Macklemore getting flak for what some are calling ‘anti-Semitic costume’
May 19, 2014, 8:58 AM | Updated: 9:26 am
Seattle rapper Macklemore is hearing it from the Internet after he played a surprise show at Seattle’s Experience Music Project dressed in a costume some say resemble Jewish stereotypes.
Stranger writer Ansel Herz wrote a blog post Sunday asking “Why Didn’t Anyone Notice Macklemore’s Anti-Semitic Costume at EMP?” And Hollywood actor Seth Rogen even sent out a tweet about it.
.@macklemore, first you trick people into thinking you're a rapper, now you trick them into thinking you're Jewish? pic.twitter.com/3rtaE4GHje
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) May 18, 2014
Macklemore tweeted out a response saying the costume was more of a random composition and not meant to target any specific group.
A fake witches nose, wig, and beard = random costume. Not my idea of a stereotype of anybody.
— Macklemore (@macklemore) May 19, 2014
The rapper was performing the show for the opening of EMP’s new exhibit “Spectacle: The Music Video.”
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