With his break-out hit, “Thrift Shop,” Macklemore is one of the hottest rappers in the business.<\/p>\n
At a concert at Wake Forest, his fans got a little too excited.<\/p>\n\n\n
They stopped me mid verse, turned the power off and 20 minutes later we were told that we were done. It was never in our control nor did we<\/p>\n
— Macklemore (@macklemore) March 23, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> ever stop performing. I’m sorry to the students that wanted to see a show. It was a very frustrating night for us. If you feel the same way<\/p>\n — Macklemore (@macklemore) March 23, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> holler at your school. That barricade was for 2,000 people and there were over 4,000 there.<\/p>\n — Macklemore (@macklemore) March 23, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n<\/p> His fans still love him:<\/p>\n\n\n @macklemore<\/a> I apologize for wake last night. You were an amazing performer, but the kids at this school can’t handle someone like you.<\/p>\n — Chelsea Price (@chelprice) March 23, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> Y’all at wake owe @macklemore<\/a> and @ryanlewis<\/a> an apology for being stupid selfish Fucks. Sry guys<\/p>\n — G. Sanda (@Sandapandaa) March 23, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> Only Wake would be douchy enough to make @macklemore<\/a> leave. #ugh<\/a> #pissed<\/a><\/p>\n — Kristin Smith (@kristinhaleigh) March 23, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n<\/p> In related news, some Twitter users were shocked to learn that Macklemore is — gasp! — white:<\/p>\n\n\n wait macklemore is white?! WTF😂😂😂😂 #dead<\/a><\/p>\n — August 2nd✨ (@xbridistler98) March 23, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> hold up Macklemore is white?????<\/p>\n — a b b y (@milkoskians) March 23, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n<\/p> Wait macklemore is white…..? Da fuqqq??!?<\/p>\n — Corey (@CRC_TheFirst) March 23, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/03\/23\/wake-forest-halts-macklemore-concert-after-fans-bust-through-barricade\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/macklemore\/status\/315473822444822533 With his break-out hit, “Thrift Shop,” Macklemore is one of the hottest rappers in the business. At a concert at Wake Forest, his fans got a little too excited. They stopped me mid verse, turned the power off and 20 minutes later we were told that we were done. It was never in our … Continue reading Wake Forest halts Macklemore concert after fans bust through barricade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/15842439576904-macklemore.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}