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23
BREAKING NEWS: ‘Colbert Report’ guest Nas live on Ustream at 6p EST
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Not sure how this is going to work with the taping, seeing as how he’s scheduled to be on tonight, but right now it’s live streaming – Nas is on the couch, eating or something. On mute. Watching his shoulder presumably eat is fascinating! He just wiped his mouth – the internet ROCKS!!
Edit: He’s started talking and answering questions!!
Click hear to watch Nas live on Ustream at 6p EST/3p PST!
EDIT II: The show ended up running from 5:30p-6:00p, as he was off to be on “The Col-burt show” (bless his heart), and said he would be performing “Sly Fox” on the show tonight. You should go and listen to the lyrics [NSFW, for language]. The Fox of which he references is Fox News.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Thanks for this; I’m looking forward to hearing “Sly Fox” on the show!
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July 23rd, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I really liked this video. When I first heard about Nas being on TCR, I was surprised that he had been booked for the show. It all makes sense to me now. I’m looking forward to seeing him tonight.
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July 24th, 2008 at 12:07 am
That was an excellent performance by Nas, and Stephen’s setup and interview was perfectly tailored to it. It’s not “news” that Fox is crap (Nas said as much during his interview), but I thought the conversation/interview between Stephen (“gangsta host”) and Nas was, itself, an excellent counterpoint to the dreck that O’Reilly and Geraldo generally spew.
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July 24th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Did anyone else catch the part where Nas said something like, “Why did all the guns in my neighborhood say made in Israel? Or made in Austria?” What in the world is he talking about? Here he is deliverring a petition claiming that fox is racist and then insinuating that Israel has some sort of an interest in flooding inner cities with guns? That kind of ruined it for me…And how ironic on a day which Obama was meeting with all the Israeli leaders.
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July 24th, 2008 at 12:46 am
I thought that line was … interesting. I noticed Stephen steered way the heck away from that bit pretty quick. Maybe it wasn’t meant in a bad way, just a throwaway? Maybe?
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July 24th, 2008 at 1:05 am
I’ll admit that I know very little about where (geographically) the guns most commonly found in inner cities originate, but I didn’t read any particular significance into the reference to Israel. I just assumed (again, possibly in ignorance) that he was saying that these “gangsters,” so-labeled by people not from those neighborhoods, get blamed for the gun problems as though the person carrying the weapon is where the problem starts and ends, when in fact the problems come from all over and get “imported” into the inner cities. Put another way, the O’Reillys of the world like to blame “gangsters” as though they are the total problem, with no reference to what social conditions they live in and what privileged America has done (or failed to do) to create those social conditions. Because it’s easier to marginalize an “Other” if we don’t have to feel responsibility for making them that way, we pretend it’s all “their” fault.
I guess that’s my long-winded and inarticulate way of saying that I thought Nas was calling out O’Reilly, Fox, et al, for demonizing the symptoms of the problem (gangs, violence, etc.) while ignoring their own role in contributing to the disease (poverty, the class/income gap, lack of opportunities).
(And wow, flashback to the cultural studies classes I took once upon a time … )
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August 1st, 2008 at 3:09 pm
So, so well said, Ms Interpreted.
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