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I thought it was great. And now I'm gonna watch it again.

Once again: Fuck you Hulu!

Youtube came through in the end. That was pretty good thanks to a kick-ass house band. Everything was good except for Soulja Boy. They could have found a much better option than that tripe.

Fallon tries. Otoh, Fallon has The Roots as his house band.

So that's offsetting penalties and no yards gained.

What.. no Nas?

Why do I feel so guilty for enjoying that as much as I did?

watching them both drop right into the snoop bounce just made my day. immensely.

That was way cool. :)

i dunno... i'm gonna have to come down on the 'nay' side of this one - any one else notice the looks on the faces of the Roots? like they couldn't believe that this is what their careers have come to - playing back up to a couple of crackers "who grew up with hip hop", a couple of crackers butchering their heritage in front of a bunch of other crackers 90% of whom have no idea what's going on and are just really stoked that they got on TV.

the most telling moment of this came at the very beginning of the clip when Jimmy asked Justin if he grew up with hip hop. Justin replied that, of course he did and mentioned that they, NSYNC, even invited the Sugarhill Gang to open for them once, because that is what white people think is the history of rap - the Sugarhill Gang and Rapper's Delight. the sad irony here is that the Sugarhill Gang is to rap what NSYNC is to pop: a record company created band meant to cash in on a fad. true story.

before Rapper's Delight was released, no one in the Brooklyn or Queens or Bronx hip hop world had ever heard of Wonder Mike, Big Bank Hank or Master Gee, mostly because these three clowns were from fucking Englewood, New Jersey, and had never set foot in a club in Queens or on a street corner in Brooklyn and picked up a mic. they were called the Sugarhill gang because that was the name of the record label, not because they grew up in Harlem.

if this was meant as a tribute to the history of rap, where was the Kurtis Blow, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, Spoonie Gee, Rakim or KRS-One?

this was a tribute to major label rap that white suburban kids grew up listening to in the 90's and it was pretty lame.

One thing I learned from this: Timberlake does a pretty amazing Snoop Dogg.

That was fun to watch.

And the reason they didn't do any Nas/Wu-Tang/Public Enemy/etc. etc. is because there would be no crowd reaction, they just picked the most famous songs and went with the most recognizable verses.

And Soulja Boy? Talk about the turd in the punch bowl, jesus fucking christ.

"This must be how Indians feel when skim milk schoolteachers tell students about the history of the first Thanksgiving."

People from India probably wouldn't feel this way - but Native Americans might.

I realize that and appreciate that Pajiba is the haven for highly intelligent, often cranky, often downright curmudgeonly individuals who's superiority is often unmatched among the denizens of the vast Interwebs. This population makes this site a unique oasis of snark amongst an otherwise, blasted wasteland of up-skirt photos, shameless self-promotion, mug shots, faux rehabs, and douches who think Christina Hendricks is fat. The unique intelligence on this site can be brought to bear on any topic, often making the mundane detritus of one's daily ingestion of shit-sandwich somehow more fraught with meaning, signifying greater mysterious of wonder or injustice.

That being said, sometimes shit's just fun, lighten up.

Oh. My. God. Get your head out of your asses. It was fun, light hearted, and not supposed to be a documentary on the history of hip hop. And seriously, "crackers"? Go fuck yourself.
PS I happen to like both Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake. And I don't apologize for enjoying mainstream hiphop when it's good. But I'm a cracker so what the hell can you expect.
Go crawl back under your rock.

Timberlake is a ubiquitous cancer from which there is no escape.
Rap is total dog shit. Thank god it's dying.
Posted by: JS at October 1, 2010 7:09 AM

LOL, I have no idea where to begin with how wrong this comment is.

Well I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as the skit pictured above, with which I was lured to read this post.

If you wanna see Fallon and Timberlake pay homage to true white people music, check out any of their Barry Gibb Talk Show clips. You *might* just find Justin Timberlake funny.

Talkin it up...
on the barry gibb talk show..
talkin bout issues.
talkin bout real important issues.
Talkin it up....
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This is amazing. Way to go, Jimmy with your own show! (and at "rich diculous": check this out: http://www.ghettophysics.com)
aaand ... what's wrong with hulu???

Power Struggles.....I saw a few clips of the film so far Ghetto Physics http://www.ghettophysics.com and found this in some of the literature on the film that I found really interesting. William H. Arntz who directed What The Bleep Do We Know, and Brown’s decision to utilize the Pimp and Ho metaphor for the film, explain, “We don’t formally refer to power interaction in say politics or economics as a game. But this is exactly what is taking place — using the language of the street is a very simplified way of describing such power dynamics.” Brown continues, GhettoPhysics.com helps you become more aware of it and play it from a position of personal power. The themes of empowerment and hope emerge, creating awareness of “the game” while empowering individuals to choose the role they play in every situation. The other cool thing is KSR-One and Ice T in it. Opened my eyes to a lot of crap going on to everyone.

Shake it up, shake it up...its about time we started questioning all the bullsh*t they've been feeding us. GhettoPhysics is keeping it real, bringing it to back to basics, back to the streets, to show us how screwed up the game's gotten. Its not about black and white, its about pimp and whore, master and slave...so which one are you?? It's about power, people, lets take it back