“But in actuality the hypothetical ‘dad’ version of me looked completely different than the man whose heart was beating out of chest on the carpet, praying to a god or spirit I hadn’t talked to in months. “I’ve always had some make-believe image in my head of who I would be as a father,” Taggerty wrote. But after he found out his partner Tricia Davis was pregnant last year, Macklemore realized he had to clean up his act and become the father he wanted to be for his daughter, he said in the letter. The success of songs like “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us” led him down the dark road again. Macklemore decided to write this song following his descent back into drug and alcohol abuse, which he initially struggled with before his career skyrocketed, according to an emotional letter that Macklemore and Ryan Lewis posted on their website. Don’t wanna be a dad that’s living in Facetime, but I got a world to sing to and you at the same time.” “Put in so many hours, and I just want the outcome to be something that I can look back and I can be proud of. “I could promise you that I’ll try and work less, but the tour’s routed and I got this album,” he raps. In the song, Macklemore, whose real name is Ben Taggerty, explains what kind of father he hopes to be. Seattle rapper Macklemore talks growing up Catholic with gay uncles. Instead, the duo, along with Ed Sheeran, just released a new song called “Growing Up (Sloane’s Song),” which pays homage to Macklemore’s 2-month-old baby daughter, Sloane Ava Simone Taggerty. Benjamin Hammond Haggerty (born June 19, 1983), better known by his stage name Macklemore. Long gone are the days when the two young men sifted through Thrift Shop clothes. With their newest song, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have surely grown up.
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