Thrift Shop
“Thrift Shop” is a song by Seattle-based American rapper Macklemore and his producer Ryan Lewis. It was released as the fifth and final single from their collaborative debut studio album The Heist (2012) on August 28, 2012 and features vocals from Wanz. Despite being released on Macklemore’s independent label, with distribution by ADA, the single was met with unexpected commercial success, also a sleeper hit, peaking at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, while selling over 5 million copies in total. The song also reached number one in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Canada, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand. The song is the first independently-distributed title to top the Billboard Digital Songs since “We Are the World 25 for Haiti” in February 2010. It is also the second independent song in history to achieve the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, nearly 20 years after Lisa Loeb’s “Stay (I Missed You)” in 1994. A music video was released to accompany the song’s release on August 29, 2012. It was used in the trailer for the film Pain and Gain.
Macklemore Thrift Shop lyrics
I’m gonna pop some tags
Only got twenty dollars in my pocket
I-I-I’m huntin’
Lookin for a come up
This is fucking awesome
Now, walk into the club like, “what up I got a big cock”
I’m so pumped I bought some shit from a thrift shop
Ice in the fringe is so damn frosty
The people like “Damn, that’s a cold ass honkey!”
Rollin’ in hella deep, headed to the mezzanine
Dressed in all pink, ‘cept my gator shoes those are green
Draped in a leopard mink, girls standin’ next to me
Probably shoulda washed this, smells like R. Kelly’s sheets
Pissssssssss
But shit it was ninety nine cents (bag it)
Copin’ it washin’ it
Bout to go and get some compliments passin’ off on those moccasins
Someone else has been walkin’ in but me and grungie fuck ’em in
I am stuntin’ and flossin’ and
Savin my money and I’m hella happy that’s a bargain, bitch
I’mma take your grandpa’s style, I’mma take your grandpa’s style,
No for real ask your grandpa can I have his hand-me-downs (Thank you)
Velour jump suit and some house slippers
Dookie brown leather jacket that I found diggin’
They had a broken keyboard I bought a broken keyboard
I bought a skeet blanket, then I bought a kneeboard
Hello, hello, my ace man my mello
John Wayne ain’t got nothin’ on my fringe game
Hell no
I can take some pro wings, make ’em cool, sell those
The sneaker heads will be like
“Ahhh he got the velcro”
I’m gonna pop some tags
Only got twenty dollars in my pocket
I-I-I’m huntin’
Lookin’ for a come up
This is fucking awesome
I’m gonna pop some tags
Only got twenty dollars in my pocket
I-I-I’m huntin’
Lookin’ for a come up
This is fucking awesome
Whatcha know bout rockin’ a wolf on your noggin
Whatcha knowin about wearin’ a fur fox skin
I’m diggin’, I’m diggin’, I’m searching right through that luggage
One mans trash that’s another mans come up
Thank your grand dad for donating that plaid button
Up shirt cause right now I’m up in her skirt
I’m at the Goodwill you can find me in the (Uptons)
I’m not, I’m not stuck on searching in that section (Uptons)
Your Grammy, your auntie, your momma, you mammy
I’ll take those flannel zebra jammies secondhand and rock that mothafucka
The built a onesie with the socks on the mothafucka
I hit the party and they stopped in that mothafucka
They be like “oh that’s gucci that’s hella tight”
I’m like “Yo! That’s fifty dollars for a t-shirt”
Limited edition, let’s do some simple addition
Fifty dollars for a t-shirt that’s just some ignorant bitch (sheeeeit)
I call that getting swindled and pimped (sheeeeit)
I call that getting tricked by a business
That shirt’s hella dough
And havin the same one as six other people in this club is a hella don’t
Peep game come take a look through my telescope
Tryin’a get girls with my brand man you hella won’t
Man you hella won’t
I’m gonna pop some tags
Only got twenty dollars in my pocket
I-I-I’m huntin’
Lookin’ for a come up
This is fucking awesome
I’ll wear your granddads clothes,
I look incredible
I’m in this big ass coat
From the thrift shop down the road
Ben Haggerty (born June 19, 1983), known by his stage name Macklemore and formerly Professor Macklemore, is an American rapper and musician. He began independently releasing music in 2000 and now collaborates with producer Ryan Lewis, violinist Andrew Joslyn, and trumpeter Owuor Arunga. He has gained a significant online fanbase. He has released one mixtape, three EPs and two albums, although none on a major record label. His music video “Thrift Shop” has been viewed on YouTube more than 250 million times, and reached number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, selling more than 2.2 million copies.
Macklemore released his debut studio album The Heist on October 9, 2012, which charted at number 2 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 78,000 copies in the first week.
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