What: A surprise SoundCloud release with no promotion whatsoever, just Ben and Ryan fooling around over some classic ’90s beats. That means there’s still ample opportunity for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to go in any number of directions with their next album, to explore new territory, or at least approach the old territory in new ways - anything to remind the public of their more endearing qualities, while submerging those traits that became gradually intolerable with the group’s ridiculous over-exposure in 2013.Īlso Read New Music: Macklemore – “Drug Dealer” It’s not billed as the lead single from their still-untitled, still-unscheduled Heist follow-up for all we know, it won’t even be on the final track list. It’s unlikely to change the conversation about them much, a switch-up the twosome probably would be very grateful for, considering what we were talking about the last time we heard from Lewis and Haggerty.īut more than anything, “Growing Up” is a palate cleanser, a way to gently re-introduce the pair to the public consciousness via a subject matter that could not possibly be considered problematic by anyone. “Growing Up” traffics in the same kind of sepia-toned, heartstring-tugging balladry as “Same Love,” the most divisive, love-it-or-thinkpiece-it single from their breakthrough LP, 2012’s The Heist. It is a very nice and sweet song that will change precisely zero people’s opinions about the hip-hop duo. Yesterday, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis released their first brand-new music in years: “Growing Up (Sloane’s Song),” an ode to the rapper born Ben Haggerty’s two-month-old daughter, laid over low-slung guitar, warm, Sunday morning piano and an “Impeach the President”-type drum stroll.
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