This is the song that made him famous in the worldwide

This song is about the economic structure of society and the unjust way people can easily attain material. While there are people that actually need clothes and food and money, the artist is expressing how people in today's society who are financially well off simply go to the thrift store to blow off money as opposed to people who save up to go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes

Haggerty was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. He earned a bachelor's degree from The Evergreen State College in 2005. Though he was not born to a musical family, both of his parents were supportive of his musical ventures. He was six years old when hip hop first came in to his life by way of Digital Underground. As he grew older, he and his friends spent their summers setting up tents to listen to the radio, making dubs and mixtapes of songs that would play because he and his friends were unable to buy any due to being underage and not having parental consent.

Macklemore was fourteen when he started writing lyrics. When he started to rap. Interested in reaching a younger generation through his music, he was a part of a program focusing on education and cultural identity called "Gateways for Incarcerated Youth" where he facilitated music workshops.