Stephen Colbert doesn’t really have much to do right now. He ended his nine-year run on The Colbert Report back in December and his debut as host of the Late Show is still months away, so he needs things to keep him occupied.
According to Rolling Stone, his listlessness apparently led him to usurp the Michigan-based public access show Only in Monroe where he was joined by Michigan’s favourite son, Marshall Mathers, better known to the world as Eminem.
Things get off to an awkward start, with Mathers forced to explain to Colber that while he’s a proud Michigan boy, he’s not actually from the Monroe area, and to be honest, things just get more awkward from there, particularly when they start talking music.
“So [you’re] from Detroit,” Colbert says at one point. “Who are some of your biggest musical influences? I imagine Motown, Ted Nuget [sic], obviously, Seger?” Colbert then goes on to challenge the rapper to an impromptu Bob Seger sing-off.
Other highlights include Mathers’ feelings about Will Smith and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, the meaning of “feat.” on a rap song, and why the rapper feels as though he exists in “the crack” of the hip-hop world, which Colbert describes as a “steamy place to be”.
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