Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Same Love” Wins 2013 VMA Award
Same Love won Best Video with A Social Message at the 2013 Video Music Awards. Same Love, by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, was the perfect anthem for DOMA’s defeat. The equality anthem took society (and hip-hop music) to task for their homophobic stances. The song became the unofficial anthem for the Referendum 74 campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in Washington (a measure that passed in November), a genuine Top 40 hit on radio and then witnessed history when the Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Same Love” Wins 2013 VMA Award