Jimmy Fallon has turned Brian Williams from respected NBC news anchor into respected rapper in the hip-hop community. In another brilliant Tonight Show music piece to have gone viral , Jimmy Fallon put together a rap mash-up of Brian Williams clips set to the hit 1994 Snoop Doggy Dogg song Gin and Juice .
Williams took his latest rap mash-up in stride, but wanted to clear the air about certain aspects of the viral videos:
“Every night I’m downstairs doing the broadcast that pays for your hobby,” Williams deadpans, “and people think I’ve somehow colluded into the making of these videos. Let’s be clear…I’ve never said ‘hippity.’
Brian continued to explain the ramifications of these rap mash-ups to Jimmy:
“Thursday I took my son to the Rangers playoff game and Cuba Gooding Jr. comes up to me and says you are a huge figure in the rap and hip-hop community.”
Fallon and his Tonight Show audience were left in stitches during the entirety of the interview thanks to Williams’ delivery of his reactions. Brian even elaborated on how the conception of these videos kind of freaks him out a bit:
“This is spooking me out because there’s a guy, whose job for months has been sitting in an editing room looking at images of me and finding individual words. I’ve never said ‘hippity.’ Never! I know that he works here and I have never met him. If you’re on my staff, I know your hopes, your fears, your dreams and I know all about your family. Your staff, I imagine, is a much more anonymous place.”
Williams also displayed a far reaching knowledge of hip-hop when he asked Jimmy for more input in the next mash-up he puts together:
“I’d like some pride of authorship. What about some pre-hearing loss Foxy Brown. What about…any Luda?”
“You mean Ludacris?” Jimmy Fallon blurts back.
This is not the first time Fallon and Williams have collaborated – willing or not – to create these viral mash-ups. Their previous collaboration, a mash-up of the 1979 hit song Rappers Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang, “did 8.6 million hits on YouTube,” Fallon revealed to Williams. “I think it’s because we had a cameo from Lester Holt.”
“I had reservations about Lester,” Williams joked. “It’s because of his flow.”
Holt meanwhile does indeed make a second appearance in the Gin and Juice mash-up as does other NBC Nightly News team contributors Natalie Morales and Richard Engel who back Brian during the chorus.
You can watch the latest Jimmy Fallon-Brian Williams Tonight Show rap mash-up of Gin and Juice here:
