that's macklemore's premise.what's amazing is these are conversations that talib said, these are conversations that we would have, hard conversations, painful conversation, but as the first inclusive generation, these are conversations that we want to have. >> yeah. i totally agree. i think that, you know, the grammys when you look at something the scale of the grammys, anyone who's shocked at the grammys going to the most popular white rapper of the day, i have a bridge to sell you. the grammys have been extremely consistent. the last time they surprised me when they gave herb by hancock an award in '08. they've been extremely consistent in appealing to mainstream and white america. they appear to main street america way more than kendricks. it shows ignorance about hip-hop as a culture for the grammys to make that decision so cluelessly. >> i know i was brought on here specifically for my expertise in baliwood rap. i'd like to open up the conversation to you gentlemen. do you agree though that when you speak ab

mackerel plus michael moore equals macklemore. [ laughter ] >> steve: mackerel-more, macklemore.> jimmy: that's why we created the segment, to teach you guys important stuff like this. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: numbers are, like -- >> steve: numbers are old. numbers are bleh. >> jimmy: they don't understand them. >> steve: no, why would you? >> jimmy: kids can understand, like -- >> steve: kids can understand macklemore. >> jimmy: the host of "the price is right," drew carey, plus wind -- >> steve: okay, wind. >> jimmy: equals drew brees. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: friends of the show. we love drew brees. and drew carey and wind. >> steve: that's math. >> jimmy: next one starts with the company that brought us lunchables. i love me a lunchable. >> steve: sure. >> jimmy: you take oscar mayer. you add the popular singer marc anthony. it equals anthony wiener. you see what i'm saying? [ laughter and applause ] >> steve: i wish i had an oscar mayer wiener. fat kids, skinny kids. >> jimmy: now, if you take the creepy doll from the "chucky" movies and you add one of my favorite singers,

that was lovely day for a mass wedding at the grammys. 33 happy couples walked down the aisle to macklemoreend queen latifah presided. they exchanged rings and the happiest moment of their lives and some form of madonna strolled out on the stage looking like a middle aged southern pimp. (laughter) or like some type of baronest of a weird friday chicken chain. comedians, you are all fashion connoisseurs, what is a good name for this madonna look? michael somehow walter, go! >> cowboy fabulous.

we're macklemore and ryan lewis, and we're one of a kind. it's an extremely simple tool.tremely pointy. it's been used to make tentative appointments and to cheat at golf. students have used it to play ceiling darts. it's...wait a second. what's hiding behind this pencil? ahh, an ipad air. almost didn't see you back there. and what's this? hiding behind the ipad? ahh, the even thinner galaxy tab pro 10.1. interesting. not only are you thinner, your hd screen is killer for more robo beat down action. and would you look at that. the galaxy tab even does multitasking. two things on screen at once versus up to one thing on screen at once. ♪ you know what. i'm going to take this samsung galaxy tab. ♪ and i'm going to take this pencil. the thinner, higher resolution samsung galaxy tab pro 10.1. [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome back. , as you know, the -- what do you call there, the cnn news network. they've been struggling a little bit of late to find their voice. they -- sorry. they canceled their international show. they moved ashleigh banfield from 11:00 to 12:00. they

we're macklemore and ryan lewis, and we're one of a kind. >> that sour show, here it, your moment ofin not only has the upper hand from a to z, but he's enjoying himself. putin is the big bad russi >> stephen: tonight, what does the man on the street think about race in america? i don't know. i crossed it to avoid him. ( laughter ) then a surprise move from a hate group. get ready for "the aryan brotherhood of the traveling pants." and my guest, jeff goldblum, stars in the new wes anderson film "the grand budapest hotel." the interview will have a sound track of mendelssohn played on a toy xylophone. ( laughter ) the oscars are on sunday! damn! i had tuesday in the offic ( laughter ) pool. this is the the "colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central

to start their own record labels. .> remember what macklemore did and independent artists.ected to a big label. back in the day you needed to have a big record label behind you to have a big imprint. he says i want more independent guys and i will help make them much more independent stars. he wants to feature them on his channel. >> they do not have to be bad boy artist. he created it in the fall and outgoing bigger. >> what about the thing where artists are being discovered online? >> i said to him, why don't you just go to youtube, half of the people are going just to look for music. he said because you do not necessarily one to completely leave television. you watch television and i watch television. he is going to be digital and on the television network. much like magic johnson's network, there is a destination for minority owned networks. so far it has made sense for him. >> revolt part of a group of networks that comcast said they would back as part of the deal to get the nbc universal acquisition deal through. what does he want to do with revolt? more eyeballs. tha

needs to change but i think that kids use it as more pervasive than it ever was and something like macklemore really proves that it's like if you have a if you have good music you put out a good album people are going to be into it no matter what it doesn't matter if you're on and indeed as a matter if you're white and you're rapping like you know like i think that people are open to good product and good art. no you can you lead a normal life in iraq band like you have a five year old yeah. one car one kid yeah one good wife of home yeah i feel like well girlfriend but i feel like yeah i think you can lead. a relatively normal life and i think that from scene i've seen a guy like dave grohl who i'm like this guy is like the rock star of our generation and he's like a dad in the suburbs half the time you know i think it's possible to do now more than you could of like in the seventy's or eighty's i think that you were expected to be these kind of like party animals and now people are open to you don't to the hotel room not anymore so twenty three twenty three percent of americans have a piece

stories and sad and up until this year you know for the first time macklemore became a happy so-called hip hop record but that's not the case for most of commercial rap most of it is. kill and rape and paul something you've talked quite a lot about over the last year is a little of wayne's lyrics that trivialize emmett till's death a fourteen year old boy who was murdered in one nine hundred fifty s. and as a city for allegedly flirting with a white girl i mean is this just a case of ignorance or does it point to a larger problem with corporate raps reflection of black history. i mean somebody who's greenlighting the process we can point fingers a little way in the rick ross but this somebody up there in the blue suit that's really profiting off of it and those are the names that we never talk about we never talk about morris or monte lipman or jimmy ivy we always get stuck on the rappers and there's somebody that has rolled this machine put the money in and is tossed out the spare product that's really affecting a couple of generations of young kids black white purple brown every colo