Seattle's outdoors inspire Macklemore's hip-hop

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Greg Shaw Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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Seattle hip-hop artists Macklemore and Ryan Lewis speak in a YouTube video about what it was like growing up in Seattle's outdoors. Turns out it's way cooler to rap in a park than in the family room.

By Greg Shaw

Greg Shaw is a senior director in Microsoft’s strategy group. He served as publisher of Crosscut and prior to that was a director for the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. He writes for Crosscu