Seattle hiphop's most conspicuous export has just released their first new song since the non-stop victory lap of their big hit record from 2012. According to press materials, "Growing Up (Sloane's Song)," is not a single per se, but "rather a personal moment of expression from Ben & Ryan for their fans." (It can be downloaded here, and is embedded below.)

"Growing Up" is a dad-to-newborn love song in the vein of Will Smith's version of Bill Withers and Grover Washington, Jr.'s "Just the Two of Us" and Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely." It seems likely to go over big with people who have kids and like commercial rap, which is TOTALLY VALID. It also has a big, soaring melodic "hook" bit sung by British pop singer Ed Sheeran, which will limit the ability of many people to even pretend to give it a chance, which is, as they say, showbiz. Plenty of people are eager to see the macklash go full-blown and this song will do nothing to quell that urge.

Nevertheless: It's a plausible hit and a basically respectable strategic move for a recording artist in one of the two most difficult positions a recording artist can be in. Though if you tilt your head just so, you can almost hear the ghostly voice of the A&R guy or manager who said the fateful words, "What if we got Ed Sheeran?" Still, there's nothing wrong with going pop, and as even Macklemore's most ardent fans will happily admit, it's not like he had THAT far to go to get there.

However, here's another prediction: The internet, which never sleeps on an outrage opportunity, especially one with a racial dimension, is going to hammer Macklemore for the minor-but-maybe-major lyric error that falls about 1:30 in.

The rhymes consist primarily of advice and promises to his infant daughter. He apologizes in advance for touring a lot ("I got a world to sing to and you at the same time"), vows not to spoil her ("for your sweet 16 you get a bus pass"), expresses unconditional love, and so forth. It's sweet and tender. Then, he says this:

"Get back to the community that raised you up/ Read Langston Hughes—I suggest A Raisin in the Sun."

Of course, the internet will soon remind Macklemore that A Raisin in the Sun is the title of a fine 1959 play by Lorraine Hansberry, which refers to the third line in Langston Hughes's shattering 1951 poem, "Harlem"—later renamed, variously, "Dream Deferred" and "Harlem (Dream Deferred)"—in which Hughes posits several possible outcomes for such a dream, the first of which is that it might dry up, like such a raisin. It's a potent, durable image, as evocative now as it was in the English class where it taught you what poetry even is and the history class where it taught you what it means. (And that, truly, is to say the least about Mr. Hughes.)

Here is what the internet will say about this: "Really, Macklemore? REALLY?"

I am not saying that.

I'm exactly the type of person who notices and minds when people make mistakes like this. But I also get how it could happen. When you're writing a song, finishing the rhyme is more important than being (or employing) a fact checking 'cuz. Songs aren't grammar primers or literature exams. It's not a federal crime. It's just ironic (both in the Alanis Morrissette sense, and because of that, the actual sense, too).

Still, if it were my culture being referenced and represented in an effort to sound worldly, wise, and, for lack of a better word, "down," I might take a stronger exception to this kind of error.

Also, though, the first bit is excellent advice. I wish my parents had recommended I read Langston Hughes. The next line recommends that she "listen to Sam Cooke, 'A Change Gonna Come.'" Sound counsel and error-free.

Maybe I'm wrong and your social media feeds WON'T be blowing up with sanctimonious overstatement (based on legitimate complaints) about privilege and appropriation today. Maybe this will just be one of those funny pop things like "Ironic" or how when Paul McCartney sings 'this ever-changing world in which we're living" everyone thinks he's saying "in which we live in."

Or will it explode?

Meanwhile, here's the personal note that accompanies the song's release: