Eminem Sticks It To NFL In Super Bowl Halftime Show; ‘8 Mile’ Rapper Takes A Knee During Hip-Hop Heavy Concert – Review

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Hip-hop finally headlined the Super Bowl halftime today and Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J Blige, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar came loaded for bear to represent.By the time the white boy born Marshall Mathers took a knee in an unspoken salute to Colin Kaepernick’s stance against racism and police violence, it was clear that this was not your Grandad’s classic rock show and tell.In fact, looks like the NFL just got tackled on its big day by five icons who decided not to play ball.The Next Episode. #PepsiHalftime pic.twitter.com/nuN5PXBYe1— NFL (@NFL) February 14, 2022Kicking off with 1999 tune “The Next Episode” and a chant from now Death Row Records owner Snoop for the West Coast “to make some noise,” it was all California Love, literally and figuratively on the field for the much anticipated show Exactly 26 years after Tupac Shakur’s iconic All Eyez on Me album was released, the Dre produced tune had Inglewood’s jam packed SoFi Stadium on their feet and a “Family Affair” and “No More Drama” bedazzling Mary J, Lamar and then Eminem kept the fans pumped to the beat.Over 50 years after the now most popular musical genre in the world was born in the Bronx, N.W.A.

alum Dre promised surprises leading into this weekend and the Grammy winner and crew delivered with protégé 50 Cent bringing 2003 banger “In da Club” to the daytime party.

Yet, despite a rousing version of his 2016 “Alright” hit from Lamar, the nostalgia leaning show initially looked like it was going to veer more VH-1 than MTV generationally.However, by the time, Eminem popped up to unleash his Oscar winning Lose Yourself from 2002’s 8 Mile with help from Anderson Paak on drums and then go down on one knee as Dre tellingly played Tupac’s “I Ain’t Aad at Cha,” it was