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Macklemore opens up about collaboration with Ed Sheeran

Earlier tonight (August 5), Macklemore and Ryan Lewis dropped a brand new song called 'Growing Up (Sloane's Song)', which also features Ed Sheeran, and the rapper has now opened up about writing the cut.

Speaking to MTV News this week, Macklemore confessed that long-time collaborator Ryan Lewis asked him to access his deepest emotions for the track as it was "missing some vulnerability":

"He was like, ’I feel like it’s missing some vulnerability. I feel like it’s missing a piece of you. Where are you at right now’. I immediately was just like, 'Where am I at right now? I’m so scared to be a dad. I don’t know what kind of dad I’m gonna be. I don’t know if I’m going to let my addiction get in the way of being a good father'.”

The 'Thrift Shop' sensation went onto add that once he started entertaining these thoughts, the heartfelt lyrics just came to him: "I wrote the words, ’They say boys don’t cry, but your dad has shed a lot of tears', and immediately just welled up, and it just kind of came.”

"Sloane is a piece of my mom and the things that she taught me, I’m gonna pass on to Sloane. And to be able to put that into music in a way that I felt like I captured it is — it’s one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written.”

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