Stephen Colbert Duets With Alicia Keys On 'Empire State of Mind Pt. II (Broken Down)'

As if you needed another reason to love Stephen Colbert... or Alicia Keys... Stephen Colbert stepped up to the mic last night on The Colbert Report and dropped some Jay-Z-worthy rhymes on top of Alicia Keys' performance of "Empire State of Mind Pt. II (Broken Down)."

Stephen Colbert, who rocked a righteous hoodie, dropped the following go-white-boy verses:

"Shoppin' mall is close, my community is gated/ My shorties are all private-school educated/ Home theater system, 60-inch plasma. Clean suburban air, much better for my asthma/ Still hit the city, Times Square, keep it real/ Hard Rock Cafe for the appetizer deal/ M&M Store, Disney Store, I'm in heaven/ I own this town from 41st to 47/ Take you to 'The Lion King,' that show is fantastic/ Leave half an hour early so I can beat the traffic/ I can get home really fast, driver rocks an E-Z Pass/ Land of cheaper gas and the upper middle class."

The year's almost over, but Stephen Colbert's Alicia Keys duet squeaks in at the tail-end of 2009 as one of the best collaborations of the year. (Besides Rihanna and Andy Samberg.)

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