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24
THE MEDIA ERUPTS: Nas on ‘The Colbert Report’
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Reggin, please! There are all kinds of stories about Nas and his appearance on The Colbert Report last night. Here’s a collection of some of the articles featuring the interview.
- Stereogum:
187,000 albums later, Nas has elbowed Lil Wayne and Coldplay out of the way for the top spot on the album charts this week. 620,127 signed petitions later, Nas has elbowed Stephen Colbert and Keith Olbermann out of the way for some room at the Bill O’Reilly Haters Ball. - College on the Record:
Nas also made an appearance on The Colbert Report to discuss the petition and perform “Sly Fox”, a song lovingly dedicated to his favorite news channel. To college students, Stephen Colbert is a demi-god of sorts – many students looking to him for their news. So kudos to Nas for chatting with Colbert, he just gained about a gazillion more petition signers! - Associated Press (via USA Today):
The network responded by saying, “Fox News believes in all protesters exercising their right to free speech including Nas who has an album to promote.” - RawStory.com:
Fox wouldn’t accept the petition, and O’Reilly refused an invitation to debate Nas, so the rapper took his message to satirical O’Reilly stand-in Stephen Colbert. - Idoler.com:
Nah Right also has video of Bill O’Reilly responding to Nas. You can probably guess whose flow is better. - Huffington Post:
Fox News wouldn’t accept Nas’ petition, but Stephen Colbert did. - Mediabistro’s TVNewser blog:
Before the interview, Colbert aired a compilation video from the protest earlier in the day. Colbert played part of Nas’ speech at the protest, who said, “We already know Fox News is not a news network, they are a propaganda machine.” “Yes, machine,” said Colbert,” Unlike MSNBC, which is a propaganda Pez dispenser.”
Since the official Comedy Central videos of the interview and the performance last night featuring Nas aren’t playing nice today, here’s a version with both completed.
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10 Comments
July 24th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I thought it was a good interview. Gave me a couple of out loud chuckles, which is always a good sign for me.
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July 24th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
The best part of the Huffington article is if you scroll down the page, there’s a box on the right that has the “HuffPost’s Big News Pages” and Jon Stewart is a feature. Love it.
…can’t wait to watch last night’s episode when I get home from work!
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July 24th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
…upon further discovery, there is also one dedicated to Stephen. :)
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July 24th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
“Fox News believes in all protesters exercising their right to free speech including Nas who has an album to promote.”
They really just keep showing their class over and over, don’t they?
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July 24th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
AlterNet posted a glowing response to the piece (the poster was actually involved in the petition drive, but it’s still a great review).
Also, Lincognocity — HA!
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July 24th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I watch Stephen at the Comedy Central website. I saw the episode with Nas, right up through the Nas interview, and was saving the last clip – Nas doing his rap – for later (as a reward after getting some work done).
But — what’s this! Both the interview and the song have disappeared from the website! Are people really _that_ riled by Nas? (O’Reill’d?)
Weird.
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July 24th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Oh, and the link offered above says it only works within the US — I’m in Germany.
Darn!
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July 25th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Well, nyah nyah, Comedy Central — the “Full Episodes” site still shows all segments of that show! :)
I could have watched a video of Nas’s “Sly Fox” elsewhere, of course, but I do like foiling censorship!
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July 25th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Completely OT, but since the featured video is Reisman, I just want to say that the part at the beginning – when he is doing the voice check with Mission Control / Houston — is just the ABSOLUTELY CUTEST THING in the universe when he realizes that he’s connecting in. I could watch it all day.
That is all, back to Nas :-)
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July 26th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I’m not a huge fan of rap at all, except for some early 80’s and some novelty rap. But, I thoroughly enjoyed both the interview and Nas’ performance. He may make me a fan yet. Nice work!
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