Justin Timberlake & Jimmy Fallon Perform Hits By Kanye West, Coolio & Run-DMC

    During last night’s July 19 airing of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the NBC host and guest Justin Timberlake performed their second installment of “History of Rap.” Backed by the show’s house band The Roots, both actors, known for their comedy and singing respectively, paid homage to a number of Hip Hop classics with dancing included.

    The list including Kurtis Blow’s “The Breaks,” Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five‘s “The Message,” N.W.A.’s “Express Yourself,” Public Enemy’s “Bring The Noise,” Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock’s “It Takes Two,” Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push It,” Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” Black Sheep’s “The Choice Is Yours,” Cypress Hill’s “Insane In The Membrane,” DJ Kool’s “Let Me Clear My Throat,” DMX’s “Up In Here,” Nelly’s “Hott In Herre,” 50 Cent’s “In Da Club,” OutKast’s “Hey Ya,” Lil Wayne’s “A Milli,” DJ Khaled’s “All I Do Is Win,” Cali Swag District’s “Teach Me How To Dougie,” Rick Ross’ “Blowin’ Money Fast”  and Biz Markie’s “Just A Friend.” 

    The video is below:

    The pair first did a similar segment on Late Night in October, 2010.

    [July 20]

    UPDATE: Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon joined forces once more to do a third installment of their “History of Rap” series. Watch the latest clip below.

    25 thoughts on “Justin Timberlake & Jimmy Fallon Perform Hits By Kanye West, Coolio & Run-DMC

      1. 50 is done. He was always wack and now can’t even go platinum. Jay-Z is the king of New York if you base if off popularity, skill, and catalog. If you go just skill and catalog you could say NaS aswell.

    1. Very white and corny. But The Roots keep playing on like Minstrels for them! Money must be good!

      1. you must hate yourself. assuming the roots.. you want them to hate cause your an ignorant insecure person that is not part of the solution on planet earth.

    2. you can definitely tell that the roots organized these songs and pretty much made the entire thing god damn they can jam the fuck out.. jimmy and just timberlake are white what do yall expect the shit was sick anyway…. faggots

    3. to all you mind controlled fools mentally imprisoned saying racial bullshit are so sad and misled. its not 1992 anymore. liberate your minds. the roots arnt hating on j.t. and jimmy cause their smarter than you fools and they appreciate that jimmywants to pay homage to hip hop WAKE UP ROBOTS _YOU SOUND CLOSE MINDED, RACIST AND MAD CORNY.

    4. This was nice…I love it….Really shows how far Hip Hop has come….lets keep it rolling on…it’ll keep evolving becoming more popular

      Now I’ll be pulling out some old albums and vibing

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