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Rappers Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg carry out onstage through the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Competition in Indio, California. They’ll workforce up once more, and add Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar, for the halftime present of Tremendous Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Sunday, Feb. 113, 2022. (Photograph by Christopher Polk/Getty Photographs for Coachella)
The halftime present at Tremendous Bowl LVI on Sunday guarantees the heroes of hip-hop, legends similar to Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar.
So what ought to viewers anticipate?
For starters, with all that star energy, the 12 months guarantees maybe a couple of extra pyrotechnics than the halftime present at Tremendous Bowl I at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1967, which included two marching bands, jazz trumpeter Al Hirt, and Anaheim Excessive College’s Ana-Hello-Steppers Drill Workforce (although we wager they have been all wonderful, too).
Sunday options 5 of the largest artists in hip-hop, with three of them virtually born and raised within the yard of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, the place the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals will occupy the sector on both aspect of the halftime present.
This 12 months’s halftime present is predicted to be a really massive deal. How massive? The tender drink firm that’s sponsoring the present sparked an enormous buzz a couple of weeks in the past with the discharge of a splashy cinematic trailer.
In it, Dre moved items on a three-dimensional chessboard, summoning Kendrick, Mary, Snoop and Em to Los Angeles to do battle with any foolhardy mortals pondering of switching over to the Pet Bowl at halftime.
So let’s dig into the intense and the foolish of the Tremendous Bowl halftime present that we hope and anticipate to see.
Particulars stay principally underneath wraps, however this could assist get your heads across the spectacle to return.
1. Native legends: Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar have been each born and raised in Compton, and Snoop Dogg is a Lengthy Seashore native. That seemingly makes this the Tremendous Bowl halftime present with essentially the most native legends in its lineup ever.
In that tender drink advert, Lamar rides a tricked-out Stingray bicycle to SoFi. Snoop swings by the seaside in his lowrider with hydraulic jacks to offer Dre a carry. They don’t must seek the advice of Google maps to get round; that is their turf.
On this group, Dre is the chief as a result of his legendary profession – first as a member of the groundbreaking rap group NWA, later as a solo artist, producer and Beats by Dre mogul – consists of mentoring Snoop and Lamar early of their careers.
Dre featured Snoop prominently on his 1992 solo debut, “The Power,” which helped jumpstart Snoop’s personal profession a 12 months later when he debuted with “Doggystyle.”
Lamar was 8 years previous when he noticed Dr. Dre and Tupac Shakur filming a model of their “California Love” music video. Years later, Dre invited Lamar to hitch him on his never-released album “Detox,” together with Snoop, shortly earlier than Lamar launched his first correct album in 2011.
2. Visiting powerhouses: Eminem and Mary J. Blige hail from Detroit and Yonkers, New York, respectively.
Dr. Dre and Eminem have labored collectively typically on one another’s albums and songs similar to “Responsible Conscience,” “Forgot About Dre,” and “I Want A Physician.”
Dre cowrote Blige’s music “Household Affair,” and she or he’s carried out options on his songs similar to “The Message.”
3. Certain-fire songs: That is tough partly since you’ve obtained 5 artists and a finite period of time, limiting the variety of songs that can match even after they’re chopped into medleys as Tremendous Bowl acts sometimes do. However we’ll decide one for every artist, and you'll choose how we do.
Dr. Dre: “Nuthin’ However A G Thang” is a traditional “The Power” monitor, and it featured Snoop, a bonus when you must squeeze 5 performers in.
Snoop Dogg: “Drop It Like It’s Sizzling” is a enjoyable, catchy music, and excellent for the fellows and the woman to hitch in.
Mary J. Blige: “Household Affair” on Sunday will imply Mary and the fellows all jamming on this one.
Eminem: We have been pondering “Lose Your self,” however it’s a little bit darkish, so let’s go together with “Rap God,” a pleasant slice of cheerful braggadocio.
Kendrick Lamar: He does “Humble” within the halftime present trailer, however our decide is “All The Stars,” his Oscar-nominated music from “Black Panther.”
And the bonus you’re getting for the finale: “California Love,” by the late Tupac Shakur, that includes Dr. Dre, and name-checking cities all throughout the state together with Inglewood, which SoFi calls residence.
4. Mid-game playing: Certain, some folks wager on the sport, however there are additionally wagers being made on the halftime present.
Prop bets, that are wagers not related to the precise sport, cowl matters similar to which performer shall be first on stage — Dr. Dre is the favourite, adopted by Mary J. Blige — and whether or not or not there shall be greater than 8.5 songs carried out within the present.
You may wager on whether or not Eminem shall be censored throughout his efficiency and which music is prone to be performed first. “California Love,” our decide for the finale, is favored within the latter.
And, in fact, you'll be able to lay a wager on whether or not hashish connoisseur Snoop Dogg lights up through the present. Most likely not, proper? However the enjoyable cash says sure.
5. Tremendous SoCal: Southern California has hosted seven Tremendous Bowls earlier than this one, and to be frank, solely one in every of them had a halftime present to jot down residence about.
Most of them occurred within the pre-modern period of the halftime present when the NFL apparently requested no matter marching bands or middle-of-the-road jazz or pop acts cared to do it.
However the fashionable period, in pop stars, rock bands, nation singers, and ultimately hip-hop artists took over the present, arrived on Jan. 31, 1993, when Tremendous Bowl XXVII invited Michael Jackson to carry out on the Rose Bowl.
Two years later, there have been no NFL groups within the Los Angeles space, which not solely disadvantaged followers of residence video games for greater than 20 years but additionally stored us from getting good Tremendous Bowl halftime reveals till now, too.