Drake Shoutout Game of Thrones During Billboard Speech

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock (10225918w) Drake accepts the top billboard 200 album award for “Scorpion” at the Billboard Music Awards, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas 2019 Billboard Music Awards – Show, Las Vegas, USA – 01 May 2019

Tonight Billboard Music Awards was filled with a lot of huge moments. One of the nights biggest moment came in the acceptance speech for Top Billboard 200 Album by Drake who mentioned HBO’s Game of Thrones.

Winning for his 2018 album, Scorpion, Drizzy thanked the usual suspects and made a surprising reference to actress Maisie Williams’ character Arya Stark who performed an instantly iconic moment for the show on Sunday night (April 29).

“Shout out to Arya Stark for putting in that work last week,” he praiseed.

In the show’s final season, Sunday’s episode was the most-tweeted about in TV history with 7.8 million posts. It also broke records for the most-viewed episode in the HBO series’ history.

Drake’s latest album, Scorpion, is available now via OVO/Cash Money/Universal.