Super Bowl Halftime Show 2022: Twitter Reacts To Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige And More

Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg opened the Expansive Bowl LVI halftime note at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles with “The Subsequent Episode” on the roof of a condo-cherish stage as a total bunch of dancers surrounded them to create a block occasion for the ages. Joined all of sudden guest 50 Cent along with Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar and Eminem, the crew paid homage to a pair of hip-hop’s largest hits.

Amid elevated tension over racial discrimination within the NFL, the stars made ancient previous as the first hip-hop act to headline The US’s largest stage. At a press conference on Thursday, Dre, whose start title is Andre Younger, wired the importance of various representation within the league and mentioned his halftime note would start doorways for extra rappers to possess the identical different. 

“Hip-hop is the largest genre of music within the sphere proper now, so it’s crazy that it took all of this—and all of this time—for us to be known,” Dr. Dre mentioned Thursday. “We’re going to fabricate it so immense that they may be able to’t swear us anymore in due course.”

And so that they did. With Dre at the helm, the lineup performed 9 iconic songs all by the put of abode at the side of 50 Cent’s “In Da Club,” Mary J. Blige’s “Family Affair” and “No More Drama,” Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” and Eminem’s “Lose Your self.” Some highlights? 50 Cent made his entrance while inserting from the ceiling. Kendrick made a nod to Dre’s tainted 2006 diss music about feeble N.W.A accomplice Eazy-E with his dancers carrying sashes that mentioned “Dre Day.” Eminem took a knee following his piece of the put of abode, after experiences that the NFL wouldn’t enable him to made headlines earlier as of late. As dancers waved sad “Compton” flags on the self-discipline under him, Dre closed the note with “Quiet D.R.E.,” at the side of the enduring lines “Quiet f*ck with the beats, unruffled no longer loving police” and “I’m representing for them gangstas all internationally.”

Younger and the remainder of the stars weren’t paid for the efficiency, although the note served as a solid launching pad for his upcoming album Casablanco with Marsha Ambrosius, which he announced he had performed in October. 

The promotion labored wonders last twelve months for The Weeknd: On the night of Expansive Bowl LV, his catalog of music equipped 36,500 copies, a 385% bounce from the 7,500 copies equipped the day prior, in step with MRC Info, and on Spotify, his streams shot up nearly 220% within the U.S. and 72% within the U.K. No longer as a lot as per week later, Are residing Nation announced that he had equipped nearly 1 million tickets to his postponed, 104-destroy After Hours world tour. 

The note also garners hundreds of social media impressions every year. Thru 9: 25 pm ET there possess been 23.6 thousand tweets pointing out the #PepsiHalftime note.