March 2, 2023 • 19 mins
Macklemore stops by the show hours before the release of his new album. Also we invite Macklemore to our European vacation!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Brand. All right, guys, we have we have several assignments
with Mica Lamart. First of all, you know, his new
album Ben is out tonight and all the music is embargoed.
They're not letting anyone play any music till eleven o'clock tonight.
So we have to talk him into letting us play
a song. Yeah, which is so illegal, but we're gonna do.
(00:22):
You know that in the past, when we've played songs
before they released, we got into we got into big trouble, right, yeah.
But if he gives us permission, then were exactly then
he'll be sued by the record company and we're out
of it. Okay. The other thing we've got to talk
him into is coming to MAJORCA with us. Okay, all right, Oh,
he's outside, Hopefully he's not listening to this. Is he
listening to what we're saying? He's not listening to what
(00:43):
we're saying? Is he? Is he listening to what we're saying? Okay, good, Okay,
bring him in. He'll find out a second Micha Lamar,
he's wearing a live leopard. Is I love? This is beautiful?
Come on in. It's so good to see you. Gosh,
look at you. You're get your grown up. Everybody good
to see you too. You know that kid. Michaelamore now
(01:06):
has a seven year old kid. Crazy crazy. I mean,
when she was born, we're like, oh my god, how
cool would be to have Michaelamore is a dad, and
now she wants to trade me in for somebody else. No,
Taylor Swift, definitely. Yeah, she's seven. She's supposed to be
a little trouble. That's true. You know, she's absolutely a gem.
And then treble twenty minutes later that she realized though,
(01:28):
what dad does. Because I know a lot of celebrities say, yeah,
she doesn't care that I'm Elsa from Frozen, you know, like, yeah, no,
she knows. She gets it now. It's taken about six years,
and finally I became cool the minute that she hit kindergarten.
She was like, oh, you're that guy. I learned that
at school today. Pretend I'm Sloane. Yeah I know I
look a little like her, but pretend I'm daddy. What
(01:52):
do you do? I rap? Okay, yeah, I don't know.
I have to work on that answer. I don't know.
We start working on that. Yeah, okay, Well, so this
is Gandhi I think we here. Last time mack Lamar
was here, I was not here. No, okay, so she's
been here for several years. I'm trying to put the
math together the figure last time you were here, and
it doesn't matter. There's are new studios by the way. Why, Yeah,
this is amazing. We walked in and sell the red. Yeah.
(02:13):
I know Shy every day. And here's Danielle Yes like furniture,
you know. And there's Dave Dyer over there. I love
Dave Dyer. He's the best. All right. So we're gonna
have full disclosure. Yeah, we're gonna talk. We're gonna try
to talk you into a few things. I don't say that.
First of all, your album Ben is out tonight at
(02:34):
eleven o'clock, so that means there's no music. I don't
have music to play from this album. I want to
talk you into allowing us to play a song. And
I know there are legalities, there's licensing issues, but I
want to play it with the feeling. I'm not going
to be sued. The feeling, the feeling about playing unreleased
(02:55):
before the album. Can we even do that? Can we
do that? Can we do that? Come on Dave Day,
We get to call it. Oh, let's do it. Let's
all right, let's do it exclusive, let's do it here. First,
we're gonna we're gonna screw the man. I mean, who
has it recently? Yeah? All right, so okay, so an
(03:16):
unreleased cut, we're gonna premiere the world the world premiere
of which cut are we playing? Do we know? No
bad days? Okay, let's do that one. All right, So
we're okay, So we talked to you into that. Yeah,
should I wait for the other one. We'll wait for
the other one. I would just hit him with everything
right now. Yeah, you know, want to go to someone's
party and they just started asking you for crap? I'm like, no, Well,
(03:36):
I'll save the other one for a moment. Okay, wow, uh,
text have been coming in already. Please let Maclamore know
how important his music was to me and helped save
my life in twenty sixteen, I was in rehab. It
was his music. They kept inspiring me every single day
to keep going and now thanks to him. March eleventh,
eight years clean, eight years sober. Let's give it up
(03:58):
for that? Can we give it out for eight years sober?
That's amazing? Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely, and and you're there were
some people who go through this process, in this journey
who would rather keep it private, keep it to themselves,
and if that's their journey, that's the way you want
to do it. Absolutely. Yeah, you've been very vocal about it.
I have, and what motivates you to be vocal about it.
(04:18):
I made a decision coming out of rehab and I was,
you know, twenty five years old, had no idea what
I was gonna do. I felt like my life was
over at twenty five. I was like, oh no, I've
missed the boat, like you know, it's gone. And I
came back home and I decided, you know what, I'm
gonna tell my truth. I didn't have very many fans.
(04:38):
It was just basically a local scene, and I was like,
I need to be honest about who I am and
what I'm going through. And at this time in two
thousand and eight, the idea of rehab, of mental health,
of actually seeking therapy like these weren't commonplace conversations that
we were having, and I wanted to tell the truth.
I wanted to be myself. I wanted to say, you
(04:59):
know what, I'm trying to lessen the disease of addiction,
the stigma around it. I need to tell my truth
because if I'm a secret, then I'm sick. And isn't
there something in it for you as well? When you
tell your truth as far as rehabbing yourself. Yeah, I
get to watch the therapeutic value of one addict to
another and the frequency that happens when we're honest. And
(05:21):
there's something that you know that changes in the room
when someone lets other people in on who they really
are and what they're going through. And then people are like,
oh wow, they did it, They got vulnerable, they got real.
I can be myself too, and it's contiguous. And when
someone says to you, you're the reason why I am sober,
I'm clean, you got me through it. I mean that
(05:42):
must make you feel so amazing. It's the best. It really,
it is the best, because I know those people in
my life that got me clean, or those songs that resonated,
that spoke to my spirit and made me want to
change my life. Art music especially has the hour to heal,
to transform into change. Amen. I love that. Look, you know,
(06:04):
and if anyone ever came to me and said, you
know what, thank you for inspiring me to do this,
you were the reason I would alsay say, well, no,
you're actually the reason where you are today. It was
a partnership, if you want to call it. Absolutely. I mean,
to me, the music is much bigger than you. Try
to be a conduit and get out of the way
and let the pen be guided by something else. That's
the goal. I think the honesty part is so important
(06:27):
because like you obviously talk about your recovery journey, but
you talk about your slips too, and a lot of
people going through recovery aren't willing to talk about that,
and they feel like a failure, like if I slipped,
I'm not going to be able to do this again.
And you are very much proof that if you do slip,
you can do it again. And you actually made a
huge difference to a very personal friend of mine and
I love that. So starting over one of the greatest
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songs that has ever existed. Thank you so much. I
appreciate that. I love these moments we're having. If we
could just dim the nights and turn this into it,
I want to turn this into a nude encounter gren
what iscamore is looking? Good? Man? My body had two children.
You don't want to turn the lights down, take your
clothes off, and then use flashlights. Anyway, we are celebrating
(07:11):
the fact that his album Ben is out tonight at eleven.
But we're gonna we're gonna blow the load in a
few minutes. We're gonna play some of it for you.
So I hang out. So what do you? What are
your two favorite Macalmore songs? Okay, starting Over, I just
told you why not funny? She didn't have to think
about it. No, I know, yeah, I'm ready starting Over
And good Old Days with Kesha. I love that song
so much, and I wish people would just listen to
(07:32):
the lyrics and really take that to heart, because you
know it happens. They just go right past you and
you don't realize you're in them. Does it piss you off?
And people say, oh thrift Shop all the way. I'm like, god, man,
we gotta go, we gotta go deeper. Come on. I
love thrift Shot. Come on, do you perform it? Oh? Yeah, okay,
I mean I love thirs Shot too. Thirs Shot changed
my life and I always love thirst Shot. It just
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became really, really, really big, and at a certain point
it was like, you know, yeah, I got more records
than this guy. And luckily, uh you know, Can't Hold
Us came after that, so it was it was great.
I can tell you when we had Cia on one time.
One of my favorite stories about Cia. She had done
the demo for a plutanium titanium and she gave them.
(08:16):
It was at Ghetta. I don't know he gave. She
gave the producer here's here's the demo of me singing it.
You know, go go find you a sing or whatever,
and he used her instead. I said, well, did that
piss you off? She said, it bought me two houses.
Can be pissed off at that? So thrift shop has
bought you a couple of houses. As it is. So
you were at the New York Knicks game last night.
Your feet were on the wood. Oh they were there,
(08:38):
Spike Lee, Tracy Morgan, right, the whole thing. Now, you
know how it is when you when you go to
the any game and your feet are on the wood
and you're you're right there on whatever they call that,
of course, of course they call and then they called
it superstar row or one of those celebrity rows. So
you're sitting there just watching the game. Mine in your
business and then all of a sudden, there's a camera
in your face. Yes, and you're you're like, oh crap,
(08:59):
I'm about to be a on that screen. Yeah, Like deal,
what do you think? What's it like when there's a
camera up your nose and you're just there to watch
a game? You know, the Knicks were so hospitable last
night and they were on fire last night, and they
were on fire. The whole team at the Knicks was amazing.
M Liaison. Everyone killed it. But yeah, you get the
(09:19):
camera and you know it's coming here. It's not just
like it catches you. They're like, all right, we're gonna
set up and they're setting up an angle like that
and you're like, oh man, can you lower it? And
you raise that just one foot? I know my angle? Um.
But it's fun and that's part of it. You know
that you know you're gonna get taken care of it
the game, but they're also going to show you on
that screen, all right. I was at the Saint John's
(09:41):
game a couple of weeks ago, and I got to
sit down on the court side at the garden at
the Garden and one of the players on the other
team fell almost on my lap and the mom and
me I almost got up, was like, are you okay?
Like I really wanted to check on it. It's not
a lot for me to sit in my seat and
not do that because I knew exactly crazy know. When
they were gearing up to go live, I felt probably
(10:05):
more nervous than I have in the last like five
years performing. Isn't it? We're why is I don't know?
I don't know, But all of a sudden my feet
started to move a lot, and I'm like, why am
I moving? My feet? Are seeing my feet move? Is
this on the jumbo tron? Your leg was bouncing? Yes?
Isn't that funny? Yep? That's the thing you know when
you when you when you create wonderful art, you do
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it for the art creation sake, but part of it's
having a camera up your nose at Yes it is
anyway again turning us on. This is mack Lamore. Ben
is out tonight his album and we are going to
play a song for you a second, now, is it okay?
If we use and abuse? So at the end of
April you can say, you know if you want okay
(10:46):
where Yes, at the end of April, we're all flying
to my Yorc of Spain. I don't know if you've been. No,
well let me just tell you anyway special we're going
to my York. It is very special. My honeymoon there.
Fell in love with Oh we're gonna stay. That's a
beautiful resort. Wow. And we're gonna and listeners can actually
buy trips and join us. Wow. And part of that
(11:07):
experience is well. Our friend Nile Horn was here yesterday
and I asked him if he would show up you
fly over from York Europe because he lives there. He
said yes, he's actually going to perform at our Mayorca trip.
And he said yes, very fast, just letting you know
that quick. It was a quick yes quick, So so nice,
Gan Gandhi's there something you want to ask? Mc lamore?
(11:28):
Will you come with us too? Will you join us
in my Orca? Are you serious? Please? Are you serious?
But yeah, you have to perform. I don't think I'm
just hitting a tan out there. Okay, I know the
whole flashlight thing in the dark we're getting at Uh. Yes, absolutely,
that would be amazing. When is it you obviously that's
(11:52):
one sentence, yes, absolutely, When is it period? I heard
the yes it doesn't matter what it is. Twenty six
to the thirtieth day? Is he opened twenty six? He's
open my arcas Spain. Let me tell the Spanish they
do it right, man. Everything's so beautiful to play. Okay,
(12:13):
did that really just happen? From now on, everyone who
walks with the door will be asked to come into
my arcre. If they say no, we'll blow a bowling
ball up their butts for Maclamore. Is I'm serious? Uh? Oh,
you're lucky you're not sitting in the in the cannon chair.
Here's this? This is Alex Hi Alex, Oh my god,
(12:36):
Oh my god. High how's everything in beautiful Lancaster, Pennsylvania?
Cloudy and overcast and growth? Okay, well, there's gotta be
something good about Lancaster. We got Amish. We love the Amish.
I mean they're drive by. Shootings are very slow. Now, Alex,
you you saw Maclamore on tour with Imagine Dragons at Hersheet?
(12:59):
How is that? Yes? Last summer it was so much fun.
Your set was too short. Guys don't like you. Guys
don't like it when women say that that was perfect. Okay,
So what they say in music wonder sometimes they say,
you know, leave him wanting more. But so it's okay
(13:22):
to lodger complaint, go ahead complain. No, it was. It
was so much fun and the crowd was so pumped
with with the hit after hit after hit after hit,
and then just that great speech you gave to everybody,
to the crowd and like we just wanted more. Thank you.
It was like hershey is a special place. I don't
know if it's just my affinity for chocolate, but her
(13:47):
TikTok watching you give the security guards a hard time.
Oh yeah, that was amazing. We had a good time. Well,
I'm glad that she liked it. Next time I come
back to her, she we're gonna add some minutes onto
the set. Yes, you a single tour? Wait, what was
the of course he does? Well, it's tomorrow. Well maybe
there's some news tomorrow. I don't know. Oh, I don't know.
(14:08):
Oh my god. Management just crack and panchion today today. Okay,
we're breaking all sorts of laws, Alex. Wait to say,
you said he gave a great speech. What was it
about and what was it about it that moved you? Well,
it's it was a lot about love, like this country
and this world. We just need love and to support
and give it to everybody. You never know what someone's
(14:31):
going through. And I mean, that's what I took from it. Yeah,
that was last summer. That's a lot elvis I got.
I don't know what I said yesterday, but that was good.
That was a good recap. Take that one and that
and that is what it's about. So that's great. I'm
glad that you were I'm glad that you were moved
in a certain capacity enough to call into it to
(14:51):
Z one hundred. That's amazing. Thank you, Alex. Oh my gosh,
I'm I love you guys. Can I just say how
great her phone connection? Yeah, you have a great phone
connect from a tech geeky thing. Anyway, thank you, Alex
told me to do I thought my ear. Yeah all right, Alex,
thank you very much. You know what it's it's gotta
it's gonna be great to get feedback, uh saying, hey,
(15:13):
you really move me and you know, I don't know
what I said that night, but obviously you trust yourself
enough to know you said something or right. Yeah, and
really cool. Yeah, I mean you try to be in
the moment and connect with the crowd. That's that's that's
the best part of the job. So with Ben coming
out tonight, Yeah, what what journey are you on with
this with this album? If? If there is an answer
(15:34):
to that. Each album is different, Each album is different.
Each album is a chapter and era of life, and
you accumulate experiences and you put that into the art.
And this one was different because we had extra time
with COVID. I didn't want to put out anything into
the world that I wasn't able to then go and
get in front of the people tour connect and so
we made a lot of songs, a lot of songs,
(15:56):
and hopefully COVID in the rearview mirror mostly at this point.
But what good came out of COVID in your opinion
as far as being an artist and a creator of art? Wow?
Other than time you already said that, yeah, time, I
can't use that again. I will say this. I think
that it forced us all to slow down and kind
(16:21):
of readjust to what really matters in life. And I
got back with my family and this is and this
does have to do with art. I got back with
my family and was you know, wow, I get to
actually be with my kids in this time period where
I would have, you know, intermittently been in and out.
I got to really know my my youngest daughter, Colette
(16:42):
in a different way than I would have. That all
turned into art, that connection there turned into songs, and
I think that that was a big blessing. Wow. Of
course No Bad Days featuring Colette another favorite song, right, yeah, yeah,
look at that? Isn't your video or something so Cooled
(17:02):
is also the name of my daughter, but it's also
the name of the singer on the song. Coincidentally, but
Sloan is Alan is directing the video. Yes, it comes
out tomorrow. It's um. I had no idea what to
do with the with the video. I've always I've made
songs like we're making Downtown. We're immediately like, yo, what
if we did this? Or we're making thrift Shop, and
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I'm thinking of spots to shoot. I see videos right away.
With No Bad Days, I was like, I just don't
see a video. I kept seeing Good Old Days video
in my head as the song was playing, and I'm like,
I don't want to do that again. And then finally
I procrastinated a long enough to be like, you know
what two weeks out Sloan would you direct a video
for me and she cried. I didn't know. I had
(17:45):
no idea. She cried, and then she was like, wait,
what does the director do again? But we had so
much fun. I mean, just to be able to have
it experience with my seven year old super special. She
killed it and it comes out tomorrow, excited for the
world to see it. So there's moments with your family
during COVID. It's it's great to kind of hang on
to that. We learned a lot from that. You know,
a lot of the good stuff. Mac Lamore. I cannot
(18:06):
thank you enough for coming in and giving into all
of our wants and needs every time. Whatever you guys.
Two dollars literally, the sunglasses are nice. Yeah, I see Google,
I see some goods. Two dollars and we'll play your
song just say I want to be in quarters ben uh.
(18:30):
And by the way, we were breaking the song world
preming the song fourteen hours prematurely. Yeah, damn and laws
are being broken on your behalf because we love you
listening to us. Mac Lamore, thank you, and I want
to hear the entire album. We're gonna play the whole
album now, probably no, we'll just play one and we'll
see and when we hang up, we'll actually have to
talk about my York or whether that's a real thing
(18:52):
or not. If it is that, I'm in, Yes, i
am in. You hear it, I'm in. Let's do it.
We're getting heart burst, uh and Ben out tonight and
congratulations on on everything. And you know what, it's just
you just feel good in the room, and thank you
very much for guys are the best. That's a gift,
all right. We gotta play no bad days. No one,
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no one anywhere has ever heard this except for those
who created it. This is Maca Lamarre. You guys are awesome.
You just keep me saying you guys are great. Love
you guys every single day. Elvis Duran in the Morning
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Show
Brand. All right, guys, we have we have several assignments
with Mica Lamart. First of all, you know, his new
album Ben is out tonight and all the music is embargoed.
They're not letting anyone play any music till eleven o'clock tonight.
So we have to talk him into letting us play
a song. Yeah, which is so illegal, but we're gonna do.
(00:22):
You know that in the past, when we've played songs
before they released, we got into we got into big trouble, right, yeah.
But if he gives us permission, then were exactly then
he'll be sued by the record company and we're out
of it. Okay. The other thing we've got to talk
him into is coming to MAJORCA with us. Okay, all right, Oh,
he's outside, Hopefully he's not listening to this. Is he
listening to what we're saying? He's not listening to what
(00:43):
we're saying? Is he? Is he listening to what we're saying? Okay, good, Okay,
bring him in. He'll find out a second Micha Lamar,
he's wearing a live leopard. Is I love? This is beautiful?
Come on in. It's so good to see you. Gosh,
look at you. You're get your grown up. Everybody good
to see you too. You know that kid. Michaelamore now
(01:06):
has a seven year old kid. Crazy crazy. I mean,
when she was born, we're like, oh my god, how
cool would be to have Michaelamore is a dad, and
now she wants to trade me in for somebody else. No,
Taylor Swift, definitely. Yeah, she's seven. She's supposed to be
a little trouble. That's true. You know, she's absolutely a gem.
And then treble twenty minutes later that she realized though,
(01:28):
what dad does. Because I know a lot of celebrities say, yeah,
she doesn't care that I'm Elsa from Frozen, you know, like, yeah, no,
she knows. She gets it now. It's taken about six years,
and finally I became cool the minute that she hit kindergarten.
She was like, oh, you're that guy. I learned that
at school today. Pretend I'm Sloane. Yeah I know I
look a little like her, but pretend I'm daddy. What
(01:52):
do you do? I rap? Okay, yeah, I don't know.
I have to work on that answer. I don't know.
We start working on that. Yeah, okay, Well, so this
is Gandhi I think we here. Last time mack Lamar
was here, I was not here. No, okay, so she's
been here for several years. I'm trying to put the
math together the figure last time you were here, and
it doesn't matter. There's are new studios by the way. Why, Yeah,
this is amazing. We walked in and sell the red. Yeah.
(02:13):
I know Shy every day. And here's Danielle Yes like furniture,
you know. And there's Dave Dyer over there. I love
Dave Dyer. He's the best. All right. So we're gonna
have full disclosure. Yeah, we're gonna talk. We're gonna try
to talk you into a few things. I don't say that.
First of all, your album Ben is out tonight at
(02:34):
eleven o'clock, so that means there's no music. I don't
have music to play from this album. I want to
talk you into allowing us to play a song. And
I know there are legalities, there's licensing issues, but I
want to play it with the feeling. I'm not going
to be sued. The feeling, the feeling about playing unreleased
(02:55):
before the album. Can we even do that? Can we
do that? Can we do that? Come on Dave Day,
We get to call it. Oh, let's do it. Let's
all right, let's do it exclusive, let's do it here. First,
we're gonna we're gonna screw the man. I mean, who
has it recently? Yeah? All right, so okay, so an
(03:16):
unreleased cut, we're gonna premiere the world the world premiere
of which cut are we playing? Do we know? No
bad days? Okay, let's do that one. All right, So
we're okay, So we talked to you into that. Yeah,
should I wait for the other one. We'll wait for
the other one. I would just hit him with everything
right now. Yeah, you know, want to go to someone's
party and they just started asking you for crap? I'm like, no, Well,
(03:36):
I'll save the other one for a moment. Okay, wow, uh,
text have been coming in already. Please let Maclamore know
how important his music was to me and helped save
my life in twenty sixteen, I was in rehab. It
was his music. They kept inspiring me every single day
to keep going and now thanks to him. March eleventh,
eight years clean, eight years sober. Let's give it up
(03:58):
for that? Can we give it out for eight years sober?
That's amazing? Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely, and and you're there were
some people who go through this process, in this journey
who would rather keep it private, keep it to themselves,
and if that's their journey, that's the way you want
to do it. Absolutely. Yeah, you've been very vocal about it.
I have, and what motivates you to be vocal about it.
(04:18):
I made a decision coming out of rehab and I was,
you know, twenty five years old, had no idea what
I was gonna do. I felt like my life was
over at twenty five. I was like, oh no, I've
missed the boat, like you know, it's gone. And I
came back home and I decided, you know what, I'm
gonna tell my truth. I didn't have very many fans.
(04:38):
It was just basically a local scene, and I was like,
I need to be honest about who I am and
what I'm going through. And at this time in two
thousand and eight, the idea of rehab, of mental health,
of actually seeking therapy like these weren't commonplace conversations that
we were having, and I wanted to tell the truth.
I wanted to be myself. I wanted to say, you
(04:59):
know what, I'm trying to lessen the disease of addiction,
the stigma around it. I need to tell my truth
because if I'm a secret, then I'm sick. And isn't
there something in it for you as well? When you
tell your truth as far as rehabbing yourself. Yeah, I
get to watch the therapeutic value of one addict to
another and the frequency that happens when we're honest. And
(05:21):
there's something that you know that changes in the room
when someone lets other people in on who they really
are and what they're going through. And then people are like,
oh wow, they did it, They got vulnerable, they got real.
I can be myself too, and it's contiguous. And when
someone says to you, you're the reason why I am sober,
I'm clean, you got me through it. I mean that
(05:42):
must make you feel so amazing. It's the best. It really,
it is the best, because I know those people in
my life that got me clean, or those songs that resonated,
that spoke to my spirit and made me want to
change my life. Art music especially has the hour to heal,
to transform into change. Amen. I love that. Look, you know,
(06:04):
and if anyone ever came to me and said, you
know what, thank you for inspiring me to do this,
you were the reason I would alsay say, well, no,
you're actually the reason where you are today. It was
a partnership, if you want to call it. Absolutely. I mean,
to me, the music is much bigger than you. Try
to be a conduit and get out of the way
and let the pen be guided by something else. That's
the goal. I think the honesty part is so important
(06:27):
because like you obviously talk about your recovery journey, but
you talk about your slips too, and a lot of
people going through recovery aren't willing to talk about that,
and they feel like a failure, like if I slipped,
I'm not going to be able to do this again.
And you are very much proof that if you do slip,
you can do it again. And you actually made a
huge difference to a very personal friend of mine and
I love that. So starting over one of the greatest
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songs that has ever existed. Thank you so much. I
appreciate that. I love these moments we're having. If we
could just dim the nights and turn this into it,
I want to turn this into a nude encounter gren
what iscamore is looking? Good? Man? My body had two children.
You don't want to turn the lights down, take your
clothes off, and then use flashlights. Anyway, we are celebrating
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the fact that his album Ben is out tonight at eleven.
But we're gonna we're gonna blow the load in a
few minutes. We're gonna play some of it for you.
So I hang out. So what do you? What are
your two favorite Macalmore songs? Okay, starting Over, I just
told you why not funny? She didn't have to think
about it. No, I know, yeah, I'm ready starting Over
And good Old Days with Kesha. I love that song
so much, and I wish people would just listen to
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the lyrics and really take that to heart, because you
know it happens. They just go right past you and
you don't realize you're in them. Does it piss you off?
And people say, oh thrift Shop all the way. I'm like, god, man,
we gotta go, we gotta go deeper. Come on. I
love thrift Shot. Come on, do you perform it? Oh? Yeah, okay,
I mean I love thirs Shot too. Thirs Shot changed
my life and I always love thirst Shot. It just
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became really, really, really big, and at a certain point
it was like, you know, yeah, I got more records
than this guy. And luckily, uh you know, Can't Hold
Us came after that, so it was it was great.
I can tell you when we had Cia on one time.
One of my favorite stories about Cia. She had done
the demo for a plutanium titanium and she gave them.
(08:16):
It was at Ghetta. I don't know he gave. She
gave the producer here's here's the demo of me singing it.
You know, go go find you a sing or whatever,
and he used her instead. I said, well, did that
piss you off? She said, it bought me two houses.
Can be pissed off at that? So thrift shop has
bought you a couple of houses. As it is. So
you were at the New York Knicks game last night.
Your feet were on the wood. Oh they were there,
(08:38):
Spike Lee, Tracy Morgan, right, the whole thing. Now, you
know how it is when you when you go to
the any game and your feet are on the wood
and you're you're right there on whatever they call that,
of course, of course they call and then they called
it superstar row or one of those celebrity rows. So
you're sitting there just watching the game. Mine in your
business and then all of a sudden, there's a camera
in your face. Yes, and you're you're like, oh crap,
(08:59):
I'm about to be a on that screen. Yeah, Like deal,
what do you think? What's it like when there's a
camera up your nose and you're just there to watch
a game? You know, the Knicks were so hospitable last
night and they were on fire last night, and they
were on fire. The whole team at the Knicks was amazing.
M Liaison. Everyone killed it. But yeah, you get the
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camera and you know it's coming here. It's not just
like it catches you. They're like, all right, we're gonna
set up and they're setting up an angle like that
and you're like, oh man, can you lower it? And
you raise that just one foot? I know my angle? Um.
But it's fun and that's part of it. You know
that you know you're gonna get taken care of it
the game, but they're also going to show you on
that screen, all right. I was at the Saint John's
(09:41):
game a couple of weeks ago, and I got to
sit down on the court side at the garden at
the Garden and one of the players on the other
team fell almost on my lap and the mom and
me I almost got up, was like, are you okay?
Like I really wanted to check on it. It's not
a lot for me to sit in my seat and
not do that because I knew exactly crazy know. When
they were gearing up to go live, I felt probably
(10:05):
more nervous than I have in the last like five
years performing. Isn't it? We're why is I don't know?
I don't know, But all of a sudden my feet
started to move a lot, and I'm like, why am
I moving? My feet? Are seeing my feet move? Is
this on the jumbo tron? Your leg was bouncing? Yes?
Isn't that funny? Yep? That's the thing you know when
you when you when you create wonderful art, you do
(10:25):
it for the art creation sake, but part of it's
having a camera up your nose at Yes it is
anyway again turning us on. This is mack Lamore. Ben
is out tonight his album and we are going to
play a song for you a second, now, is it okay?
If we use and abuse? So at the end of
April you can say, you know if you want okay
(10:46):
where Yes, at the end of April, we're all flying
to my Yorc of Spain. I don't know if you've been. No,
well let me just tell you anyway special we're going
to my York. It is very special. My honeymoon there.
Fell in love with Oh we're gonna stay. That's a
beautiful resort. Wow. And we're gonna and listeners can actually
buy trips and join us. Wow. And part of that
(11:07):
experience is well. Our friend Nile Horn was here yesterday
and I asked him if he would show up you
fly over from York Europe because he lives there. He
said yes, he's actually going to perform at our Mayorca trip.
And he said yes, very fast, just letting you know
that quick. It was a quick yes quick, So so nice,
Gan Gandhi's there something you want to ask? Mc lamore?
(11:28):
Will you come with us too? Will you join us
in my Orca? Are you serious? Please? Are you serious?
But yeah, you have to perform. I don't think I'm
just hitting a tan out there. Okay, I know the
whole flashlight thing in the dark we're getting at Uh. Yes, absolutely,
that would be amazing. When is it you obviously that's
(11:52):
one sentence, yes, absolutely, When is it period? I heard
the yes it doesn't matter what it is. Twenty six
to the thirtieth day? Is he opened twenty six? He's
open my arcas Spain. Let me tell the Spanish they
do it right, man. Everything's so beautiful to play. Okay,
(12:13):
did that really just happen? From now on, everyone who
walks with the door will be asked to come into
my arcre. If they say no, we'll blow a bowling
ball up their butts for Maclamore. Is I'm serious? Uh? Oh,
you're lucky you're not sitting in the in the cannon chair.
Here's this? This is Alex Hi Alex, Oh my god,
(12:36):
Oh my god. High how's everything in beautiful Lancaster, Pennsylvania?
Cloudy and overcast and growth? Okay, well, there's gotta be
something good about Lancaster. We got Amish. We love the Amish.
I mean they're drive by. Shootings are very slow. Now, Alex,
you you saw Maclamore on tour with Imagine Dragons at Hersheet?
(12:59):
How is that? Yes? Last summer it was so much fun.
Your set was too short. Guys don't like you. Guys
don't like it when women say that that was perfect. Okay,
So what they say in music wonder sometimes they say,
you know, leave him wanting more. But so it's okay
(13:22):
to lodger complaint, go ahead complain. No, it was. It
was so much fun and the crowd was so pumped
with with the hit after hit after hit after hit,
and then just that great speech you gave to everybody,
to the crowd and like we just wanted more. Thank you.
It was like hershey is a special place. I don't
know if it's just my affinity for chocolate, but her
(13:47):
TikTok watching you give the security guards a hard time.
Oh yeah, that was amazing. We had a good time. Well,
I'm glad that she liked it. Next time I come
back to her, she we're gonna add some minutes onto
the set. Yes, you a single tour? Wait, what was
the of course he does? Well, it's tomorrow. Well maybe
there's some news tomorrow. I don't know. Oh, I don't know.
(14:08):
Oh my god. Management just crack and panchion today today. Okay,
we're breaking all sorts of laws, Alex. Wait to say,
you said he gave a great speech. What was it
about and what was it about it that moved you? Well,
it's it was a lot about love, like this country
and this world. We just need love and to support
and give it to everybody. You never know what someone's
(14:31):
going through. And I mean, that's what I took from it. Yeah,
that was last summer. That's a lot elvis I got.
I don't know what I said yesterday, but that was good.
That was a good recap. Take that one and that
and that is what it's about. So that's great. I'm
glad that you were I'm glad that you were moved
in a certain capacity enough to call into it to
(14:51):
Z one hundred. That's amazing. Thank you, Alex. Oh my gosh,
I'm I love you guys. Can I just say how
great her phone connection? Yeah, you have a great phone
connect from a tech geeky thing. Anyway, thank you, Alex
told me to do I thought my ear. Yeah all right, Alex,
thank you very much. You know what it's it's gotta
it's gonna be great to get feedback, uh saying, hey,
(15:13):
you really move me and you know, I don't know
what I said that night, but obviously you trust yourself
enough to know you said something or right. Yeah, and
really cool. Yeah, I mean you try to be in
the moment and connect with the crowd. That's that's that's
the best part of the job. So with Ben coming
out tonight, Yeah, what what journey are you on with
this with this album? If? If there is an answer
(15:34):
to that. Each album is different, Each album is different.
Each album is a chapter and era of life, and
you accumulate experiences and you put that into the art.
And this one was different because we had extra time
with COVID. I didn't want to put out anything into
the world that I wasn't able to then go and
get in front of the people tour connect and so
we made a lot of songs, a lot of songs,
(15:56):
and hopefully COVID in the rearview mirror mostly at this point.
But what good came out of COVID in your opinion
as far as being an artist and a creator of art? Wow?
Other than time you already said that, yeah, time, I
can't use that again. I will say this. I think
that it forced us all to slow down and kind
(16:21):
of readjust to what really matters in life. And I
got back with my family and this is and this
does have to do with art. I got back with
my family and was you know, wow, I get to
actually be with my kids in this time period where
I would have, you know, intermittently been in and out.
I got to really know my my youngest daughter, Colette
(16:42):
in a different way than I would have. That all
turned into art, that connection there turned into songs, and
I think that that was a big blessing. Wow. Of
course No Bad Days featuring Colette another favorite song, right, yeah, yeah,
look at that? Isn't your video or something so Cooled
(17:02):
is also the name of my daughter, but it's also
the name of the singer on the song. Coincidentally, but
Sloan is Alan is directing the video. Yes, it comes
out tomorrow. It's um. I had no idea what to
do with the with the video. I've always I've made
songs like we're making Downtown. We're immediately like, yo, what
if we did this? Or we're making thrift Shop, and
(17:23):
I'm thinking of spots to shoot. I see videos right away.
With No Bad Days, I was like, I just don't
see a video. I kept seeing Good Old Days video
in my head as the song was playing, and I'm like,
I don't want to do that again. And then finally
I procrastinated a long enough to be like, you know
what two weeks out Sloan would you direct a video
for me and she cried. I didn't know. I had
(17:45):
no idea. She cried, and then she was like, wait,
what does the director do again? But we had so
much fun. I mean, just to be able to have
it experience with my seven year old super special. She
killed it and it comes out tomorrow, excited for the
world to see it. So there's moments with your family
during COVID. It's it's great to kind of hang on
to that. We learned a lot from that. You know,
a lot of the good stuff. Mac Lamore. I cannot
(18:06):
thank you enough for coming in and giving into all
of our wants and needs every time. Whatever you guys.
Two dollars literally, the sunglasses are nice. Yeah, I see Google,
I see some goods. Two dollars and we'll play your
song just say I want to be in quarters ben uh.
(18:30):
And by the way, we were breaking the song world
preming the song fourteen hours prematurely. Yeah, damn and laws
are being broken on your behalf because we love you
listening to us. Mac Lamore, thank you, and I want
to hear the entire album. We're gonna play the whole
album now, probably no, we'll just play one and we'll
see and when we hang up, we'll actually have to
talk about my York or whether that's a real thing
(18:52):
or not. If it is that, I'm in, Yes, i
am in. You hear it, I'm in. Let's do it.
We're getting heart burst, uh and Ben out tonight and
congratulations on on everything. And you know what, it's just
you just feel good in the room, and thank you
very much for guys are the best. That's a gift,
all right. We gotta play no bad days. No one,
(19:15):
no one anywhere has ever heard this except for those
who created it. This is Maca Lamarre. You guys are awesome.
You just keep me saying you guys are great. Love
you guys every single day. Elvis Duran in the Morning
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