS!!!
I’m a cat that’s two to three states from the state your actually from…. You can come see for your NY calming self… Laughing and promoting? Nobody with a life on here can vouch for you… 100/100 was cats who knew KP personally and went up and still going up… Parties/car washes/gatherings and candle light visuals… But leave it up to your kind to make it into something else… Straight culture vulture at its finest… You must be a cop… Worry about the Denver community…
I’M FROM NY BORN AND BRED BAMA!!! YOUR PATHETIC ATTEMPT AT SHAMING ME WON’T WORK!!! I WOULD LOVE TO KICK YOUR ASS I KNOW YOU CAN’T BEAT ME…BOOOY I GOT TO TAKE YOU OFF A HERE!!! SUCKA YOU THINK YOU GOOD..YOU THINK YOU CAN WHOOP ME? YO WHOLE STYLE IS CHUMP!!! FK YO FEELINGS!!!
Bitch u from Denver… Period… Just like your soundcloud says…
I guarantee on my families life on my dead homies grave you wouldn’t land a blow lol. The cat that wears a kufi and prescription glasses wouldn’t last an hour round my way… But hey you know jayo felony and “boobie” loc, your from NY but your soundcloud says Denver, your Greek-black, your nose doesn’t look like Pinocchio after telling seventeen lies, my grandmother is white. Yo beats are up there with Harry Fraud and London…
Weird ass vulture…
THE AVERAGE HOMELESS BUM HAS MORE VALUE THAN YOU…YOUR LIFE IS NO MORE THE WORTH OF A 4 FOR A 1$ CORNER STORE BLUE RAG!!! THAT MEANS YOU COULD LOSE YOUR LIFE FOR 25CENTS!!!
MY LIFE IS SWEET FK BOI I GO ANYWHERE I WANT AND DO WHAT I WANT WHERE I WANT!!! CHEW ON THAT GANGSTA CRIP!!!
FK YO FEELINGS!!!
But you have six friends, live in a Denver basement, and sell beats for less than a mere blue rag…
Lol you can go anywhere well bring yo dirty ass to LA so I can rearrange that long ass nose…
You must have me confused with “Bobbie loc” lol culture vulture what’s a Gangsta Crip? We call them Garbage Cans much like your beats…
GOODNIGHT 25CENT!!! YOU HAVE BEEN ETHERED!!! YOUR A LOSER BECAUSE YOU CHOOSE TO BE!!!
GET YOUR LIFE TOGETHER CUZ!!!
I’M GOING BACK TO FINISH CATCHING UP ON RAY DONOVAN ON MY 60 INCH SONY TV SIPPING MY CANADA DRY GREEN TEA GINGER ALE!!! PEACE OUT BAMA!!!
FK YO FEELINGS!!!
Oh yeah peeped you on Twitter at Mikeyfreshmusic…. Guarantee ima slap the shit out of you at one of them lame Denver beats you promote… Why yo your bio say Denver and not NY to Denver… How you a DJ and sucsessful with 240 followers? Straight loser… Stop disrespecting Nas with that eithered shit you eithered the game with them cheap ass beats…
YOUR CONFUSED BAMA!!! LIKE I SAID MY LIFE IS BETTER THAN YOURS BECAUSE YOU CHOOSE TO BE AFFILIATED WITH SUCKA LOSER SHIT!!! AND LIKE A LIL HIGH SCHOOL CHICK YOU THINK IT’S KOOL!!! YOUR DOOMED 25CENT!!! I FEEL SORRY FOR YOUR MOTHER BECAUSE SHE’S GONNA PROBABLY WIND UP STRUGGLING TO BURY YOUR DUMB ASS!!! AND NOTICE I DIDN’T MENTION FEELING SORRY FOR YOUR DADDY BECAUSE I KNOW HE PROBABLY COULD GIVE LESS THAN 25 CENTS ABOUT YO ASS!!! SMARTEN UP MYHO!!! YOU CAN’T SPAR WITH ME BAMA!!!
FK YO FEELINGS!!!
I thought you was watching a show.. It’s 9:34 in NY and yo loser ass is replying to me… Lol
I GOT THE COMMENTS FK BOI WHERE YOU BROUGHT UP 100/100 !! YOU LIKE A LIL GROUPIE BITCH THOUGHT THAT SHIT WAS GANGSTA…AND WHEN YOU BROUGHT IT UP YOU WERE TRYING TO SOUND INTIMIDATING SO STOP THE BACKTRACKING FK BOI SHIT!!!
FK YOU AND THE BULLSHIT YOU REPRESENT!!! FK YO FEELINGS!!!
Lol nah whites are just intimidated by us. Like I told yo disgruntled garbage beats making ass worry about the Greeks in Denver…
Talking about come to NY and yo Ali G lookin ass is in Denver…
Crumb
I’M IN NY RIGHT NOW FEET UP MORON!!! LOL I WISH I COULD LINK A PIC ,YOUR STUPID!!! SMH I’M LAUGHING AT YOU!!!
FK YO FEELINGS!!!
Bitch please post it on yo IG right now you EDM bitch…
but I can
A retard can… Disrespect to the culture… I’m sure his Greek family is ashamed…
FAG. ..FK YO FEELINGS!!!
YOU FKN FAG…YOUR BOYFRIENDS NAME IS PINKY!!! YOU AUTOMATICALLY LOSE BAMA!!!
FK YO FEELINGS!!!
What Macklemore did on this song, uniting legends and paying homage, is the exact opposite of being a culture vulture. Got to give him props
On this song…
And what that got to do with Mikeyfreshbeats.com
Lol I was just talking about Mack
Oh Mac cool… I respect him because unlike Miley I mean Mikeyfresh he not trolling, he did his shit and now he on… I don’t respect this culture vulture named Mikey on no level… He from Denver but claims NY, his music is garbage as fuck and he has the nerve to get on any rapper that actually made it.
YOU 2 FACED CONFUSED BAMA…OH SO I’M JUST THE ONLY CRACKA YOU HATE? SMH YOURE A CLOWN MHYO!!! WHITEY THIS CRACKA THAT..NOW MACK IS KOOL?
KILL YA SELF!!! FK YO FEELINGS!!!
whats up Denver boy….. ?
DICK RIDER!!! FK YO FEELINGS!!!
nah you one of many crackas but All whites aren’t crackas… Racist police, politicians, officers, DA’s, judges, and rap site trolls who live in Denver but claim NY is who I consider crackas! Much like you… Mixed with poser and a dash of loser!
u sound dumb fyi
STAY OFF MY COMMENTS BAMA!!!
FK YO FEELINGS!!!
ha I just read your original comment, my bad. This shit is fire, enjoy the music!
please don’t even give this guy your time
yeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaa
i swear this guy reaches so hard to be the people pleaser with his music…no were rappin about mo peds over bugattis ?!?! Thrift shop 2 anybody?
It’s funny how all these so called real Hip-Hop artists shit on a artist like Macklemore yet he’s the one paying homage and respect to the legends doing songs with Melle Mel, Grandmaster Caz, and Kool Moe Dee while all these other so called legends stay putting out crap…
What legends you talking about that put out crap? The legends you talking about aint put out shit dope in decades. JayZ, Nas, Scarface, Raekwon, Method Man, Ghostface, Ras Kass, Common etc… still putting out dope shit so wtf you talking about? As far as Macklemore goes? Paying homage don’t mean you making better music then everybody else just cause you respect your elders.
I think your missing his point. Macklemore being more hip hop right now than most “hip hop” artist.
I don’t see how. A video that just came out today with Hip Hop pioneers doesn’t mean a bunch of other artists just stopped being Hip Hop.
Not “most” EVERY ARTIST!!! It CAN’T get more HIP HOP than this! Dude TROLLING you LOL
Oh it can get very much so more Hip Hop then this… Its just people see a Macklemore video and are quick to say he’s more Hip Hop then everybody else as if Kendrick, Dr Dre, Lupe, Joey Badass, Ludacris, Curren$y, Skyzoo etc… Aint just put out Hip Hop material. Macklemore more Hip Hop the every artist? Fuck no.
HIP HOP is SPRAY PAINTING, BREAKING DANCING, DJing and MCing/BATTLING!!! You thinking about RAP!!! RAP and HIP HOP are NOT SAME!!!
Nowhere in my comment did I say Hip Hop is just rap but Macklemore making a video with the other elements does NOT mean he’s more Hip Hop then every other artist. Missy did the same thing in several of her videos too but that don’t mean she’s more Hip Hop then say Slaughterhouse just because they don’t break dance. Macklemore, riding mopeds with a moose head in the front, with what looks like some kinda glam rock pop singer from the 70s disco scene singing about the feeling in between his legs does not make Macklemore more Hip Hop then everybody else.
we not saying MACKLEMORE is HIP HOP we saying the VIDEO IS TRUE HIP HOP!!! Fuck NO he’s NOT HIP HOP! But this VIDEO is 100% HIP HOP NO CUT!!! We saying NO ARTIST has put out a TRUE HIP HOP VIDEO in this FORM COVERING “ALL” GROUNDS of HIP HOP!!! MACKLEMORE is a WHITE RAPPER!!!
Its definitely some cut on this video and no Macklemore is not the only artist to put out a video with all the elements of Hip Hop in it.
it don’t get more HIP HOP than THIS! This was DOPE! This 100% HIP HOP NO CUT! I don’t LISTEN to Mack music but he just PAID HOMAGE to the HIGHEST LEVEL you can!
GOHWTBS.. Don’t act like Jay-Z didn’t do a record with Slick Rick and Biz Markie.. plenty of rappers pay homage. And, oh yeah this songs sounds like a weak version of Bruno Mars Uptown.
no it doesn’t!!!!!!!!!! this is downtown not uptown and they don’t have the same fucking beat!!!!!!!!!!!
This man got Eric Nally from Foxy Shazam; which is probably one of the best live bands in our current generation. Not only that but he put in some Hip Hop Legends with cameo’s from a MLB Hall of Famer in Ken Griffey Jr. Bro … if you respect the art then you should appreciate this record/video.
And I’m not really a fan of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
I’ll never understand how this utter crap can be recognized as being worthy of a post. Now before any of you fanboys lose your minds, I have one of the most open minds you will ever come across when it comes to hip hop music (I’m a Young Thug fan). I gave it 3 listens all the way through, start to finish, and… it’s mass produced garbage. Seriously, this is not good. At all.
The attempts at flows are stiff and full of the same old cliches. I mean honestly, when you look at these guys, neither of them looks like they spent a single day of their lives doing without or suffering, but yet here they are, trying to sound as if they came up with nothing and went hungry, paid their dues, and then suddenly hit it big.
Seriously, white men are not allowed to rap…
YOU HAVE LADY PARTS! #SONICTRANNYPANTS #TROLLOFTHECENTURY
as a person who has young thug as a fuckin avatar go sit down little boy
Once again I’m sitting here like this that bullshit.
I went to Mizzou (a predominantly white university in Missouri) and took an Afro Amercian Lit course. Of course the professor had a gang of books to read and I figured I could just cruise through it cuz I’m black and understood the history already. White kids in that class took it so seriously they put others to shame when discussions came. I say that to say this, Mack and Ryan Lewis are taking their craft and their business very serious and any new acts should either listen or get with them to form a study group.
It’s a good record BUT if the lead artist was black will it get the recognition this song is gonna get. (No) This song is in the same vein as Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk” and Kendrick Lamar “King Kunta”.
DON’T FORGET THE BLACK EYED PEAS!!! FK YO FEELINGS!!!
What song? The Black Eyed Peas leader is a nigga so it don’t count.
LOL THEY HAD NOTHING BUT POP CROSSOVER AFTER THEY ABANDONED HIP HOP!!!
FK YO FEELINGS!!!
Fuck,
shit doesnt appeal to me but i guess i can respect it
N*ggas ain’t shit!! It took a White boy to show this kind of love, publicity stunt or not!
This is probably the wackest most corny Hip Hop song ever made. Call it Pop, or Fuck or paying homage or whatever the fuck you wanna call it but the shit was wack as fuck. If anybody black made this exact same song? NOBODY would say its dope. Macklemore has a great deal of respect for Hip Hop music and Hip Hop culture so I really don’t care that he’s white because he respects the pioneers of this culture… However that doesn’t mean, a nigga gotta pretend like this shit is dope when its corny as fuck and sounds wack and something about it just screams YMCA levels of homosexuality artistically. GTFOHWTBS
I have real respect for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, especially for their early albums because it was dope & HH on so many levels.
The Heist was the shit as well.
But THIS, this is becoming really wrong. Except the rap, I don’t see a single bit of Hip Hop in it.
I hope the whole project will prove me wrong, but damn.
Thanks 4 paying Homage
what kind of honky old ass party was this
NOT THE KIND YOU AND YOUR BOYFRIEND PINKY HAS!!!
FK YO FEELINGS BATTY BOI!!!
Lol Fam…
So Mackelmore playng chess with his next project. He strategically recruited hip hop legends for a song – something that the “new class” of rappers haven’t done. I respect the move, but not the song. It’s super cheesy.However. he will get massive radio spins because he’s a TOP 40 shoe-in no matter what. It comes with the skin color. Like someone mentioned. If A black artist released this type of shit, it wouldn’t even garner enough attention.
THIS BROADWAY MUSICAL RAP IS NOT THE WAVE. GO HOME ORPHAN ANNIE. YOU DRUNK.
maybe its just not for me. I thought it was super corny.
Way better than that first song he put out. That last album had a couple alright catchy hip-pop songs, and this is right in line with those.
@ B.Dot
YOU WERE WALKIN’ AROUND ALL DAY WITH YOUR WOODY!!!! LMAO!!!! ONLY CLOWN IN QUEENS REPPIN’ THOSE CULTURE VULTURIN’ CLOWNS!!!! GET YOUR ONESIE OUT BENSON!!!! IT’S TIME TO CELEBRATE YOUR FAVORITE WHITEBOYS!!!!
………………..HA!!!!! THIS SONG IS ASS!!!!! SHAME ON MOE DEE, MEL, AND CAZ FOR SUPPORTIN’ THIS FUCKERY FOR A CHECK!!!! SHAME ON A NIGGA!!!!!
#BENSON #ELVIS
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
DUDE NO ONE LIKES YOU GET OFF THE FUCKING SITE!!!! QUIT TALKING ABOUT THE GUYS WHO ACTUALLY MAKE THE BLOG JESUS YOU ARE SO FUCKING DUMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
king of rap is back for his crown lol
Has this dude ever been a feature on a hit song? Yeah he can get radio hits, but when has anyone had him on a hot song……..don’t think its happened.
This is a suburban pop version of what Kendrick is doing, these days.
fuckin hit lol
As some one who would casually listen to Mack’s music…he’s very easy to root for! He’s always being himself, he’s shows a great deal of reverence for the culture…he’s not appropriating and more importantly, they are ORIGINAL in sound and presentation. That video they did on the last album on the pirate ship and in Alaska or somewhere…no joke that was one of the most unique and original videos I’ve ever seen and I’ve been watching videos since 81!
Salute to these cats!
Megamind
The level of corniness is unbearable. Lame
Bringing that old school vibe to the middle class white kids! Aint nuthin wrong with that!
It’s funny I scrolled through the comments and not once did I see anyone say the SONG was dope. HIP-POP is alive and well
The update said something about the whole city of Seattle. Are they talking about a different video? Downtown was filmed in Spokane Washington in Eastern Washington not Seattle.
Not bad white boy not bad at all
Not tryna hate but minus the awesome video this music is pretty bad, I can’t imagine myself actually listening to this cheesy song…?
this is just bad
this was dope
Love this shit