--- title: Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake Sing a History of Rap description: Justin Timberlake joined Jimmy Fallon for another installment of The History of Rap on The Tonight Show. canonical: https://time.com/4028881/jimmy-fallon-justin-timberlake-history-of-rap-6/ author: Mark Rivett-Carnac article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-10T05:17:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:29.870Z og:title: Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake Perform History of Rap 6 og:description: Fallon went all out for "Straight Outta Compton." og:url: https://time.com/4028881/jimmy-fallon-justin-timberlake-history-of-rap-6/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a81beb0943e339d/698862fe5f570f1fa3b1d4fa/screen-shot-2015-09-10-at-1-02-54-pm.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jimmy Fallon Justin Timberlake History of Rap og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake Perform History of Rap 6 twitter:description: Fallon went all out for "Straight Outta Compton." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a81beb0943e339d/698862fe5f570f1fa3b1d4fa/screen-shot-2015-09-10-at-1-02-54-pm.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake Team Up for Another Killer History of Rap by [Mark Rivett-Carnac](https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/) ## Mark Rivett-Carnac Sep 10, 2015 5:17 AM UTC  by [Mark Rivett-Carnac](https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/) ## Mark Rivett-Carnac Sep 10, 2015 5:17 AM UTC Justin Timberlake joined Jimmy Fallon for another installment of The History of Rap on _The Tonight Show_ on Wednesday. The pair started strong with R. Kelly’s and Jay Z’s hit “Fiesta” and went straight into LL Cool J’s “Rock the Bells.” Visiting some classics of the genre, Fallon did a convincing impersonation of Slick Rick’s yawn rhymes in “La Di Da Di” and went all out for “Straight Outta Compton” by N.W.A. Newer acts were welcomed, too, as Timberlake covered “My Way” by Fetty Wap and Fallon dug deep for “Bugatti” by Ace Hood. The energetic performance was the sixth volume of the duo’s rap anthology, as Fallon brings out the big guns to compete with Stephen Colbert as host of the newly revamped _The Late Show_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4028881/jimmy-fallon-justin-timberlake-history-of-rap-6/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4028881/jimmy-fallon-justin-timberlake-history-of-rap-6/"},"headline":"Watch Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake Team Up for Another Killer History of Rap","datePublished":"2015-09-10T05:17:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:29.870Z","description":"Jimmy Fallon went all out for \"Straight Outta Compton\"","url":"https://time.com/4028881/jimmy-fallon-justin-timberlake-history-of-rap-6/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Jay-z","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show","Justin Timberlake","the late show"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a81beb0943e339d/698862fe5f570f1fa3b1d4fa/screen-shot-2015-09-10-at-1-02-54-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mark Rivett-Carnac","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a81beb0943e339d/698862fe5f570f1fa3b1d4fa/screen-shot-2015-09-10-at-1-02-54-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jimmy Fallon Justin Timberlake History of Rap","caption":"Jimmy Fallon Justin Timberlake History of Rap","creditText":"","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/4028881/jimmy-fallon-justin-timberlake-history-of-rap-6/","name":"Watch Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake Team Up for Another Killer History of Rap"}}]}] ```