--- description: Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal made an appearance on 'The Tonight Show' Monday to do lip-sync battle with host Jimmy Fallon title: Watch Jimmy Fallon's Epic Lip-Sync Battle With Shaq image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6cdb528c360dc69/6988c1148e0601391b469c90/gettyimages-603245082.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Jimmy Fallon's Epic Lip-Sync Battle With Shaquille O'Neal and Pitbull by [Ryan Kilpatrick](/author/ryan-kilpatrick/) ## Ryan Kilpatrick Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 4, 2017 8:43 AM CUT  Shaquille O'Neal during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on September 12, 2016. Shaquille O'Neal during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on September 12, 2016.NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images by [Ryan Kilpatrick](/author/ryan-kilpatrick/) ## Ryan Kilpatrick Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 4, 2017 8:43 AM CUT Basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal made an appearance on _The Tonight Show_ Monday night to do lip-sync battle with host Jimmy Fallon. In the latest installment of the late-night show’s [Lip Sync Battle](http://time.com/4462277/lip-sync-battles-jimmy-fallon/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined") segment, the NBA great brought Bobby Brown’s “My Prerogative” back to life with a little help from surprise guest Pitbull. Fallon opened with a rendition of House of Pain’s “Jump Around” and then struck back by impersonating Ariana Grande and John Legend at the same time while lip syncing the title track from _Beauty and the Beast_. In spite of Fallon’s best efforts, however, Shaq still emerged victorious thanks to a new first for the show: a final duet between the host and his challenger. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4724217/jimmy-fallon-lip-sync-battle-shaq/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4724217/jimmy-fallon-lip-sync-battle-shaq/"},"headline":"Watch Jimmy Fallon's Epic Lip-Sync Battle With Shaquille O'Neal and Pitbull","datePublished":"2017-04-04T08:43:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:11:08.737Z","description":"Shaq made an appearance on The Tonight Show to do lip-sync battle with host Jimmy Fallon","url":"https://time.com/4724217/jimmy-fallon-lip-sync-battle-shaq/","keywords":["Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6cdb528c360dc69/6988c1148e0601391b469c90/gettyimages-603245082.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Kilpatrick","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-kilpatrick/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6cdb528c360dc69/6988c1148e0601391b469c90/gettyimages-603245082.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 3","caption":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 3","creditText":"NBCU Photo Bank/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/4724217/jimmy-fallon-lip-sync-battle-shaq/","name":"Watch Jimmy Fallon's Epic Lip-Sync Battle With Shaquille O'Neal and Pitbull"}}]}] ```