Ryan Lewis & Macklemore

I remember seeing Macklemore with Xperience in Olympia, Washington at Evergreen Community College a couple years back. XP and Macklemore make up the group Step Cousins. They were opening up for Blue Scholars. I was feeling it but I hadn't really heard much about Macklemore at the time. I was a junior or senior in high school and just getting into hip-hop. I just knew about XP because I had seen him around Olympia since we both lived there at the time. The name Macklemore caught my attention again a couple years later just this last summer at the Bumbershoot Music Festival in Seattle. Unfortunately, I missed his set which I'm going to blame on my friend Blake just for kicks. Anyway, after that someone posted a Macklemore video on Facebook so I thought I would check it out. The song "The Town", off Macklemore's "The Unplanned Mixtape" was fresh but this video (directed by Zia Mohajerjasbi and produced by Ryan Lewis) really caught my eye also. If you like that video, check out the video for Jake One - Home also. Ryan Lewis is a photographer/producer/designer from Seattle. After looking through his website (worthwhile) I found he does a lot of really good shit. I was kind of surprised to see that he did a lot of the photography for one of my favorite current MC's Blu also. Seems like this dude is pretty all around good at what he does. Anyway, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis released "The Vs. EP" (Free download link #1!) not too long ago that is definitely worth a spin. I will post a few things below.

This is off the Macklemore and Lewis "VS. EP":

This is a Ryan Lewis mash-up with Franz Ferdinand and Tupac:

This is Macklemore's "The Town" Video I talked about above:

This is a video Ryan Lewis and Macklemore put together:

That's just a few things. Do some clickin' around.

Download - Macklemore: The Unplanned Mixtape