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Macklemore: Why He Never Signed to a Label, His Struggle with Addiction, and Making Art that Means Something

The Great Creators with Guy Raz

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The Concept of Thrift Shop

I've always been someone that has been driven by concepts. What is the concept of this song? Thrift Shop was one of those that slowly wrote it. Ryan had played me that beat that was Can't Hold Us years before I wrote to it. He had that back in his parents basement before we had a studio together. It's probably in, you know, 25% of spin classes on a daily basis. And that's what it turned into.

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