Did you know I listen to hip hop?

Some of you who know me from the club know that I have ecclectic tastes but I bet you never imagined that I have been listening to such genres as hip hop, and melodic death metal, for years and years. I don't usually have cause to write about them on an indie board but I'm making an exception for an exceptional song.....by Macklemore. I know what you're thinking. "What could the thrift shop guy possibly have that would get Mik's attention enough to post on the Cantina?"

Same Love.

This is a song about acceptance and love for your fellow man that would be unlikely from any number of musical genres, but to come out of the world of Hip Hop....a notoriously anti-gay, pro bitches and sluts, genre, is unheard of. I literally cannot think of a single song in the genre that has touched this subject.

I'm a big supporter of LGBT causes and maybe it's my mindset or almost 40 years of time on this little blue dot, but it's 2013 and there are stranger things in the world than homosexuality and it boggles my mind how some people just can't move on and put old prejudices aside. So this song is very close to my heart and I thought the video especially was very well done. It reminds me that love is real in any form, and that true love is a beautiful thing. Love for your fellow man, love for soul mate, we all breath the same air.

So I encourage you to give it a chance, watch the video, and tell me what you think. If there is such a thing as Indie Hip Hop, I would have to say this is pretty close to what it should be.