What do you do when you’re Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, you’ve taken a fairly lengthy break since making it big with “Thrift Shop” in 2012 and want to replicate that success? Well, apparently, first you take the main theme of thrift shop and chuck that in the beginning of your new song to make sure people remember who you are, you jump on the Uptown Funk bandwagon in hopes of riding that trend to number one (the irony of the song being called “Downtown” shouldn’t be lost here), you hide behind 80s hip-hop pioneers Grandmaster Caz, Kool Moe Dee and Melle Mel and throw in Foxy Shazam vocalist Eric Nally to take care of the chorus for you. “Downtown” is the epitome of an “everything but the kitchen sink” production, except maybe the kitchen sink is in there somewhere because the song and video have so much going on that it would be easy to miss it. Continue reading
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