Dre and Snoop teamed up for “The Next Episode” and “California Love.” It was all good from Diego to the Bay, with Dre rapping the first Liberace shout-out in Super Bowl history, while proudly updating his boast to “I been in the game for 30 years making rap tunes/Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.” Paak held it down on drums, with a guitarist rocking a fly Fender Jazzmaster.
This time, the music was front and center. Indeed, this had to be the most Gen-X Super Bowl ever: Dre, Snoop, Mary, Em, Meadow Soprano’s car commercial, Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy, Salt N Pepa, Doja Cat doing Hole’s “Celebrity Skin,” and a Bengals quarterback who looks like he’s Spiral Stairs in a Pavement tribute band.ĭre kicked it off on a beautifully sparse white sci-fi set, a contrast to last year’s halftime where the Weeknd used a flashy, busy, vertigo-inducing special effects to hide the lack of action. The whole lineup was a dream-team of rap old-schoolers, with Kendrick as the new kid on the block. It was a celebration of West Coast rap history at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, in a battle between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals. Blige, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar, and Anderson. Dre presided over an all-time great Super Bowl blowout, rocking alongside Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. The Super Bowl halftime show finally opened up to hip-hop-this was the first time the rappers got to bumrush center stage, instead of serving as a sideshow.
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