Mackenzy Mackay releases "Broke"

“Broke” sees Mackenzy Mackay looking back at his childhood, raised by a single mum with three siblings, often struggling to make ends meet. It acknowledges the struggle but also the good times, hoping to inspire others in similar situations.

“The verse is about where I’m from, my mum and how we were brought up. A lot of the time the meter had run out and we’d have to sit in the dark for a while, put the fire on, but my mum would make it fun and make toast for dinner on the fire. Back then you think, ‘It is what it is’, until later on in life and you realise what it actually was.”

“I wanted to write about who I am and where I come from,” he continues. “For my siblings and me, we grew up with absolutely fuck all. To be here now and in a place where people actually listen to my music, I think it is important to share that because there’s so many people from similar backgrounds to me that will relate to that shit so well.”

“I want people to resonate with this, I want people to understand that people from normal backgrounds can be in the industry, even come from no money and still get in there as much as it feels like, it just might take a bit more but you can get there, you can keep cracking on"