Macklemore, an outspoken voice for open-mindedness in hip-hop, has rankled select fans by wearing a costume some have construed as anti-Semitic, The Daily Dot reports. At a surprise performance at the Experience Music Project Museum Friday night, the rapper performed with an oversized nose, bowl-cut wig and Hasidic-looking beard attached to his face. Following the performance, several people expressed their dismay with Macklemore on Twitter. The rapper responded to the outcry with a tweet, but did not express contrition.
"A fake witches [sic] nose, wig, and beard = random costume," he wrote. "Not my idea of a stereotype of anybody." A representative for Macklemore directed Rolling Stone to the rapper's tweet.
Actor Seth Rogen joked on Twitter about the incident, writing, "Macklemore, first you trick people into thinking you're a rapper, now you trick them into thinking you're Jewish?"
