Macklemore Rakes Donald Trump & Elon Musk Over the Coals in Scathing Demonstration Tune ‘F– ked Up’

Macklemore is as soon as again slamming the United States federal government, this time taking President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to job in a scorching brand-new demonstration tune entitled “F– ked Up.”

In the track published to his YouTube channel Wednesday (Feb. 12), the rap artist weaves his method through verses linking racial oppression in America to the twice-impeached POTUS’ administration, which now consists of the Tesla billionaire. Macklemore likewise calls out the United States’ financial backing of Israel throughout the nation’s continuous war versus Hamas, a dispute that has actually eliminated at least 45,000 Palestinians in between the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks– which left more than 1,200 Israelis dead and about 240 individuals hijacked– and the temporary ceasefire the 2 sides reached in January.

” New period ushered, however white supremacy is still in charge/ Talking colonizing Gaza from the White Home yard/ However individuals mobbing, and we ain’t withdrawing/ Lastly see the oligarchy and the males that manage all of us,” the Washington native spits over a dark, extreme beat. “Tax breaks for the elite and after that they taxing y’ all/ Eliminating Palestinian kids and we getting struck with the expense.”

Macklemore matched the tune with a video putting together video of American and Palestinian protestors, consisting of a clip of the rogue dancer who waved a mix Palestine-Sudan flag throughout Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Program Sunday (Feb. 9). It likewise reveals many clips of Trump, Musk and fellow billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos referring lyrics about abundant males in power reducing the American individuals.

One clip the video consistently returns to is of the X CEO doing a Nazi-like salute at one of Trump’s inauguration occasions in January. “They got us f– ked up,” Macklemore raves in the tune’s chorus. “And Elon, we understand precisely what that was, bruh.”

Signboard has actually connected to associates for the White Home, Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos for remark.

” F– ked Up” is simply the current demonstration tune the hip-hop star– who has actually been singing in both his assistance of Palestine and his dissatisfaction in the U.S. federal government– has actually launched in the previous year. In May 2024, he ripped into then-president Joe Biden while promoting for Gaza on a track entitled “Hind’s Hall,” the profits of which went to the United Nations Relief and Functions Company’s help and defense programs for Palestinian refugees. The following September, he dropped a follow up to the tune with helps from Gazan rap artist MC Abdul and Palestinian-American vocalist Anees, including the chant, “From the river to the sea/ Palestine will be totally free.” (The American Jewish Committee has deemed the phrase antisemitic.).

When Macklemore carried out “Hind’s Hall 2” that month at Seattle’s Palestine Will Live Forever Celebration, he likewise led the crowd in a “F– k America” chant, after which Las Vegas’ 2024 Neon City Celebration dropped him from its lineup. Later on, the “Thrift Store” hitmaker stated in a declaration, “My ideas and sensations are not constantly revealed completely or pleasantly. In some cases I mistake and get captured in the minute.”

” I have actually insinuated front of the world previously,” he continued at the time. “I make sure I’ll do it once again. However they will not silence my voice, and they will not close my heart. I have actually lost recommendations, I have actually lost programs, I have actually lost organization ties. I am still here, unwavering in my assistance for a Free Palestine.”