![]() Golf, as it has for millions, especially in the pandemic, has become a sanctuary. Macklemore has discovered something in golf he couldn’t get from hip-hop, or from being a pop-culture celebrity figure, or from being the face of Emerald City relevance. They are the byproduct of Macklemore’s new love affair with golf and how the game has proven itself to be once again a partner in mental wellness. But now it’s high-end vintage.īut the clothes aren’t exclusively about nostalgia. The same pastel color schemes, the same sharp creases in the pants, the same ‘70s pattern obsession. That Ben fella is grown now, those hip-hop-head roots having blossomed into, as he proclaimed on the song “Willy Wonka” featuring Offset, “a motherfuckin’ icon, boots made of python.” And his new line of threads reflects the come-up. The fashion is fused with the spirit of the young adult Macklemore who would show up to the juvenile detention facility in Chehalis with instrumental beats, dressed like a poor man’s Payne Stewart while helping incarcerated youth alter their paradigms through rap. Bogey Boys is definitely part homage to that kid drinking 40s around the way on Capitol Hill. So there is a bit of irony, or prophecy fulfillment, with him now having his own golf clothing line. You could find him posted up, dressed like an extra from the movie “Happy Gilmore” while smoking weed behind the high school gym. His pastime back then was going to thrift shops in the Seattle area, buying old golfer pants and sweaters. He was about 17 when he coined himself Professor Macklemore. No, for real, ask your grandpa / C an I have his hand-me-downs?īen Haggerty was about six years old when the West Coast was doing the Humpty Hump and introducing him to hip-hop. I’ma take your grandpa’s style / I’ma take your grandpa’s style Savin’ my money and / I’m hella happy that’s a bargain Passin’ up on those moccasins/ S omeone else has been walking inīummy and grungy, fuck it man / I am stuntin’ and flossin’ and (Jordan Jimenez / Special to The Athletic)Ĭoppin’ it, washin’ it / ‘ Bout to go and get some compliments Those seconds of liberation when strategy and execution and discipline must surrender to the elements and the sovereignty of their whims. Right now, it’s about those moments of serenity as the ball soars with wings of ambition. ![]() It was flush in the middle of the green.īut it’s not so much about where it lands, not yet for the new convert to golf obsession. His face flashed a should-be-fine smirk though he couldn’t see where it landed.Īs he pulled up to the green, parking behind a bunker, he could see his ball. He switched clubs and took another hack, lofting the ball out of the shadow of the trees and towards the flag. He was the only one playing, so Macklemore was leisure in pace. When you’re wearing a powder blue and cream cardigan, with matching powder blue slacks, chill is the vibe. Not even when he discovered his ball left of the fairway on the perfectly brown dirt, spattered with earthy debris of twigs, rocks and pine cone fragments. The curving second shot produced no frustration in Macklemore. It again caromed off another towering evergreen conifer. He took another cut, the ball again disappearing into the California heavens. This time, the blood orange flag in the distance was visible as he pulled out an iron. Seattle’s rap star grinned at his fortune as he parked his cart next to where his tee shot landed. It banked off a tree, cracking the silence, and bouncing onto the edge of the fairway. The uncertainty of his ball’s flight was answered by a loud thud. The ball soared, bending left suddenly as if its GPS glitched, disappearing into the pale blue sky. Starting Over (feat.After a few practice swipes, he stood over the ball, reared the club back and smacked it. ![]() Paak) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Idris Elba, Anderson. Ed Sheeran) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Ed Sheeran Mary Lambert) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Mary Lambert
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