If you’re going to lament the changes on Capitol Hill, here’s how to do it. With love. And $100.
Here i Sir Mix-a-Lot, via Reddit, on the changing Capitol Hill:
My posse is no longer on Broadway and you’re right. Capital Hill has changed. You had to make sure you had your strap (that’s your gun, for the impaired) and you had to be conscious, you had to put your head on a swivel. And nowadays, you just take 100 bucks, go up on Capital Hill, and you buy one cupcake and a cup of coffee. And you’re broke. That’s my Capital Hill, and I love it, but DAMN those cupcakes cost a lot of money.
(You can blame the Capital typo on OP, by the way. But, still, Mix should know better.)
“And nowadays, you just take 100 bucks, go up on Capital Hill, and you buy one cupcake and a cup of coffee. And you’re broke.”
“Capital” Hill a typo? Are you sure? Or is it the more appropriate spelling, what with that cupcake and cup of coffee for a Benjamin. And one bedroom apts for over $2k/mo. And big money turning a once-colorful neighborhood into just another population center.
So welcome to Capital Hill. If you’ve got the capital, we’ve got the hill.
Needing a gun to hang out on Broadway? Never happened.
You need more than the $100 for coffee and a cupcake. You also need extra cash to replace your stolen belongings after being mugged.
The other change he failed to mention is that his limo would no longer be welcome among all of the car-haters on Broadway.
So wait… Just to be clear— he’s pining for the days when you needed your gun, and had to keep your wits about you to not get killed? And those days were so much preferable to getting ripped for $100 for a cupcake and coffee? Oh well, sure, that totally makes sense. It’s way better to fear getting shot all the time than to get fleeced on cupcakes. Yeah, by all means, bring back those days. We need his posse back on Broadway.
Of course, now we have $100 cupcakes AND gunshots….
I lived on Capitol Hill from 1988 – 2006, and it always felt like a completely safe neighborhood. I didn’t own a car for many of those years and walked days, evenings, and at night and never once had a problem. Sir Mix-a-lot may be referring to a time earlier than the late eighties, but my all of my years on the Hill were safe, incredibly enjoyable, and somewhat affordable. It used to be a really great neighborhood.
It still is!
I don’t remember it that way either. Maybe it was that way when he was around? If that’s the way he remembers it, I’d just as soon his posse didn’t come back.
Mix was talking by phone with Victoria from reddit who was doing the typing, so ot’s her (totally understandable) bad, not his.