HBO Goes All in on Hip-Hop Promo with 'Rappers as Game of Thrones Characters'

“…he is an a$$hole but is also very good at business and things…”

Did you hear that HBO wants to “diversify” the Game of Thrones audience? It’s true—and they didn’t stop at the mix tape.

In order to push the hip-hop/GoT connection as far as it can possibly go, the network’s promo team enlisted writer/watercolorist/man about town Shea Serrano to re-imagine top rappers as GoT characters on…

MySpace “Discover”. (It’s a thing.)

Go ahead and laugh, but Serrano definitely hit the mark on some of these.

While we might question Kanye’s business savvy, he is indeed an a$$hole just like Littlefinger (who will always be Mayor Tommy Carcetti to us).

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