When I was a somewhat depressed college freshman, I left my body dancing to Macklemore's "Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton)" at a party. I haven't achieved a similar state of pure euphoria since. This is just the way it was, OK, I'm not saying this to impress anybody.
I cannot vouch for this video.
I also loved "Thrift Shop." Again, freshman year was a kind of vulnerable time. I felt genuinely buoyed by the act of whispering "pisssssssssssssssss" with Macklemore. Of course, I'm not alone in my 2010s enthusiasm for these songs. Both of them reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts. "Thrift Shop" won Best Rap Song at the Grammys in 2014, a plaudit among many that year for which Macklemore publicly apologized.
