With the days until Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' This Unruly Mess I've Made dwindling, the Seattle duo has let the album's third single loose, a rattling street ode that sits a comfortable distance away from both the pop sensibility of "Downtown" and the racially sensitive nature of "White Privilege II." As Macklemore explains what might disqualify him from participating in any racially-centered discourse on the latter of the two, on "Buckshot" he confirms his street knowledge by rapping with vigor about one of hip-hop's main tenets, graffiti, while also bigging up the Brooklyn rapper Buckshot.

"Just copped that new Boot Camp tape / The neighbors keep complaining about too much bass / Bang, bang, let me do my thing / Give me two cans and you gon know my name," he raps at the start of the song's second verse, implying that what he can't say with words he will spray paint.

KRS-One meanwhile follows up some DJ Premier trademark scratching with a closing verse that adds a New York-official co-sign to the street art ode. "Where them reds at or them green turquoise? / Where my real graf writers, make some noise?" he asks at the song's conclusion. This Unruly Mess I've Made, the follow-up to Mack and Ryan's smash 2012 hit The Heist, is set to drop on Feb. 26 with a slew of features from both schools old and new. Listen to "Buckshot" with KRS-One and DJ Premier below.

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