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Nas Plays Rush on Rock Band Backstage at Colbert

ccinsider.comedycentral.com — The world is still reeling from last week's video of Rush playing Tom Sawyer on Rock Band backstage at The Colbert Report, but the ante has already been upped. It's Nas playing Tom Sawyer on Rock Band backstage at Colbert. Will we see Toby Keith playing a Nas song on Rock Band next week?

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  • maxownz, on 07/30/2008, -21/+9"Rappers on Rock Band" web series to follow? I challenge Lil' Wayne!
    • cawpin, on 07/31/2008, -8/+9Challenge to what? Grow some talent?
      • luet, on 07/31/2008, -2/+2thank you cawpin that was an excellent way to start my morning
    • talkart, on 07/31/2008, -1/+0How dose it feel to use a comment twice, and on top of that you took it from johnOfcanada.
      • tdlrali, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1If you look at the time and date of the two posts, you will realize that maxownz posted first, dumbass.
  • ast16, on 07/30/2008, -15/+6Your favorite rapper's favorite video game rapper.
  • jeffstevens199, on 07/30/2008, -15/+2im soo glad NAS knows how to play rockband!
  • LucciX, on 07/30/2008, -16/+7NAS killed it! i've never seen anyone play so well. And of course Getty can't hit the high notes anymore... they're SO HIGH. i'm not even sure Alicia Keys could hit them.
    • dhVyse, on 07/31/2008, -2/+5He obviously wasn't playing what they kept on showing us on the tv..
  • Kavalier, on 07/30/2008, -14/+1Please tell me he's going to do Crosby Stills and Nash next...
  • HeDiggMe, on 07/30/2008, -17/+3Few things are as amusing as rappers doing non-gangsta things. Now I wanna see Nate Dogg sing some Sinatra.
  • Andrwmorph, on 07/30/2008, -15/+3Sweet! I'm better at Rockband than Nas! Too bad I'm not better at being a famous rapper.
  • fireashes, on 07/31/2008, -16/+3If you are a musician then you are required to know how the music works. Its not the practice that makes them perfect. Its the knowledge of the music that they makes them prefect. I am not surprised by it.

    But
    All said, its good to see that.
  • ericthegreat, on 07/31/2008, -14/+4Whoopee ***** do.
  • WiretapStudios, on 07/31/2008, -13/+4'Snuck a guitar on the island in my army jacket lining'
    • WiretapStudios, on 07/31/2008, -4/+3Oh I forgot nobody knows Nas lyrics.
      • bot001220, on 07/31/2008, -1/+2False. Your "joke" just wasn't that funny.
  • EpicSelekta, on 07/31/2008, -12/+4I think that Stevie Ray Vaughn playing a Nas song would be the best.

    Actually, Stevie Ray Vaughn playing anything would be newsworthy.
    • OiPunk, on 07/31/2008, -1/+0Especially seeing as he has a severe case of death?
  • ogre2112, on 07/31/2008, -11/+1Rush playing Rush on rock band. Haha good stuff.
  • mttyd, on 07/31/2008, -13/+6Clicked this link thinking it was about Network Attached Storage.... (:
  • darny, on 07/31/2008, -13/+4>>Will we see Toby Keith playing a Nas song on Rock Band next week?

    probably not.
  • Pixelpaws, on 07/31/2008, -17/+8Nas? Who?
    • ManoWar, on 07/31/2008, -9/+2he is the rapper that uses ***** is every song
    • iPoul, on 07/31/2008, -3/+0Great clue, now he only needs to sort through the last hundred thousand rappers.
  • DanBoodro, on 07/31/2008, -12/+2He kinda sucked...bad
    • Ouhei, on 07/31/2008, -4/+3Yeah, 95% on expert is pretty terrible...
      • DanBoodro, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1Dude, that was not expert...that was nowhere near expert.
      • veriix, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1expert lol
      • radsprack, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1Yeah that video was faked pretty hardcore. I'm pretty sure he wasn't playing with anyone else...which would make him the "Player 2" that your 95% comes from.
    • thedevil1286, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1Im sorry to say it but thats a pretty easy song...like a 99% on a bad round kind of song
  • boberto, on 07/31/2008, -9/+1Rock Band Nerd comment in 3... 2... 1...

    There is no way that was expert difficulty. It was clearly medium.
    • scrubadub, on 07/31/2008, -0/+11You fail as a rockband nerd, did you not see the fifth note being used? That means it was at least on hard.
      • boberto, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1I didn't see the fifth note used a single time... perhaps I didn't pay attention though.
      • 1773nium, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Did you watch the vid at all? Every screen shown has the fifth note. Just cos you didnt see Nas who obviously wasnt even playing hit it doesnt mean anything.
    • bot001220, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1You're a Rock Band nerd but your name is from that Venezuelan TV show? You, my friend must be a freakin' weirdo.
  • monicaandreescu, on 07/31/2008, -10/+2i was there.. nice performance
  • DanBoodro, on 07/31/2008, -11/+3And the graveyard begins
  • Mullinsmcd, on 07/31/2008, -8/+21He didnt actually play. Either it was bad editing or it cut away to someone else playing on a harder difficulty.
    • nbcaffeine, on 07/31/2008, -1/+9Yeah, it looked like he was playing easy/med and the person playing on the screen was playing hard.
      • Rippleeffect, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3And he was totally off on the buttons. Most of the time he was sticking to red and green, but orange and blue was being played on screen.

        Then they showed expert at the end. Definately not expert
    • ZenMojo, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1It wasn't "bad" editing. It's single camera shooting. There's no possible way to match the footage up accurately. I can't digg you up, not for your observations, but because there's no way to prove your point and NAS being good at Rock Band isn't that big of a stretch.
  • Azohko, on 07/31/2008, -11/+3Is thier a secret league of thumbs downers?
    Or if you tell me will you have to kill me?
  • Kcaj, on 07/31/2008, -13/+1AIt would be hilarious to see dem crackas (AKA Whitey McWhiterson) spitting a rap... more than likely drooling it, as it takes a very cunning linguist to be good at the art of rapping. As much as everybody loves to bash it... it takes an equal amount of skill to guitar as it does to rap, drums, bass, etc.; those who are good, are good and those who sucks hopefully will burn in Hell for a thousand years and get ass raped constantly (Nickelback I hope suffers this fate). Otherwise, you know... I forgot what I was trying to say.
    • thedevil1286, on 07/31/2008, -1/+5....I dont think rapping in the day and age of Lil Jon and the likes of him compares to playing an instrument....especially since they generally dont even make their oh so basic beats.....
      • radsprack, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1Isn't the day and age of Lil Jon, oh, three years ago? I think we might have slipped back into the day and age of Snoop Dogg or something.
      • Kcaj, on 07/31/2008, -3/+1Rappers and producers alike... if it is "so easy" and simplistic, why isn't everybody a famous rapper?

        Oh, that's right. Showing you (through your ears) the simplicity of music and timing is something you can't point forward or backward at (mainstream, anyway). So as "dumb" as these guys are, they are twice as innovative.

  • d3dm, on 07/31/2008, -8/+3Is Toby Keith scheduled to be on Colbert next week? Heck I might actually watch the show if that's true.
  • fuckingusername, on 07/31/2008, -9/+4 now play chase the dragon
  • abdo, on 07/31/2008, -8/+2Now why are most of comments acclaiming Nas thumbed down?
  • hooleydooley, on 07/31/2008, -7/+2I don't own Rockband, but I've played it a few times and...isn't he playing with a GH guitar?
    • pudds, on 07/31/2008, -1/+5He could be, they're compatible.
    • Synn, on 07/31/2008, -1/+2My brother actually owns that model GH guitar...and I can confirm that it does work with Rock Band.
  • n3demonic, on 07/31/2008, -8/+3I used to think that comment graveyards were some vast conspiracy created by this small group of people to digg down comments. I looked through each of these comments and they ALL SUCK. Penis.
  • pudds, on 07/31/2008, -2/+37Rush played Tom Sawyer.
    Nas played Tom Sawyer.
    Toby Keith to play Nas next week?

    The author clearly fails at pattern extrapolation.
    • towjam, on 07/31/2008, -0/+4keep in mind, he "didn't graduate in the top of [his] class at Harvard Blog School to" not be able to extrapolate patterns....thats for sure.
  • n3tfury, on 07/31/2008, -9/+4just because you can play a song on rock band it does not make you a musician.
    • krisscofield, on 07/31/2008, -2/+4Woah! Captain Obvious, when did you get here...?
    • DrunkenMick, on 07/31/2008, -1/+10Just because you can troll Digg comments does not make you cool.
    • Synn, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2I'm sorry...where did it state that it did that you felt the need to make that comment?

      Oh...that's right...it didn't. You're just an ass.
      • DrunkenMick, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1This
        "..where did it state that it did that you felt the need to make that comment?"
        made my brain hurt.
  • sanderscm2, on 07/31/2008, -7/+1Uhhh...Is Nas even on Rock Band?
  • mbourgon, on 07/31/2008, -9/+2Who or what is Nas, and why should I (or anybody) care?
  • Vindicoth, on 07/31/2008, -5/+9Fake.
  • gaapgod, on 07/31/2008, -10/+2LINK. DIRECTLY. TO. THE. VIDEO!
  • IShouldBeWorkin, on 07/31/2008, -5/+3You dont think I got playstation? Im rich. Im rich bitch!
  • ThinkRad, on 07/31/2008, -6/+1I play a lot of Rock Band and gotta say, that looked suspiciously like Hard and not Expert. Expert scrolls faster and has a little bit more involved chord structure for that song. With that out of the way, Nas' new album is *****. If you like hip hop at all, go get it now.
    • ziffel, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2That was definitely Hard mode. Hard mode is all I play on, and I know that note chart well. It was faked.
  • shagg187, on 07/31/2008, -7/+5So umm.... Non-US link?
  • markgl, on 07/31/2008, -5/+1how has the ante be upped by nas playing rush? i think the ante has hot rock bottom.
  • BXRWXR, on 07/31/2008, -11/+6What the heck is a NAS?
    • thatsbologna, on 07/31/2008, -3/+7If that's the case, you need to get out more.

      But since you obviously posted that to try and make other diggers laugh, you're a loser. You're ignorant towards rap, then join in on conversations, giving your (completely biased and ignorant) opinion when clearly you know nothing about the music.
    • heresy_fnord, on 07/31/2008, -2/+8Network Attached Storage
    • pr0t0, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Not sure why you are being dugg down...I had no idea either. Judging by the other comments, I'm assuming it's a rapper or hip hop artist.

      I listen to lots of music, but none of it is hip-hop or rap. That's by design because I don't care for that type of music. Since I don't listen to radio stations (traditional, online, etc.) that play that type of music, and since I'm not twelve and do not watch MTV, I'd have no way of encountering this artist.

      I like how thatsbologna suggests you get out more. If he'd (she'd?) get out more, they would understand that everyone in the world does not have the same musical tastes that they do.
    • thatsbologna, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Ok, Nas is one of the most well known rappers on earth. My grandmother probably knows who Nas is.

      I don't listen to rock, but I can guarantee I'd recognize the most famous rock star/group's name when I saw it.
  • lkeg56demn, on 07/31/2008, -6/+1Isn't that a guitar hero controller? I thought the two games were incompatible with each others instruments...
    • sinfony, on 07/31/2008, -2/+1It is. They are.
    • VideoGameMatt, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2That was the Guitar Hero 2 control. They must have been using a 360 because for some reason guitar hero controls work for rock band on 360 but not ps3.
    • Prayformojo777, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3The PS3 is incompatible - the 360 GH guitars work for Rock Band.
  • Cornfedhusker, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1"Just let the dirt shower over you."
  • n3tfury, on 07/31/2008, -2/+1u mad?
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