Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

 
Ben Haggerty 1983 június 19-én Seattleben született. Ír származású, ismertebb neve Mackelmore, illetve korábbi neve Professor Macklemore. Amerikai rapper és zenész. Együtt dolgozik Ryan Lewis producerrel. Már 2000 óta zenél önállóan, azóta jelentős internetes rajongótáborra tett szert. Bár nem született zenész családba, szülei támogatták őt zenei vállalkozásaiban. Macklemore 6 éves volt, amikor a hip-hop először megjelent az életében. 14 évesen kezdett dalszövegeket írni. 2000-ben felvett egy elektronikus prezentációt Professzor Macklemore néven, amit ő maga osztott meg. 2005 januárjában kiadta az első, hivatalos albumát, a The Language of My World-öt. 2010 októberében összeállt Ryan Lewis producerrel.
 
Ryan Lewis 1988. március 25.-én született Spokane-ben (Washington, Egyesült Államok). Fiatal korában gitáron játszott, Profi fotós lett és elkezdte fotózni Macklemore-t, 2006 nyarán. Macklemore és Ryan nagyon jó barátok lettek. Ryan már 2006 óta aktívan készít Macklemore-ral műveket. A The VS. EP volt Ryan első albumja. Macklemore és Ryan 2008-ban jöttek össze, hogy kezdődjön a munka. A "Can’t Hold Us” a Miller sör reklámzenéje lett 2012 júniusában Írországban.
 
 

Can't hold us

 
Yah, alright okay,
Return of the mac, get up! What it is does what it is, what it isn't.
ooking for a better way to get up out pf bed.
Instead of getting on the internet and checking a new hit me, get up!
Fresh out pimp strut walking, little bit of humble, little bit of cautious.
Somewhere between like rocky and cosby sweatergang nope, nope y'all can't copy.
Yup. bad, monnwalking, this here, is our party, my posse's been on broadway.
And we did it, our way.
 
Grown music, I shed my skin and put my bones into evryrhing I record to it
And yet I'm on ~
Let that stage light go and shine on down, got that Bob Barker suit game and plinko in my style.
Mmoney, stay on my craft and stick around for those pounds,
But I do that to pass the torch and put on for my town.
Trust me. I'm I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T shit hustler,
Chasing dreams since I was 14 with four track bussing halfaway cross that city with the backpack.
 
Cauntin, labels out here, nah they can't tell me nothing
We give that to the people, spread it across the country.
 
Here we go back, this is the moment,
Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over
So we put our hands up, like the ceiling can't hold us, like the ceiling can't hold us.
Here we go back, this is the moment,
Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over
So we put our hands up, like the ceiling can't hold us, like the ceiling can't hold us.
 
Nah, can I kick it? thank you, yeah. I'm so damn grateful.
I grew up, really wanted gold fronts
But that's what you get when wu tang raised you
Y'all can't stop me, go hard like I got 808 in my heart beat.
And I'm meating at the beat like you gave a little speed to a great white shark on shark week.
Raw, tell me go up. Gone!
 
Deucess goodbye. I got a world to see, and my girl she wanna see Rome
Ceasar will make you a believer. Nah, I never ever did it for a throne.
That valdation comes from giving it back to the people
Nah, sing a song and it goes like.
Raise those hands, this is a party.
We came here to live life like nobody was watching
I got my city right behind me.
If I fall, they got me then from that failure gain humility and then we keep marching ourselves.
 
Here we go back, this is the moment,
Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over
So we put our hands up, like the ceiling can't hold us, like the ceiling can't hold us.
Here we go back, this is the moment,
Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over
So we put our hands up, like the ceiling can't hold us, like the ceiling can't hold us.
 
~Music~
 
Na na na na na na na na
and all my people say.
Na na na na na na na na
and all my people say.
Na na na na na na na na
and all my people say.
Na na na na na na na na
and all my people say.
 
Mack-le-more
 
Here we go back, this is the moment,
Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over
So we put our hands up, like the ceiling can't hold us, like the ceiling can't hold us.
Here we go back, this is the moment,
Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over
So we put our hands up, like the ceiling can't hold us, like the ceiling can't hold us.
 
Here we go back, this is the moment,
Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over
So we put our hands up, like the ceiling can't hold us, like the ceiling can't hold us.
Here we go back, this is the moment,
Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over
So we put our hands up, like the ceiling can't hold us, like the ceiling can't hold us.