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Macklemore owns a 3,765 square foot (about 350 square meters) house in North Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington. It cost him $2.1 million.<\/p>\n
His assets also include a self-proclaimed bizarre art collection that includes what he described in Rolling Stone in 2016 as \u201ca kitschy velvet painting of a bald eagle, and oil painting of Drake dancing, and a transfixing rendition of a naked Justin Bieber with maple syrup pouring down his chest onto a pancake\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Who is Macklemore?<\/h2>\n
Macklemore is an American rap artist whose actual name is Benjamin Hammond Haggerty. He used to go by the stage name Professor Macklemore.<\/p>\n
He often collaborates with a partner, Ryan Lewis, and together they\u2019ve released a number of successful albums and EPs. He and Lewis have together won numerous Grammys and other music industry accolades.<\/p>\n
Macklemore\u2019s Career<\/h2>\n![\"Macklemore's](\"https:\/\/www.networthinformer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shutterstock_552647464.jpg\")
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Macklemore, like benny blanco<\/a>, is a young titan of the music industry. At the start of Macklemore\u2019s professional rap career, he went by the moniker of Professor Macklemore. He released a mixtape under this name in 2000, which he called Open Your Eyes, and put out himself, without the backing of a major label.<\/p>\nOver time, he eventually let go of the \u201cProfessor\u201d and started going by just Macklemore before the release of The Language of My World<\/em>, his first full album, which came out on New Year\u2019s Day in 2005. The first single was called \u201cLove Song\u201d and was a duet between him and a singer named Evan Roman. The album\u2019s producer was Budo, who would be with him many times in the future.<\/p>\nAs his music career continued to grow, he played Bumbershoot, the huge music festival in Seattle, Washington, that year, and would return twice more over the years as a performer.<\/p>\n
He released his next album, The Unplanned Mixtape<\/em>, in 2009. It would prove to be a modest success, climbing to the top 10 on iTunes\u2019 Hip Hop charts not long after that. The two singles off that album were \u201cAnd We Danced\u201d and \u201cThe Town\u201d. Macklemore also appeared on a song by a group called The Physics that same year.<\/p>\nIn 2006, Macklemore had become close with rapper Ryan Lewis, and they remained best friends until they finally decided to form a group together in 2009. Calling themselves Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, they put out their first EP, which they named The VS. EP, which featured six songs. Early on in the next year, they released a single called \u201cStay At Home Dad\u201d which had been cut from the album.<\/p>\n
The end of 2010 saw the release of yet another EP, this one entitled VS. Redux<\/em>. It featured a number of very successful songs. \u201cOtherside,\u201d for example, was a deeply personal song for Macklemore that went into the various problems he had over the years with abusing drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\nThe song is built off of a sample of a famous Red Hot Chili Peppers track that had the same name.<\/p>\n
One of the group\u2019s early big successes was performing \u201cOtherside\u201d at the Mariners Opening Day in 2011 before an enormous audience of around 48,000 people. From that point on, they set off on a tour of their music and played a number of big festivals, including SoundSet, Rock the Bells, Bonnaroo, and perhaps most impressively, Lollapalooza.<\/p>\n
By the latter part of the next year, they had finally released their first full-length album. It was called The Heist<\/em> and was an immediate success, largely in part due to the popularity they had built with their EPs and live appearances.<\/p>\nThe week it came out, it hit second place on the Billboard 200 in the United States, thanks to moving over 78,000 units.<\/p>\n
The first two singles were \u201cWings\u201d and \u201cCan\u2019t Hold Us\u201d. Arguably the most famous song from the album, however, is the third single, \u201cSame Love,\u201d a track that promotes the cause of gay rights and was inspired by Macklemore\u2019s much-loved uncle, John, and Sean, his beloved husband.<\/p>\n
It was recorded to help support the campaign for a referendum in Washington State to make same-sex marriage finally legal. It was a huge success, both as a campaign and a song, making the 11th<\/sup> spot on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100 in the US and first place in New Zealand and Australia.<\/p>\nIt also got a Song of the Year nomination at the 56th<\/sup> Grammys. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis performed it on the broadcast to great acclaim. After that, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis set out The Heist World Tour, another huge achievement for the duo.<\/p>\nFour years later, in 2016, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis finally released their second album together, called This Unruly Mess I\u2019ve Made<\/em>. They\u2019d released a few of the singles the year before, including one called \u201cDowntown\u201d and a song with Ed Sheeran called \u201cGrowing Up (Sloane\u2019s Song)\u201d. They also promoted the new album with a tour called An Evening with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.<\/p>\nAlthough the album did well, debuting in the 4th<\/sup> spot on Billboard, the two friends decided to take a break from their group afterward. Macklemore released a few singles on his own, including \u201cDrug Dealer,\u201d another look at his drug abuse in the past.<\/p>\nHe also discussed drug abuse in an interview with President Obama. Clips from this talk were used in a documentary along with the song.<\/p>\n
The following year, Macklemore announced the release of Gemini<\/em>, his second solo album (his fourth overall, counting his collaborations with Ryan Lewis). The first single was called \u201cGlorious\u201d and was a duet with Skylar Grey. The two singles to follow her \u201cGood Old Days\u201d and \u201cMarmalade\u201d.<\/p>\nGemini garnered Macklemore some of the best reviews of his career and hit number 2 in the US Billboard 200, as well as first place in their Independent Albums chart.<\/p>\n
Macklemore then took another strong political stance by performing \u201cSame Love\u201d in Sydney, Australia at a major rugby game, in order to voice his support for the passing of gay marriage rights in Australia.<\/p>\n
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Macklemore: Early Life<\/h2>\n![\"Macklemore's](\"https:\/\/www.networthinformer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Macklemores-Net-Worth.jpg\")
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Macklemore was born Benjamin Hammond Haggerty on 19 June 1983, in Seattle, Washington. He grew up in Seattle and became obsessed with hip hop music at a young age. When he was 6 years old, he discovered a hip hop group called Digital Underground which began his interest in the genre.<\/p>\n
From the age of 6 to 14, his love of hip hop continued to blossom, and he started writing songs at 15. He also began singing, and drew on the influence of groups and artists such as Wu-Tang Clan, Freestyle Fellowship, and Nas.<\/p>\n
As a teenager, he went first to Garfield High School and then Nathan Hale High School. While there, he joined a volunteer program that was entitled \u201cGateways for Incarcerated Youth\u201d, whose purpose was to help young people with criminal records find a pathway out. He ran workshops for them involving music, hoping to inspire change in these troubled youths.<\/p>\n
It was at this young age that he first assumed his early \u201cProfessor Macklemore\u201d persona, albeit here it was for a class project in an art class, and the \u201cProfessor Macklemore\u201d in question was a superhero. The precious Haggerty even formed a hip-hop music group with some of his friends, which they called the Elevated Elements.<\/p>\n
They even made an album, Progress<\/em>, which can be seen as setting for the groundwork for all of the independently released albums he\u2019d go on to make in his career as an extremely successful professional music artist.<\/p>\nAfter finishing high school, Macklemore attended the College of Santa Fe. Although he only remained there for a single year, he clearly got some very good things out of the experience. In an interview after becoming famous, he clarified that it was \u201ca very pivotal time in a lot of ways. Santa Fe was the place where I got good at rapping.\u201d<\/p>\n
He had applied to join the music program, however, but failed to make the cut, which is the reason he returned to Seattle, ultimately finishing his degree at the Evergreen State College in 2009.<\/p>\n
Macklemore\u2019s Personal Life and Family<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/p>\n
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Macklemore, like benny blanco<\/a>, is a young titan of the music industry. At the start of Macklemore\u2019s professional rap career, he went by the moniker of Professor Macklemore. He released a mixtape under this name in 2000, which he called Open Your Eyes, and put out himself, without the backing of a major label.<\/p>\n Over time, he eventually let go of the \u201cProfessor\u201d and started going by just Macklemore before the release of The Language of My World<\/em>, his first full album, which came out on New Year\u2019s Day in 2005. The first single was called \u201cLove Song\u201d and was a duet between him and a singer named Evan Roman. The album\u2019s producer was Budo, who would be with him many times in the future.<\/p>\n As his music career continued to grow, he played Bumbershoot, the huge music festival in Seattle, Washington, that year, and would return twice more over the years as a performer.<\/p>\n He released his next album, The Unplanned Mixtape<\/em>, in 2009. It would prove to be a modest success, climbing to the top 10 on iTunes\u2019 Hip Hop charts not long after that. The two singles off that album were \u201cAnd We Danced\u201d and \u201cThe Town\u201d. Macklemore also appeared on a song by a group called The Physics that same year.<\/p>\n In 2006, Macklemore had become close with rapper Ryan Lewis, and they remained best friends until they finally decided to form a group together in 2009. Calling themselves Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, they put out their first EP, which they named The VS. EP, which featured six songs. Early on in the next year, they released a single called \u201cStay At Home Dad\u201d which had been cut from the album.<\/p>\n The end of 2010 saw the release of yet another EP, this one entitled VS. Redux<\/em>. It featured a number of very successful songs. \u201cOtherside,\u201d for example, was a deeply personal song for Macklemore that went into the various problems he had over the years with abusing drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n The song is built off of a sample of a famous Red Hot Chili Peppers track that had the same name.<\/p>\n One of the group\u2019s early big successes was performing \u201cOtherside\u201d at the Mariners Opening Day in 2011 before an enormous audience of around 48,000 people. From that point on, they set off on a tour of their music and played a number of big festivals, including SoundSet, Rock the Bells, Bonnaroo, and perhaps most impressively, Lollapalooza.<\/p>\n By the latter part of the next year, they had finally released their first full-length album. It was called The Heist<\/em> and was an immediate success, largely in part due to the popularity they had built with their EPs and live appearances.<\/p>\n The week it came out, it hit second place on the Billboard 200 in the United States, thanks to moving over 78,000 units.<\/p>\n The first two singles were \u201cWings\u201d and \u201cCan\u2019t Hold Us\u201d. Arguably the most famous song from the album, however, is the third single, \u201cSame Love,\u201d a track that promotes the cause of gay rights and was inspired by Macklemore\u2019s much-loved uncle, John, and Sean, his beloved husband.<\/p>\n It was recorded to help support the campaign for a referendum in Washington State to make same-sex marriage finally legal. It was a huge success, both as a campaign and a song, making the 11th<\/sup> spot on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100 in the US and first place in New Zealand and Australia.<\/p>\n It also got a Song of the Year nomination at the 56th<\/sup> Grammys. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis performed it on the broadcast to great acclaim. After that, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis set out The Heist World Tour, another huge achievement for the duo.<\/p>\n Four years later, in 2016, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis finally released their second album together, called This Unruly Mess I\u2019ve Made<\/em>. They\u2019d released a few of the singles the year before, including one called \u201cDowntown\u201d and a song with Ed Sheeran called \u201cGrowing Up (Sloane\u2019s Song)\u201d. They also promoted the new album with a tour called An Evening with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.<\/p>\n Although the album did well, debuting in the 4th<\/sup> spot on Billboard, the two friends decided to take a break from their group afterward. Macklemore released a few singles on his own, including \u201cDrug Dealer,\u201d another look at his drug abuse in the past.<\/p>\n He also discussed drug abuse in an interview with President Obama. Clips from this talk were used in a documentary along with the song.<\/p>\n The following year, Macklemore announced the release of Gemini<\/em>, his second solo album (his fourth overall, counting his collaborations with Ryan Lewis). The first single was called \u201cGlorious\u201d and was a duet with Skylar Grey. The two singles to follow her \u201cGood Old Days\u201d and \u201cMarmalade\u201d.<\/p>\n Gemini garnered Macklemore some of the best reviews of his career and hit number 2 in the US Billboard 200, as well as first place in their Independent Albums chart.<\/p>\n Macklemore then took another strong political stance by performing \u201cSame Love\u201d in Sydney, Australia at a major rugby game, in order to voice his support for the passing of gay marriage rights in Australia.<\/p>\n Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Blac Youngsta Net Worth \u2013 How Much Does He Make?<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image credit: Ga Fullner \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n Macklemore was born Benjamin Hammond Haggerty on 19 June 1983, in Seattle, Washington. He grew up in Seattle and became obsessed with hip hop music at a young age. When he was 6 years old, he discovered a hip hop group called Digital Underground which began his interest in the genre.<\/p>\n From the age of 6 to 14, his love of hip hop continued to blossom, and he started writing songs at 15. He also began singing, and drew on the influence of groups and artists such as Wu-Tang Clan, Freestyle Fellowship, and Nas.<\/p>\n As a teenager, he went first to Garfield High School and then Nathan Hale High School. While there, he joined a volunteer program that was entitled \u201cGateways for Incarcerated Youth\u201d, whose purpose was to help young people with criminal records find a pathway out. He ran workshops for them involving music, hoping to inspire change in these troubled youths.<\/p>\n It was at this young age that he first assumed his early \u201cProfessor Macklemore\u201d persona, albeit here it was for a class project in an art class, and the \u201cProfessor Macklemore\u201d in question was a superhero. The precious Haggerty even formed a hip-hop music group with some of his friends, which they called the Elevated Elements.<\/p>\n They even made an album, Progress<\/em>, which can be seen as setting for the groundwork for all of the independently released albums he\u2019d go on to make in his career as an extremely successful professional music artist.<\/p>\n After finishing high school, Macklemore attended the College of Santa Fe. Although he only remained there for a single year, he clearly got some very good things out of the experience. In an interview after becoming famous, he clarified that it was \u201ca very pivotal time in a lot of ways. Santa Fe was the place where I got good at rapping.\u201d<\/p>\n He had applied to join the music program, however, but failed to make the cut, which is the reason he returned to Seattle, ultimately finishing his degree at the Evergreen State College in 2009.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A post shared by @macklemore<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\nMacklemore: Early Life<\/h2>\n
Macklemore\u2019s Personal Life and Family<\/h2>\n
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