On the heels of the two Seattle sports teams responding to Macklemore's derogatory remarks, the singer was dropped from a Las Vegas festival he was set to headline.
Two professional sports teams distanced themselves from rapper Macklemore after he told concertgoers at a pro-Palestinian event Saturday in Seattle , "F— America!"Macklemore is an investor of both the NHL’s Seattle Kraken and MLS’ Seattle Sounders FC. Both teams released a joint statement Tuesday on Macklemore’s remarks."We believe that sports bring people together and unite us.
"The only thing I want anybody to take away from this is – anything that we do in this space is 1,000% for Palestine," he told the outlet. "It is in service of Palestine and those that are fighting every day. We do what we can on this side. And I think as long as we’re centering and framing all the work that we do as being in service of them, then we’re doing the work.
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