Video: Macklemore's new song critical of Trump and Musk is facing heavy censorship across major platforms.
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If the art makes them upset, it's telling the truth.
It's funny to me that anyone is reporting this. It's obviously your comm lol Eff'em.
The Emoji Movie made people upset. Was it telling the truth to power?
The what now?
The emoji movie. The one that sucks. Upsetting people isn't proof of being correct. If it was, drag would be the wisest person on all of Lemmy.
.... you're referring to the emoji movie as art? Your ability to take Tele's sentence and completely butcher the concept and wording is more art than that movie could ever dream of being.
In regards to the reports, I started this community up for myself to keep track of the real things happening that hopefully avoids the distractions of what trump or his fellow baddies say. I'm using what little voice I have to share a political song that is getting censored. You can call me a power tripping bastard and I'll say yeah, probably. I've seen your complaints.
Lol people are reporting this?
Sorry the politically motivated censorship of a political song isn't politics enough.
I just meant this to be a note to my regular users, I never expected it to go to the front page. It sounds way more dramatic than I intended, lol.
Honestly, hip hop probably only exists because of politics.
It's not exactly my genre of music but i like it anyway.
It does feel like chaotic times are ahead. At some point, the republicans will do something so vile that people will say "No", and when that happens there will be violence.
I don't want a civil war. I don't want unrest. But I do want every republican and their enablers removed from power, and the billionaires stripped of their wealth. I don't know how to get from here to there.
Violence isn't the answer, it is the question. And the answer depends on whether people have been stripped enough of their rights and dignity.
I always like to say: there was a way America gained its independence and it wasn't by standing around waving signs
I disagree. If we aren't up in arms now we never will be. There won't be a moment where they go too far. That moment already happened when project 2025 came out and he was still elected. Now that every element of project 2025 is underway there won't be some great shocking moment. Just a slow slide until one day you realize the only real chance to stop the coup was at the start of the presidency.
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https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1432476/An-excerpt-from-They-Thought-They-Were-Free-The-Germans
https://2025realitycheck.com/
You're probably right. Dark days ahead.
But I hold out a little hope that people will fight back
Damn. I don’t like Macklemore and now I feel like I have to listen to this track.
You should.
Its worth it whether youre into his music or not
Dude I don't like the majority of his stuff but that vid gave me chills. If you're feeling the frustration and rage by the bullshit this administration is pulling, that vid is a balm to your soul.
I get that you probably didn't mean much by it but don't let if be "a balm to your soul" let it inspire you to action and speaking up against this regime.
Just because it's good to know you're not alone in your feelings doesn't mean you're complacent.
It goes hard, worth a listen.
Youtube link to help get it to trending - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn9EKC9nqU4&rco=1 (if youtube allows it, probably not)
1.5M views, I think they’re allowing it.
It's marked nsfw tho which I assume means no trending
WAP official video isn't age restricted and this is.... Pretty telling.
Not implying anything is wrong with WAP, just comparing two explicit songs, one that calls out Elon and Palestine and one that .... doesn't.
His prev vids got hundreds of millions
Not my kind of music, but it's an important message.
Wow, this song goes hard. I love it. Can't find it on Tidal, so definitely something is up. Tidal rarely is missing songs.
https://tidal.com/browse/track/417610855?u
So it is, thanks! I just assumed it wasn't when I went to the artist and just saw his 2023 album.
It is definitely on Tidal. I can shoot the link if you want it.
Let's be sure to support the creators who speak up. The song is pretty good, video is chilling. Sharing with the people I normally send music suggestions with
I have been waiting for the rap and punk political songs. Happy to see this, minus the censorship.
"you can pay off meta, you can't pay off me"
-Macklemore - Hinds Hall
This is the result of not opposing Zionism and the crackdowns on free speech, protests, peaceful organizers...
You cannot accept the "lesser of two evil" decline into Fascism. You have to resist it.
How's it being censored?
Not cynical, I believe that. But I'm genuinely curious about specifics. Is it, like, algorithmically deprioritized?
You have to sign in to see it and it's really hard to find on youtube even if you're signed in. I had a hard time finding an open version of it. It's not outright banned, just really hard to access.
YouTube recommended it to me in my sidebar a few days ago. I imagine the curse word in the title has more to do with the algorithmic suppression than the actual content.
Not logged in, and the first two of my results were this video. I was able to watch it.
I'm all for calling out censorship when it happens, but lets not make an issue when one doesn't exist.
Please share the links, that would be great if that's true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS5BMZon2Xs
Nice, the non-official version.
The translation from spanish in the description:
Yes, that's modern censorship. The owners of social media get to decide how viral a piece of content will be.
This is why when you make a new X account it pushes right-wing conspiracy nonsense. Or why Palestinian topics don't gain traction.
The manipulation of social media to control what you see and hear is invisible. Some people, topics and keywords can be deprioritized and others boosted and nobody can know the extent except the people that own the social media companies.
The Social Dilemma and The Great Hack go into the nuts and bolts of how people are profiled so that content can be targeted at them as well as how political outcomes are driven by the manipulation of social media, they're on Netflix.
He’s just rapping headline news. Not my type of artist, but anyway to send a message is good. Especially if it upsets MAGA.
Wonder what Immortal Technique or Paris is doing these days 🤔
He said a naughty word! Won't anybody think of the children?
Macklemore stepping up to the plate where no fake rappers dared.
Kendrick is fake.
Drake is fake.
Macklemore is the real one.
Thank you for posting an alternative link! I had to resort to screen recording to post it due to YouTube's age restriction.
Here is a link without restriction
Oh lawd he back. Just when the world needed him most
It’s facing heavy censorship because the title is “fucked up”. Every video to come out in the last decade knows to title it “f*cked up” so it doesn’t get demonetized. But he doesn’t care because people will talk, and it’ll make it more know.
That does seem plausible. Still, where are all the other protest songs? The 60's and 70's had great protest songs that I still listen to, even if the context is gone. It feels to me like the kindling is wet.
Pretty good video. I fuck with this song's energy.
I watched it for the purpose of resistance.
It’s on YouTube 🤷
Thank you for sharing, that’s great.
Everyone know there would have been a lot of unhappy people with trump election. The government knows too, expect them to try to do everything in their power to try to contain protests.
please don't tell me i have to listen to macklemore to protest
Nope, you have a choice. No one is tricking you, his name is on the link.
Here is a link to the lyrics if that helps: https://genius.com/Macklemore-fucked-up-lyrics
thank you! i used the generative ai in my head to imagine how it would sound with guante singing it
Honestly, the lyrics are good, but pairing them with the video is powerful.
But if your comments are more about steering the conversation towards you and how you don't like an artist rather than the message they are trying to spread, then just ignore my comment because it's irrelevant.
okay we won’t