Ed Sheeran Introduced His ‘Previous Buddy’ Macklemore Out in Seattle

Ed Sheeran has made a repute of collaborating with and befriending all people from pop mainstays to rappers — one in all whom he introduced out on stage on Saturday. 

On the singer-songwriter’s + – = ÷ x (Arithmetic) Tour cease in Seattle on Saturday at Lumen Subject, he invited Macklemore to hitch him for a efficiency. 

Followers captured footage of Sheeran, 32, and the hip-hop artist, 40, enjoying his hits “Thrift Store” and “Can’t Maintain Us” within the latter’s house metropolis. 

Earlier than the “Similar Love” rapper got here on stage, Sheeran gave him a heartfelt introduction. 

“I’ve an actual nice love for Seattle. I’ve a whole lot of mates right here. I shot the ‘Form of You’ music video right here. I’ve spent a whole lot of time right here,” he instructed the Lumen Subject crowd, who broke viewers attendance numbers at Lumen Subject that night time, in response to The Seattle Occasions. “And there’s an artist that I actually love from right here. I keep in mind listening to him for the primary time after I was in Australia, and I reached out on Twitter again within the day, and we bought to be mates and now we’ve been mates for about 10 years.”

“I bought to see him as we speak, which was actually cool, and it was like seeing an outdated pal and catching up on the whole lot,” he continued. “I stated to him, ‘You must, you need to come out tonight.’” 

“Let’s go,” Sheeran shouted, because the rapper (whose actual title is Ben Haggerty) got here out to the sound of his 2012 music “Thrift Store.” 

Sheeran joined him on the melodic verses of the observe and supported him on the acoustic guitar. 

Their joint set then continued. After enjoying the observe, Sheeran added, “After I noticed Ben as we speak, I stated, ‘You may’t simply come for one music,’” and the 2 jumped into “Can’t Maintain Us.”

The “Eyes Closed” musician shared footage of Macklemore’s visitor look on Instagram and thanked him within the caption. “What a second, bringing out @macklemore in Seattle for a house crowd. Will always remember that power within the stadium. Thanks Ben to your time, and your metropolis rocks x ,” Sheeran wrote. 

Though the 2 have but to launch a music collectively, they beforehand carried out collectively at iHeartRadio Music Competition in 2014. Sheeran additionally coated “Thrift Store” in a viral mash-up with Blackstreet and Dr. Dre’s “No Diggity” that he and singer-songwriter Passenger carried out again in 2013. 

The Grammy winner is presently wrapping up his Arithmetic tour dates, which is able to proceed by way of late September, and can be gearing as much as launch his subsequent album. 

Final week, the “Excellent” singer introduced his new document Autumn Variations is due out Sept. 29, coming simply a number of months after – (Subtract) was launched in Might. 

He gave followers perception into the upcoming launch by sharing a video on Instagram. “Hey everybody. The solar is shining however autumn is coming. I’ve an album I’ve made known as Autumn Variations. This can be a document that I used to be form of making similtaneously Subtract. It is what me and Aaron [Dessner] went in initially to make,” he stated within the clip. “Elgar (a composer) has this factor known as the Enigma Variation the place he did 14 songs about 14 mates so I needed to make 14 songs about 14 mates and base it on autumn.”

Within the caption of the publish, he wrote, “Final autumn, I discovered that my mates and I had been going by way of so many life adjustments. After the warmth of the summer time, the whole lot both calmed, settled, fell aside, got here to a head or imploded.”

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“After I went by way of a troublesome time at the beginning of final yr, writing songs helped me perceive my emotions and are available to phrases with what was occurring, and after I realized about my pal’s completely different conditions, I wrote songs, some from their views, some from mine, to seize how they and I considered the world at the moment,” he continued. “There have been highs of falling in love and new friendships amongst lows of heartbreak, melancholy, loneliness and confusion.”

The document is accessible to preorder and presave right here.