--- title: Game of Thrones: Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show Rap Recap description: A "Tonight Show" fan missed the jaw-dropping reveal on last week's "Game of Thrones" and sought help from Jimmy Fallon canonical: https://time.com/4311002/game-of-thrones-recap-jimmy-fallon-roots/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-28T15:40:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:56.139Z og:title: Here's The Only 'Game of Thrones' Recap You Need og:description: Rapped spoilers ahead og:url: https://time.com/4311002/game-of-thrones-recap-jimmy-fallon-roots/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17e8c04131291170/69889111ab6d77df336a9779/tariq-trotter-black-thought-game-of-thrones-recap.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Martell Vanguard Experience Concert Featuring The Roots og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's The Only 'Game of Thrones' Recap You Need twitter:description: Rapped spoilers ahead twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17e8c04131291170/69889111ab6d77df336a9779/tariq-trotter-black-thought-game-of-thrones-recap.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's The Only Game of Thrones Recap You Need by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 28, 2016 3:40 PM UTC  Black Thought performs in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 9, 2016. Black Thought performs in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 9, 2016.Prince Williams—WireImage/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 28, 2016 3:40 PM UTC A _Tonight Show_ fan missed the [jaw-dropping reveal](http://time.com/4306654/melisandre-old-age-game-of-thrones/?iid=sr-link10) on last week’s _Game of Thrones_ and sought help from Jimmy Fallon. Fallon, though, didn’t think he could handle the pressure of recapping the entire [season premiere](http://time.com/4307764/game-of-thrones-season-6-premiere-breaks-new-record-for-show/?iid=sr-link3) in under a minute. Luckily he knew someone who was up to the task—The Roots’ Black Thought. Black Thought (a.k.a. Tariq Trotter) had no problem spitting out a recap, which, yes, includes spoilers. “Hey yo, it opens on Jon Snow, who died at the end of season 5; Lady Melisandre still thinks he’s alive,” he rapped, running through the episode’s entire plot, including everything from Arya’s eyesight to the goings on in Dorn to Theon Greyjoy’s and Sansa Stark’s adventures, and the Khaleesi’s whereabouts, before blurting the big finale: “Then Red Lady took the choker off, brother / A-hickey hickey hickey, she’s old as a mother.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4311002/game-of-thrones-recap-jimmy-fallon-roots/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4311002/game-of-thrones-recap-jimmy-fallon-roots/"},"headline":"Here's The Only Game of Thrones Recap You Need","datePublished":"2016-04-28T15:40:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:56.139Z","description":"Rapped spoilers ahead","url":"https://time.com/4311002/game-of-thrones-recap-jimmy-fallon-roots/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","Music","The Tonight Show","The Roots","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17e8c04131291170/69889111ab6d77df336a9779/tariq-trotter-black-thought-game-of-thrones-recap.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17e8c04131291170/69889111ab6d77df336a9779/tariq-trotter-black-thought-game-of-thrones-recap.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Martell Vanguard Experience Concert Featuring The Roots","caption":"Black Thought performs in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 9, 2016.","creditText":"Prince Williams—WireImage/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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4311002/game-of-thrones-recap-jimmy-fallon-roots/","name":"Here's The Only Game of Thrones Recap You Need"}}]}] ```