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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: A Seattle State of Mind

09/09/2014

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

BBC Radio 1 - Radio 1 Stories, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

Semtex heads to Seattle to hang out in the city that is home to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.

DJ Semtex heads to Seattle to hang out in the city that is home to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.

DJ Semtex travels to Seattle to meet the team behind one of the biggest albums of the last year - Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. 

He heads to their studio to talk to them about their huge independent success, he takes Thrift Shop singer Wanz to the thrift shop and takes a tour of Seattle's famous Pike Place Market with vocalist Ray Dalton. Plus he revisits the first time he met Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, backstage at their first gig in London in 2012. 

You'll also hear from Schoolboy Q, Rick Ross and Action Bronson on what they make of the duo's success.

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