1.7K views Mar 2009
Stephen Colbert trades political rap verses with Republican leader Michael Steele, then declares Steele the winner of their satirical battle on The Colbert Report.
0:03 Hey, Mike Steele gonna steal the mic with the flow so rich it'll get a tax hike, dropping rhymes so fine they'll make you blush, and beats so fat you could call them rush. 0:13 Oh, say, can you see by your mom's ugly face we won't need Scalia to rule on this case? 0:18 The chairman is missing, call Nancy Grace, and crank up the right-wing Republican base. 0:25 You better get a voucher 'cause your rhymes are failing, your games are dying moose, and I'm Sarah Palin. 0:30 You're gonna disappear like the middle class, I'll take a penny off my loaf, put the rest up your ass. 0:50 Oh, doesn't, doesn't everyone, doesn't everyone have a pinstripe hoodie? 0:58 Now, folks, I believe I've made it clear that I got the skills to pay my children's private school bills. 1:06 And now, in accordance with hip-hop's long-standing fairness doctrine, I proudly present a hip-hop response we put together on behalf of Chairman Steel. 1:18 Jimmy, let the man spit it. 1:21 One, two, one, two, one, two, one, two. Get ready to get knocked over. 1:25 I have something to say. I'm not trying to play. Cut me a check for 25K. 1:29 You want to help the people in my state? Great. Because I'm a Republican, for goodness sake. 1:33 The economy, the war, and issues that affect the poor. Go to the streets. 1:36 That's really the, the, the heat of the meat. Bet on black, you get it done. 1:39 We got the black Republican. Grew up on 8th Street in DC. Son, I've been a Republican since I was 17. 1:45 I intend to run the RNC, go back to my base, getting up in their face. 1:50 Democrats try to mix us up and get us off track. OK, whatever, because whack. 1:55 The Democrats have got the swagger right now, swagger right now, swagger, swagger right now, whatever. 2:00 The Democrats represent deflation, stagnation, obfuscation, taxation, trifocation. 2:05 Reality check here. Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Oops, my bad. 2:09 Hush, hush. I like Rush, you know. I'm focused on the cash flow. 2:12 Create the wealth. Not a stimulus bill. It's a bad, bad bill. 2:16 Drill, baby, drill. There was a Michael Steele before there was a Barack Obama. 2:20 I'm always open to everything like your mama, like, like, like your mama. 2:23 Ha ha. But seriously, trying to force a massive spending bill, I say to that, baloney. 2:28 These numbnuts on Capitol Hill can me. 2:32 He definitely got the beat down. How you like me now? 2:51 Oh my! That was the sickest thing to drop from a Republican since Bill Bennett ate bad chili. 3:02 I can't believe I'm saying this, but Chairman Steele, you have won the rap battle. 3:07 Congratulations, sir. Give it up. 3:16 Now, it's probably for the best. I mean, let's be honest, a conservative leader like me trying to appeal to a hip-hop audience, that's insane in the membrane. 3:25 We'll be right back. 
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