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Haggerty then went on to earn a bachelor's degree from The Evergreen State College in 2009. Elevated Elements released an album titled Progress in 2000. At Hale, he developed the stage name "Professor Macklemore" for an art project involving a made-up superhero, and at Garfield, he started a hip-hop group called Elevated Elements with other students. Haggerty attended Garfield High School and Nathan Hale High School.

Interested in reaching a younger generation through his music, he was a part of a program focusing on education and cultural identity called "Gateways for Incarcerated Youth" where he facilitated music workshops. When he started to sing, Haggerty listened to "a lot of East Coast underground hip hop", with Hieroglyphics, Freestyle Fellowship, Aceyalone, Living Legends, Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, Nas, and Talib Kweli being big influences on him. Haggerty was 15 when he started to write lyrics. According to a YouTube interview, he listened to "parental advisory" music from the radio when he was an underage youth. Haggerty was six years old when hip hop first came into his life by way of Digital Underground. If I'm still growing up, still growing up, still growing up. He is one of two boys and was raised with his brother Tim in Seattle, Washington. Times are changing, I know, but who am I if.

Haggerty was born to Bill Haggerty and Julie Schott. Since 2000, he has independently released one mixtape, three EPs, and four albums.

The song, which is called 'Growing Up,' features a guest appearance by Ed Sheeran and. He has collaborated with producer Ryan Lewis as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. For the first time since 2012s The Heist, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have new music to share. Benjamin Hammond Haggerty (born June 19, 1983), known by his stage name Macklemore and formerly Professor Mack Lemore, is an American rapper from Seattle, Washington.