Macklemore - Downtown - Video

Context?

Remember the summer of 2013? The one where there was no escape from MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS? Thrift Song and Can’t Hold Us were basically everybody’s favourite consensus rap tunes of the summer and pretty much impossible to resist. Global stardom followed and the duo clearly deserved a little break afterwards. And now they decided to end the break in the form of their new music video of Downtown. And if you thought the clips for their 2013 record The Heist were epic… think again. Only bigger.

Why Should I Watch This?

Jesus, where shall we start? Okay, this time it’s less about fashion and your grandpa’s clothes (although everybody looks as stylish as possible) but more about mopeds, scooters and crazy bikes. Well, and Downtown, obviously, because that’s where the gang of MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS is heading in their new video. Besides that hip hop legends Grandmaster Caz, Kool Moe Dee and Melle Mel are also joining the duo in this video. The whole clip is packed with a megalomaniac amount of craziness and surely proves why these guys are aiming for the pop throne in 2015. We can’t blame them and from time to time it’s nice to have a few remaining artists to really think big in an old MTV/90s scale. Plus, the tune is quite catchy as well.

Anything Else?

No words yet on when to expect the official follow-up to The Heist but an announcement is in the air. You can catch MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS during their remaining summer shows like the Lollapalooza in Berlin, for example.

Alternative video link right here.

MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS