It’s a rare day when Dr. Dre posts on Instagram — but Thursday (September 30) was no ordinary day. After all, the Hip Hop mogul had some important news to announce regarding the Super Bowl LVI halftime show.
According to the post, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige and Snoop Dogg have been booked to perform at the show in February 2022, bringing five Hip Hop and R&B pillars to the stage.
“I’m extremely excited to share the stage with my friends for the #PepsieHalftime show,” Dr. Dre captioned the post. “This will introduce the next saga of my career….Bigger and Better than Ever!!! @NBCSports @Pepsi @NFL @RocNation #SBLVI.”
Eminem shared the news with his 22.5 Twitter followers in synchronicity with Dr. Dre, using the same image of the five superstars together.
“Dre day in February?” he wrote. “I’m there! #PepsiHalftime Show @NBCSports @Pepsi @nfl @rocnation #SBLVI.”
Fans will notice Roc Nation is tagged in both posts, making it obvious JAY-Z played a big role in making this happen. Roc Nation signed a deal with the National Football League in 2019 to aid in the league’s social justice efforts and bolster its connections in the music industry.
As the NFL’s “live music entertainment strategist,” JAY-Z and Roc Nation serve as consultants on productions such as the Super Bowl halftime show.
“The opportunity to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime show, and to do it in my own backyard, will be one of the biggest thrills of my career,” Dr. Dre said in a statement sent to HipHopDX. “I’m grateful to JAY-Z, Roc Nation, the NFL, and Pepsi as well as Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar for joining me in what will be an unforgettable cultural moment.”
JAY-Z added, “This is the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show. This is history in the making.”
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Hov also contributes to the league’s Inspire Change initiative as part of the deal. The campaign was created after multiple players followed former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s lead by kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality.
“The NFL has a great big platform, and it has to be all-inclusive,” JAY-Z told the New York Times. “They were willing to do some things, to make some changes, that we can do some good.”
Of course, JAY-Z’s alignment with the NFL didn’t sit well with everyone considering the controversy surrounding Kaepernick and other players’ national anthem protests. But Diddy was among those who thought it was a positive step in the right direction.
“I applaud JAY-Z and I applaud the NFL for bringing him in,” he tweeted at the time. “This isn’t just about the NFL, it’s about how Black and brown people are treated daily across this country. We have to come together and make the hard decisions, nobody is going to do it for us.”
The 2022 Super Bowl will take place on February 13, 2022 at SoFi Stadium just outside Los Angeles, the home of the Rams and Chargers.
Shawn and the rest of these rich Black rappers left Kaepernick hanging out to dry. He didn’t protest for them per se, but he took a geniune stand. He articulated his position clearly. And the NFL blackballed him. And rather than stand up for the cause, all these pseudo revolutionary rappers found a way to chase a check.
But that’s to be expected. A lot of cops work security at venues and for teams. Lots of cops are ticket holders. And most coaches owners and players will STILL defend a violent cop over the average Black civilian.
I guess having a few more Black faces during the halftime shows and in the commercials is progress.
I’m so sick of tired of hearing this. Cap was not a good QB. End of story. You all just seen an opportunity to shout racism racism!! Annoying as hell.
might have to tune in to this one….
It takes 5 people who have fallen the fuck off just to headline a show. Drake by himself could rock the superbowl stage!!
#nocap
Fool
Fuck Drake. They are all better then that bitch. Drake and his auto tune mumble rap. Fucking weak.
Nyeeh….cry! Your zaddy isn’t performing ?
Just like how you fell off your mom’s womb when you were born, bitch
Just like how you fell off your mom’s womb when you were born
Slight correctiom: kendrick had always been a wack drake clone and the other 4 fell off after the early 2000’s.
#facts.
Losee
Loser*
Product of torn condom
You fucking dweeb…go listen to 21 Savage YOUNGBLOOD NBA Lil Streetz or whatever bullshit you call rap…FOH
Anybody remember the Bloodhound Gang? Are they considered Rap? maybe like nu metal or something.
They may have announce it too early But This is going to be the one of the Greatest Super bowl halftime shows ever.
This is gonna be the most legendary halftime performance. How often do you get 5 legends on the same stage like that
Theyrr all washed up. Snoop runs after any and all forms of attention, dre loves generating hype but won’t release music, eminem raps about incest and kendrick is a whiny self important hack.
Why do we need more drug black rappers singing shit music. There are other better singers in this world which would be a better show than these dip shits.
AFTERMATHH
Snoop and Mary are not aftermath you stupid mother fucker! Don’t post if you don’t know shit! Tssssss
Are you dumb… Snoop don’t have to be Aftermath you know their association, same with Mary
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I hope they have some of the young homies like Dom Kennedy and Hit Boy on stage too. They deserve this moment to shine in their city. I know they’re going to have The Game up there, and Nip would have been there if he was still alive.
Hope not. The other dudes you mentioned are cool but they aren’t on the bill. Don’t need any dumb ass rap show nonsense with every dude who ever put out a record on stage. LL Cool J came out New Year’s Eve 2020 Times Square ripped the show just him and a DJ. Just have the announced performers onstage actually performing.
They have all kinds of people come out on these Super Bowl halftimes. Just saying that they deserve the shine as the current generation putting on for LA, and Game held it down for them after the city fell off after Pac. I’d love to see Ras Kass get on that stage too because he’s been grinding all these years, but you’d probably have to get a ref for him and The Game to be on the same stage.
Agree. The announced artists is more than enough!
Guns Blazing
a woman bea ter next to a woman who got bea t, a por no movie producer & a cuck who beefed with boy bands and implanted to destroy the art because master p was given up too much game i fell sorry for ken, no one can top prince but moz el touf
White boy chill the hell out. Y’all always come on here speaking nonsense
50, the game and Xzibit should be suprise guests!
Jit did u just say guy azz drake? Gtfoh with that bullshxt
personally I feel like it’s a sell out running to perform in their halftime show after black balling Kap. I get that it’s promo for a new album so they will benefit but it just seems that these rap guys don’t have any principles other than money. Before Kap it would have been an honor now it’s just a sell out move. Dre better be getting paid for this. if I hear it’s pay to play like the last few years smh…
Need atleast an hour for the halftime show.
Ren, Yella, and an Eazy hologram for one joint at least!
Ren and yela are still alive, idiot!
You mean Yella? Not Yela. I’m pretty sure anyone reading my comment understood what I was saying. Throw Cube out there too with Ren and Yella. But, throw out an Eazy hologram too! Make sense?
Jayz – Shady, even to his family
Snoop – desperate for attention-jokers wild
Dre – builds hype never delivers music
Eminem – also desperate for attention and will even shit on his family to get it.
Kendrick-typical millenial self obsession. Most overrated of all time
I don’t see why we have to have a bunch of black rappers when there are others who are better than rap shit music drug users they don’t set a good example of good music.