Metal Lungies

The senator in Virginia for years was Chuck Robb. My wife and I supported him, and got invited to his Christmas party in the late ’90s, when [2Pac’s] Greatest Hits came out. My wife decided we should listen to it on the drive. We get to Robb’s house, and there were a bunch of black parking attendants. We opened the car, and — I didn’t know this — but the next song to come on was [“Hit Em Up”]. The timing was hilarious. Right when the brothers were ready to take the keys the line “I fucked your bitch/ You fat motherfucker” came on. These guys fell out. They looked at me at first in horror, and then started laughing like crazy.

–Bruce Hornsby (“Changes” samples Hornsby’s “The Way It Is.”)