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"Thrift Shop" is a song written and performed by American hip hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring vocals from American singer Wanz, released in 2012, as the fourth single from the former's debut studio album, The Heist (2012). The lyrics tell of Macklemore's esteem for going to thrift shops and saving money, rather than flaunting ...
Popular area rappers Blue Scholars and Macklemore regularly use the term in their lyrics; Macklemore uses the word several times in his worldwide hit song "Thrift Shop". [ 10 ] In the South Park episode " Spookyfish ," which was the 1998 Halloween special, the character Cartman repeatedly used the term hella to the annoyance of the other ...
On the song Macklemore said, "Ryan [Lewis] made a beat on the road called 'moping around,' I got the beat, I thought it said moped." "Coincidentally we had both purchased mopeds for being on the road so we could go around, leave the venues that we were performing at, and I wrote a song about mopeds, which now a year and a half later is out in the world."
If someone told me they were going to a thrift shop, I'd understand, just as if they said they were going to a hardware shop, but in this case, I think hatnotes are the way to go. I suspect anyone typing in "Thrift Shop" with title-case capitalization is indeed looking for the song. --BDD 16:45, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
In the video, Yung Joc plays four different roles; as himself, as a fat man who works at the shop, a dwarf who works at the shop, and as a bald old man who also works at the shop. Gorilla Zoe's verse in the video is not the same as his verse in the single, and the video ends after Joc says, "Hey kids, please don't do drugs." rather than ...
While the previous motive for shopping at thrift stores among consumers were budget and necessity, sustainability is the new reason most consumers shop at thrift stores. [12] The National Association of Retail and Thrift Shops has attributed the favorability of thrift shops has increased due to awareness of the need for waste reduction and ...
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The song features an aggressive delivery of the lyrics, which include profanity-peppered proclamations that range from the mundane ("The boat engine make noise") to the absurd ("I'm gonna fly this boat to the moon somehow"). Schaffer at one time claims to be riding a wild dolphin, and doing flips, and at another time to be climbing buoys.