NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams has, yet again, had clips of his news reports edited to make it sound like he was rapping a hiphop classic on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. And of all the bands in all the world to parody, N*ggas With Attitudes was both the least, and most, expected of them all.

NWA’s ‘Straight Outta Compton’ was released in 1988 on their debut album of the same name and very nearly immediately became the centerpiece for a new era in rap and hiphop. Using the gritty stories of its group members, the song became a megaphone shouting to all the world the problems of urban ghettos in Los Angeles and, in many ways, the rest of the United States as well.

Brian Williams grew up in a well to do household. And as of 2006 it is rumored that he earned around $10 million in annual salary hosting the news. In 2013 we can assume he’s earning significantly more. He, in no way, embodies the upbringing or lifestyle that gave birth to ‘Straight Outta Compton’ nor has he ever pretended to. Yet, here lies this parody putting two of the most unlikely characters in humor together for a worldwide audience.

 

 

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