Photos: Macklemore's 'top secret' Capitol Hill rooftop performance

Thousands of onlookers turned out Wednesday night for the Capitol Hill filming of a Macklemore video. Dick's Drive-in never saw such a crowd.
by / July 24, 2013
Thousands of onlookers turned out Wednesday night for the Capitol Hill filming of a Macklemore video. Dick's Drive-in never saw such a crowd.

Rumors began flying Wednesday around Capitol Hill when news that Broadway would be closed for several hours that night surfaced. Could it be that Seattle's favorite hip-hop artist, the one so tied to his city, was planning to film his next video atop the roof of Dick's Burgers? (Sadly) Chief Sealth himself couldn't have organized a more buzzed-about appearance. 

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And so it was. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis took the "stage" around midnight ...

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to the tune of about 2,000 screaming fans. 

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Twitter cleverly dubbed it #macklemob.

Photos: Crosscut reader Adriana Zamora 

 

  

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Berit Anderson

Berit Anderson was Managing Editor at Crosscut, following tech, culture, media and politics. She founded Crosscut's Community Idea Lab. Previously community manager of the Tribune Company’s Seattle blogging network, her work has also appeared in YES! Magazine and on the Huffington Post, Geekwire, Q13Fox.com and KBCS 91.3 radio. She served as Communications Director at Strategic News Service, a weekly newsletter that predicts global trends in tech and economics, and Future in Review, an annual tech conference which gathers C-level executives to solve global problems. Her weaknesses include outdoor adventure, bananas with peanut butter and big fluffy dogs.