Been a long time coming

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Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Been a long time coming</h1>
                <h2><p>Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" has grabbed the coveted No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 — the first time in more than two decades a Seattle talent has topped the hit parade, according to seattlepi.com. The story by reporter Casey McNerthney — it's always good</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" has grabbed the coveted No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 — the first time in more than two decades a Seattle talent has topped the hit parade, <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Macklemore-s-Thrift-Shop-most-popular-song-in-4219666.php?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">according to seattlepi.com</a>. The story by reporter Casey McNerthney — it's always good to see the super-talented young reporter mastering something besides the cops-and-robbers beat — notes that Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" was the last time Seattle rocked the nation's world. Gossip alert: McNerthney also digs into Macklemore's recent engagement and his attempt to get Mix-a-Lot to appear in one of his videos.If your afternoon needs a little extra spice, check out the video of Mix-a-Lot's 1992 song. The uploader (Quantumofficial) claims it made "the list of censored MTV clips." Umm, yes, we can see how that could be. But maybe we could also say it's timeless?</p><figure class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_JphDdGV2TU" width="420"></iframe></figure>
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Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" has grabbed the coveted No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 — the first time in more than two decades a Seattle talent has topped the hit parade, according to seattlepi.com. The story by reporter Casey McNerthney — it's always good to see the super-talented young reporter mastering something besides the cops-and-robbers beat — notes that Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" was the last time Seattle rocked the nation's world. Gossip alert: McNerthney also digs into Macklemore's recent engagement and his attempt to get Mix-a-Lot to appear in one of his videos.If your afternoon needs a little extra spice, check out the video of Mix-a-Lot's 1992 song. The uploader (Quantumofficial) claims it made "the list of censored MTV clips." Umm, yes, we can see how that could be. But maybe we could also say it's timeless?

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi