Macklemore: Why He Never Signed to a Label, His Struggle with Addiction, and Making Art that Means Something
The Great Creators with Guy Raz
The Thrift Shop Hit Number One
"Thrift Shop went viral. It started out, you know, I don't know, we got a hundred thousand plays the first day or something like that," he says. "And every day it'd be like, yo, do you know the thrift shop? Like we went up by a million today." The song was doing well on alternative radio before Warner came in and killed it.
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