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Macklemore Just Achieved Something Amazing with His Album ‘The Heist’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Ten years to the
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Speaker 1: month since their album The Highest made McLamore and Ryan
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Speaker 1: Lewis household names, they've made history together. It's single can
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Speaker 1: Hold Us has just been certified Diamond, joining its other
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Speaker 1: Diamond single, thrift Shop, given the project what's called double
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Speaker 1: diamond status, and that is no small feet. In fact,
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Speaker 1: it makes them one of only twenty artists in music
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Speaker 1: history to have two Diamond singles off one album, and
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Speaker 1: McLamore's understandably humbled by the honor, particularly since they released
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Speaker 1: the album independently since no one would sign them. He
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Speaker 1: tells Billboard, it's an amazing accomplishment. But the crazy thing is,
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Speaker 1: we played those records for labels and dudes told us
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Speaker 1: they're cool. I don't hear it on the radio, though,
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Speaker 1: And we are here today with two Diamond singles. It's amazing.
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Speaker 1: McLamore's new single, Faithful, is out Friday. That's direct from Hollywood.