--- description: Judging by the audience's laughter, it very well may be Williams' greatest opus yet title: Brian Williams' Latest, Greatest Rap: 'Baby Got Back' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94ac3e480d77486e/69868bc5169ab0078d278ebd/brian-williams-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Brian Williams' Latest, Greatest Rap: 'Baby Got Back' by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 17, 2014 7:25 AM CUT  From left: News anchor Brian Williams during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on April 21, 2014. From left: News anchor Brian Williams during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on April 21, 2014.Nathaniel Chadwick—NBC/Getty Images by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 17, 2014 7:25 AM CUT Over the half-decade he’s served as a television talk-show host — first on _Late Night_ and now on _The Tonight Show —_ Jimmy Fallon has introduced a new generation to old-school hip-hop by giving the genre an unlikely mouthpiece: Brian Williams, the _NBC Nightly News_ anchor who otherwise spends his time covering presidential elections and natural disasters. By means of clever editing, which probably required some poor soul to comb through hours of news reports, the nation’s pre-eminent prime-time anchor has rapped for us Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and The Sugarhill Gang. On Monday night, Sir Mix-a-Lot joined that list. Judging by the audience’s laughter, it very well may be Williams’ finest work yet. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2888764/brian-williams-jimmy-fallon-rap-baby-got-back/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2888764/brian-williams-jimmy-fallon-rap-baby-got-back/"},"headline":"Brian Williams' Latest, Greatest Rap: 'Baby Got Back'","datePublished":"2014-06-17T07:25:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:27:14.739Z","description":"It's probably his finest work yet","url":"https://time.com/2888764/brian-williams-jimmy-fallon-rap-baby-got-back/","keywords":["Television","Comedy","NBC","jimmy fallon","Brian Williams"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94ac3e480d77486e/69868bc5169ab0078d278ebd/brian-williams-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94ac3e480d77486e/69868bc5169ab0078d278ebd/brian-williams-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"From left: News anchor Brian Williams during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on April 21, 2014.","caption":"From left: News anchor Brian Williams during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on April 21, 2014.","creditText":"Nathaniel Chadwick—NBC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2888764/brian-williams-jimmy-fallon-rap-baby-got-back/","name":"Brian Williams' Latest, Greatest Rap: 'Baby Got Back'"}}]}] ```