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Macklemore promises new album in 2015

'Thrift Shop' rapper Macklemore has teased that the new year will see him release a brand new album, which will act as the follow-up to his 2012 debut, 'The Heist'. 

The hitmaker publicly replied to a tweet (shown below) posted by a fan who suggested that she was annoyed by the lack of a new album and confessed that this year should satisfy that need because he's planning on creating a new record.

Macklemore, meanwhile, recently sat down for an interview with Hot 97 and told the host that being white is probably a big factor in helping him achieve such huge success: "Why am I safe? Why can I cuss on a record, have a parental advisory sticker on the cover of my album, yet parents are still like, 'You're the only rap I let my kids listen to'."

"If I was black, what would my drug addiction look like? It would be twisted into something else versus maybe, 'Get back on your feet!' The privilege that exists in the music industry is just a greater symptom of the privilege that exists in America. There's no difference...I got put in that 'hero' box and I think that when that happens, it's because of white privilege."

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