Macklemore has spoken out after chanting “fuck America” at a recent festival in aid of Palestine, saying he wished he had “been in a better place with my grief and anger”.The statement came during a set at the Palestine Will Live Forever Festival in Seattle on Saturday night (September 21).
Days later, the rapper was dropped from the lineup of Las Vegas’ Neon City Festival “due to unforeseen circumstances”.Now, he’s explained his comments in an Instagram post. “My thoughts and feelings are not always expressed perfectly or politely.
Sometimes I slip up and get caught in the moment. Saturday night was one of those times,” he wrote today (September 25). “I strive to always lead with love in an effort to bring people together and never to create more division.”Rapper Macklemore says “F*ck America” in a concert in Seattle.pic.twitter.com/tLP39mNPP1— Defiant World (@DefiantWorld) September 22, 2024 The ‘Same Love’ rapper went on to highlight that the Palestine Will Live Forever festival was “rooted in peace, love and solidarity”, adding that the “historic event” had now become “overshadowed by two words”.“I wish I had been in a better place with my grief and anger.
But the truth is I’m not ok. I haven’t been,” he wrote. “The last 11.5 months of watching a genocide unfold in front of us has been excruciating on a spiritual, emotional and human level.
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