# NBC News's own Brian Williams does Rapper's Delight **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182 "2014-02-25T01:47:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/1 "2014-02-25T01:47:18Z")
Thanks to some clever mashing-up by Jimmy Fallon’s production crew: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCeIgt7hMs) I love this! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/2 "2014-02-25T02:34:49Z")
That was great! ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/3 "2014-02-25T02:36:32Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Thanks to some clever mashing-up by Jimmy Fallon’s production crew: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCeIgt7hMs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCeIgt7hMs) > > I love this! That was brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/4 "2014-02-25T03:41:11Z")
I’ve only listened to it a few dozen times today. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/5 "2014-02-25T04:31:14Z")
Must have more. Brian Williams Raps The Hip Hop Classics is something I’d buy tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/6 "2014-02-25T04:38:49Z")
[Straight Outta Compton](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g87Xyt2agWQ) was pretty funny, too. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/7 "2014-02-25T08:09:20Z")
I laughed and wanted to dance! ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/8 "2014-02-25T09:07:51Z")
I hope to God NBC publishes a transcript they could search through to find all the keywords. Otherwise I shudder to think how much Brian Williams some poor intern must’ve had to watch to find them all. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/9 "2014-02-25T12:23:05Z")
I loved it. Brian and Lester are both very cool. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/10 "2014-02-25T12:41:53Z")
Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/11 "2014-02-25T14:57:01Z")
Jimmy’s got a few of these, including [“Good Vibrations.”](http://youtu.be/8yr7ivVPhmY) But I gotta say, they’ve taken it to a whole new level on the Tonight Show with “Rapper’s Delight.” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/12 "2014-02-25T15:21:15Z")
Brian Williams was really good as an SNL host a couple of years ago. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/13 "2014-02-25T22:03:15Z")
Hilarious. About the 4th or 5th time, I danced with one of my cats. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/14 "2014-02-26T04:24:07Z")
Not to be a spoil-sport, I think they’re great, but were these \*\*\*really \*\*\*pieced together from existing footage? Cause it would have been fairly easy to just shoot a bunch of canned, fake footage to string together like that. NBC would certainly want Williams to help support the new Tonight Show, and he seems like a good sport anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-newss-own-brian-williams-does-rappers-delight/682182/15 "2014-02-26T04:46:52Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Not to be a spoil-sport, I think they’re great, but were these \*\*\*really \*\*\*pieced together from existing footage? Cause it would have been fairly easy to just shoot a bunch of canned, fake footage to string together like that. NBC would certainly want Williams to help support the new Tonight Show, and he seems like a good sport anyway. I don’t think so. Williams goes through like 30 different ties and ten different sets, and you can actually see Holt’s hair line move forward in some of the older clips. Plus I checked, and there are transcripts of NBC news, so searching for the next word they needed probably wasn’t actually that hard. Still, whatever poor editing guy got stuck putting this together probably wanted to shoot himself by the end.