News that the rapper was removed from the Neon City lineup comes after his performance at the Palestine Will Love Forever Festival in Seattle over the weekend. A video of Macklemore yelling “Yeah, f— America!” during his performance has since been viewed over a million times on social media.

Macklemore has not kept his stance on the ongoing war in Gaza a secret. In May, he made headlines when he released “Hind’s Hall,” a rap single praising college students for their protests of the war and denouncing the U.S.'s role in the conflict.

  • @[email protected]
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    Been feeling awfully Iraq War-y around here since last October.

    Also I don’t think Macklemore needs this first time festival where he was the most famous and accomplished act as much as they needed him.

    • @Wogi
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      Also

      Fuck America.

  • Seraph
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    History will definitely be on his side for this one.

    The fact that Israel went from having genocide committed against them to committing genocide in under 100 years will be of historical note for centuries. The fact that the world wasn’t sure which side they should be on will also be of note, because to the rest of us it’s pretty fucking obvious: the side killing children is evil.

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      Pretty sure most of the world is against it… Just some psychopathic “leaders” of a few psychopathic Western countries support it

      • Ech
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        That wasn’t a protest, though? It was also 9 years ago, so not sure why you’re insinuating it has anything to do with the last year of violence.

        • @Jordan117
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          Thanks for the correction – I’d heard about the costume thing the other day and thought it was part of the same event as in this story. Doesn’t make it any less anti-semitic (and IDF fuckery in Gaza has been going on for long before October 7th), but it does explain why it seemed like people were ignoring it.

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    Way to go, Mack. Right side of history.

  • @TommySoda
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    I mean to be fair, fuck America.

  • @nemonic187
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    Well his music is terrible but I got no problems with the causes he supports.

      • @deltapi
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        That was before he parted company from Ryan Lewis though, right?

        • @TommySoda
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          Regardless, I’d take it over the majority of other viral songs.

        • @khannie
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          I got the one for you, follow me.

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        Dude also fuckin loves sharks. Stockton Rush may have been a delusional psychopath, but he did at least help Macklemore see a fuckin cool shark.

        That’s how cool Macklemore is, I hate one billionaire one iota less. Just an iota. A small, negligible, but measurable amount