JAY-Z and Nas convinced Dr. Dre for the Super Bowl Half-Time Show.
Earlier this year, Dr. Dre teamed up with Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige and 50 Cent for a historic Super Bowl halftime show at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. However, the legendary producer had doubts before performing at the event and was almost ready to pull out.
Dre now had an interview on Dolvett Quince’s Workout the Doubt podcast, where he revealed that JAY-Z and Nas were one of the reason behind him accepting to perform at the halftime show. “I was absolutely concerned about that,” he said. “I actually called a couple of close friends and said, ‘Listen, I’m gonna pull out. I’m not gonna do the show. Because I don’t know if I want that smoke. I don’t know if I want the backlash after doing the show and potentially looking like a f**king sellout or something like that.’”
He continued, “I got on the phone with Nas. He called me up and was like, ‘Yo bro’ — you know, Nas has that voice: ‘Yo bro, you gotta do it. You gotta do this. It’s gonna be so powerful for f**king Hip Hop, for the culture, for you, for L.A. and the whole nine.’ We were on the phone for like 10 minutes and he talked me into doing it. Nas and JAY-Z were big reasons why I decided to do the show.”
Dr Dre’s impression of Nas’s voice tho😂🙌 #hiphop #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/3MHN10syxf
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Just recently, their performance received multiple noms for the 2022 Emmy Awards, which is taking place in September. The group received a nomination in Outstanding Variety Special (Live), which is for the performers only. The halftime show also received other nominations like Outstanding Music Direction, Sound Mixing, Production Design and Directing.
Snoop previously said JAY-Z threatened to resign from his position as the NFL’s live music entertainment strategy unless Dr. Dre and the rest of the band performed at the Super Bowl. “We love each other,” Snoop told TIDAL in March. “Like, not secretly, like publicly, we love each other. It is what it is, so it’s like for him to go to bat for us and tell the NFL, ‘F**k that. They perform or I quit,’ that was the most gangster s**t out of everything. Then with attire and kneeling and all this … you can’t wear your gang bang s**t? JAY-Z hit me like, ‘Wear what the f**k you want to wear. Peace to the Gods.’”
Check out their performance below.
